Workplace Learning Statistics Infographic 2014

It's 2 years old but I suspect still very relevant. It would be interesting to see how te stats have moved over the past 2 years.

http://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/resource-centre/content/online-learners-workplace-learning-statistics-infographic

In support of Adult Learners’ Week 2014 Virtual College put together the Workplace Learning Statistics Infographic to share some stats on workplace learning.

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Resource Link(s): 

Online Learners Workplace Learning Statistics Infographic(link is external)

Resource Author(s): 

Virtual College

Publication Date:

Friday, 15 July, 2016

Copyright Status:

• No cost. Freely available to download.

Themes:

• Learning Environments

Type of resource:

• Studies and Reports

Country:

• United Kingdom

Tags:

• Adult learning
• Education or training
• Employability
• Learning environments
• NSS UK
• Workplace training

Partnerships between educators and businesses in Europe

George Holt

Partnerships between educators and businesses was the central theme of my recent study tour in Europe. Finland and Austria do an amazing job with workplace learning, in fact the vast majority of students have to do work placements as a part of their vocational or University qualifications.
This is a great opportunity for Australia to learn from the European experience and encourage more workplace learning. The business and employability advantages are huge!

http://ec.europa.eu/epale/en/theme/resources/19483

Recognizing non-formal and informal competences

European countries need a binding validation system for non-formally or informally acquired competences to establish equal opportunity on the employment market and utilize the potential of refugees. Seven European countries have demonstrated how such systems can be designed.

https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/our-projects/weiterbildung-fuer-alle/projektnachrichten/study-on-validation-of-competences-released-in-brussels/

eCoP meeting - Guest Presenter George Holt, Head of Department Information Technology https://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/iitaa/

eCoP meeting - Guest Presenter George Holt, Head of Department Information Technology https://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/iitaa/

In this session George will report on his recent five week study tour to Europe and draw comparisons to identify opportunities for development in Australia.

This five week study tour conducted in April and May 2016 was focused on interviews with both education and business stakeholders in Finland, Austria and Tasmania.

Finland is ranked No 1 in Education in the OECD rankings, Austria has one of the world’s highest rates of workplace training. TASTAFE in Hobart is doing an excellent job with strong local business links.

During this time George conducted interviews with eight vocational campuses, two Ministries of Education, representatives from businesses and fourteen lecturers from IT, Electronics and Business faculties. This gave him a unique opportunity to identify strengths from the European system that could be applied to strengthen regional development in Australia.

In George’s words….

‘What have I learnt:

·         Australia has excellent teaching practices but we have huge opportunities to partner up with regional businesses to fine tune teaching and assessment practices to ensure that our students are “job ready”. In particular we have opportunities to improve assessment

·         Vorarlberg state in Austria has the strongest economy in Austria and this has been built on a high tech manufacturing sector. This partnership was built around their own business chambers working with the Austrian education ministry to develop vocational colleges and universities of applied science.
In other words they built their own opportunities for their own region. They are now world leaders!

My conclusions can be simply put “Partner up or Perish!”. Economic development needs a workforce that is qualified and experienced in the most modern practices. This can only be achieved by communities, businesses and educators working together to ensure our students are job ready’.

http://www.slideshare.net/georgeholt39/partners-in-vet-eu-ecop-presentation