Quality assurance in vocational education and training : a collection of articles

Abstract

"Quality in vocational education and training is an issue that tops the agenda in government conferences and in school meetings. If learning doesn’t lead to satisfactory outcomes, everyone loses: learners, employers and society at large. There are new approaches to performance monitoring, measurement of quality or output-based policies. Policy makers, education institutions, administrators and teachers in ETF's partner countries have always been concerned with quality in education and training. With so many new developments, the ETF decided to capture the state of the art in the field and stimulate the debate, and in 2012 it launched a call for articles. These are presented here. By publishing this collection the ETF hopes to raise awareness about the potential of quality improvement and quality assurance in VET in the partner countries." (Editor, BIBB-Doku)