Traduction de «Formazione professionale » (Italien → Anglais) :

‘vocational training’ means any form of initial vocational education or training, including technical and vocational teaching and apprenticeships, which contributes to the achievement of a vocational qualification recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State in which it is obtained, as well as any continuing vocational education or training undertaken by a person during his or her working life.

The two levels correspond to regulated courses of study of a total duration of at least 15 years which require the successful completion of eight years of elementary education followed by four years of intermediate preparatory vocational education (VMBO), and which require at least three years' level 3 or 4 training at a college for intermediate vocational training (MBO), culminating in an examination (The average duration of vocational training may be reduced from three to two years where the student has a qualification required to enter university (14 years of prior training) or to enter higher vocational education (13 years of prior t ...[+++]raining)).

master in vocational education ("majster odbornej výchovy"), which represents education of a total duration of at least 12 years, comprising 8 years of basic education, 4 years of vocational education (complete vocational secondary education and/or apprenticeship in the relevant (similar) vocational training or apprenticeship course), professional experience of a total duration of at least 3 years in the field of the person's completed education or apprenticeship and supplementary pedagogical study at the faculty of pedagogy or at the ...[+++] technical universities, or complete secondary education and apprenticeship in the relevant (similar) vocational training or apprenticeship course, professional experience of a total duration of at least 3 years in the field of the person's completed education or apprenticeship, and additional study of pedagogy at the faculty of pedagogy, or by 1 September 2005 specialised education in the field of special pedagogy provided for in the methodology centres for masters in vocational education at the special schools without supplementary pedagogical study.

(2) Over the forty years since its creation, the Advisory Committee on Vocational Training provided the Commission with opinions on vocational training issues, including opinions on communications and other strategic documents, on specific undertakings such as the establishment of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, and on the preparation, evaluation and optimisation of Community action programmes in the field of vocational training.

According to recent figures published in the Greek press, the vast majority (35%) of Community education and training programmes in Greece are carried out by only 4% of the vocational training centres certified by the competent ministry to carry out measures funded by the European Social Fund. There is therefore concern that underutilisation of the other vocational training centres will affect the quality of the services they provide.

3. Points out that there is perhaps a danger of overlap between the work of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Training Foundation; recalls that the work of the European Training Foundation has been financed, to an important degree, through PHARE, TACIS and TEMPUS programmes; calls for the evaluation to assess the existing co-operation between the agencies and to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of a merger between the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Training Foundation, takes the view, however, that before examining the possible merger of the Europ ...[+++]ean Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Training Foundation, the Commission must first have at its disposal and study the conclusions and proposals of the external evaluation of both agencies, a procedure which is still underway;