Trends in VET: Challenges and perspectivesMihaylo MilovanovitchOECD Directorate for Education

4th meeting of SEEVET-NetChisinau, 11 July 2011

%

1. Excluding ISCED 3C short programmes 2. Year of reference 2004

3. Including some ISCED 3C short programmes 3. Year of reference 2003.

Why VET?

Trends for VET demandThe changing world of skill supply

Why VET?

Trends for VET demand

• Economics

– Competitiveness pressure and skills

• Occupational mobility – no jobs for life

BUT

• VET – neglected reform area• No common definition/typology• Competitive pressure from higher education

Why VET?

Trends for VET demand

Pressure

Declining/stagnating enrollments

UK 02-07 Korea 90-05 Hungary 60-06

Czech Republic 98-08 Chile 90-07

Pressure

Tertiary educational attainment of 25-64 population (%)

OECD (2008): Higher Education 2030, Vol. 1 Demography

Pressure

Projected Tertiary Enrolments in 2025 under Recent Trends (2005=100)

OECD (2008): Higher Education 2030, Vol. 1 Demography

Pressure

Demographic Shape of Tertiary Education in the Future

Source: OECD (2009)

Graduate education

Continuing education

First degreeFirst degree

Graduate education

Continuing education

WHAT TO DO?

INCREASE RELEVANCE

• Classical recommendation: Meet labour market needs

– Improve co-ordination with employers– Hire better teachers– Create shared public private funding models– Provide workplace training; the dual model

BUT

There are additional possibilities

Relevance

• Mainstreaming of VET and better system integration

– Pathways for easier entry and exit

Relevance

• NQFs• Credit-based assessment systems• All of the above - combined with good career

guidance

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• «Professionalisation» of the system and the academic curriculum

Relevance

GENERAL EDUCATION

HIGHER EDUCATION

VET and PROF.EDUCATION

VET&PE

VET&PE

• Use the potential of schools, school types, and principals

– Raise school profile: the FACHHOCHSCULE story

– Serving regional and micro-level needs

– Creating conditions for entrepreneurial operation

Relevance

Thank you!

mihaylo.milovanovitch@oecd.org

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