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Synopsis: Education: Vocational education: Vocational education:

Namibia Paying taxes Namibia made paying taxes more complicated for companies by introducing a new vocational education and training levy.

Developing world-class vocational education and training to raise the quality of vocational skills; Promoting work based learning including quality traineeships,

and/or enhance measures to implement them. zzwith the Digital Media in Vocational education and Training support programme (Digitale Medien in der beruflichen Bildung),

we are strengthening vocational education and initiating structural changes with the aim of significantly increasing the use of digital tools for initial and continuing training in vocational education.

The Digitisation University Forum (Hochschulforum Digitalisierung) identifies opportunities for digitisation in universities and drafts recommendations for action. 4. Exploiting digitisation's potential for innovation To help innovations enjoy market success,

whereas the poorest quintile averages only four years. 54 The education deficit is filled not by technical/vocational education

The agenda also contributes to achieving the EU's targets to get the early school-leaving rate below 10%and more young people in higher education or equivalent vocational education (at least 40),

The alliance mobilises a multitude of stakeholders to jointly strengthen the quality, supply and reputation of in-company training as part of vocational education.

ii) the potential contribution of vocational education and technical skills to entrepreneurship and innovation is appreciated not sufficiently in the region;

There seems to be also a significant divide between the regional innovation system and the vocational education system.

the regional government is missing the possible contribution of vocational education to innovation through a more qualified and skilled workforce.

although it is responsible for vocational education, self employment programmes, and even for some entrepreneur training schemes. A by-product of this divide is that workforce development is aligned not as with cluster development as it could be.

The Second Andalusia Plan for Vocational education, currently being prepared by the Ministry of Education is looking at closer co-operation with firms,

page 76) Establish Industry Growth Centres (Proposal 13, page 72) Reform the vocational education and training sector (Proposal 10,

and Vocational education and Training (VET) system that provide the skills needed for jobs of the future.

and the vocational education and training (VET) sector. Males Females Year 12 12.8 10.1 Diploma or certificate 13.8 11.4 Degree or higher 38.4 36.7 Table 2:

Ambition 2 49 Vocational education and training that prepares Australians for work The VET system is regarded generally well.

A survey of employers by the National Centre for Vocational education Research (2013b) indicated that satisfaction in the ability of the system to deliver job ready employees declined 6 percentage points, to 78 per cent, between 2011 and 2013.

Improving the Vocational education and Training system As part of the Competitiveness Agenda, the Government is introducing the next wave of reforms for the VET sector.

Improving the Vocational education and Training system The Government's VET Reform Taskforce has undertaken significant stakeholder consultation throughout 2014.

des Affaires KPMG Klynveld Peat marwick Goerdeler LNG Liquefied Natural gas PAYG Pay as you go NCC National Construction Code NCVER National Centre for Vocational education Research

technology, engineering and mathematics VET Vocational education and Training VID Vienna Institute of Demography WEF World Economic Forum WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation TPO00007 Industry

National Centre for Vocational education Research. NCVER. 2013b). ) Employers use and views of the VET system:

National Centre for Vocational education Research. OECD. 2010a. Review of Regulatory Reform Australia. Paris: OECD. OECD. 2010b.

Finally, Lahti needs to link vocational education to the development of the innovation environment and increase international education and research cooperation.

14 the European Forum of Technical and Vocational education and Training; 15 the DG EAC Thematic Working group on ICT and Education;

funds projects in the field of vocational education and training. In this context SME employees can develop their skills to match the continuous challenges stemming from evolving working environments.

Vocational education and early childhood care and education also constitute important areas for investment. The funds will continue to finance projects that help people in difficulty

SME Small and Medium Enterprise SPA Special Protection Area Suds Sustainable Drainage systems TI Tipperary Institute VEC Vocational education Committee WFD Water Framework

and Vocational education Colleges (VECS) can provide the training facilities throughout the region that are needed. The implications of these needs are that training

Romania has a long tradition on Technical and Vocational education and Training (TVET) program. Recent numbers from INS show that West region lags behind other peers in terms of enrollment in TVET.

Entrepreneurship is provided also increasingly in vocational education and training and schools. For example, apprenticeship programmes are good vehicles for developing entrepreneurship skills,

Despite the general importance of vocational education and training (VET) to skills development in firms, enterprises with less than 50 employees provide significantly less employee training than larger firms.

SME managers and SME workforces by changing the nature of vocational education and training to better fit the needs and motivations of entrepreneurs, offering short duration Innovation Bootcamps for SME owner-managers such as weekend seminars and short online courses,

and increasing the flexibility of vocational education and training for SME workforces. Embed teaching of an entrepreneurship mindset in school curricula

Create integrated training strategies combining training located in higher education, vocational education and training and formal and informal training in SMES.

vocational education and schools) and in work environments (focusing on informal entrepreneurship learning at work through the involvement of workers in knowledge-intensive service activities

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION OECD 2010 171 Vocational education and training Vocational education and training (VET) is a type of task-oriented technical education widely used to prepare future self-employed entrepreneurs and SME employees.

In addition to courses entirely taught in vocational education institutions, an important element of the system is apprenticeships,

However, improving entrepreneurship skills in SMES through vocational education and training is challenging due to obstacles to SMES in accessing formal training.

Meeting the challenge of providing more relevant entrepreneurship teaching in vocational education therefore requires changes in programmes

The literature also offers some suggestions about how vocational education and training needs to be adapted to better meet the needs of SME workforces.

Change the nature of vocational education and training to better fit the needs and motivations of entrepreneurs:

Increase the flexibility of vocational education and training for SME workforces. Target both workers and enterprises;

such as in programme design and management. 4. ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS SMES, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION OECD 2010 183 Create integrated training strategies combining training located in higher education, vocational education and training,

A Systematic Review of Research, National Centre for Vocational education Research (NCVR), May 2007, Adelaide. European commission (2006), Management Capacity Building, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, Brussels. European commission (2007), Assessment of Compliance with the Entrepreneurship Education Objective in the Context of the 2006 Spring

Gibb, A. 2009), The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Challenge to Vocational education: Revolution or Evolution? Paper presented at the OECD Conference on SMES, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Udine, Italy, 22-23 october 2009, OECD LEED Programme, Paris. Gibb Dyer, W. Jr.

Strengthen vocational education and training programmes for business founders SME managers and SME workforces by changing the nature of vocational education

and training to better fit the needs and motivations of entrepreneurs, offering short-duration training for SME owner-managers and increasing the flexibility of vocational education and training for SME workforces.

Embed teaching of an entrepreneurial mindset in schools through changes in curricula and introduction of relevant teacher training and teaching materials designed for entrepreneurship.

vocational education and training and formal and informal training. 4. Improve the environment for social entrepreneurship and social innovation Build financial, fiscal,

Vocational education and Training (VET) Formal education and training programmes that have a task orientation rather than an academic nature

Insignificant to 5 Very important) REGKNOWA Sum-variable measuring the importance of regional knowledge organizations for innovation University of Kuopio Savonia University of Applied sciences Organizations of vocational education

Journal of Vocational education & Training 65,256-276. Crossref 18. Murat Atalay, Nilgün Anafarta, Fulya Sarvan. 2013.

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