Social utility of vocational education and training – selected aspects

The concept of “quality” is not static, is not absolute. It evolves along adapting to changing market and customers’ needs. The training providers’ accreditation systems are the most common approaches aimed to guarantee a pre-emptive check of minimum standards of quality in the delivery of training...

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Main Authors: Małgorzata Szpilska, Giulia Meschino
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Language:deu
Published: Łukasiewicz Research Network – The Institute for Sustainable Technologies 2020-12-01
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Online Access:https://edukacjaustawicznadoroslych.eu/images/2020/4/04_4_2020.pdf
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description The concept of “quality” is not static, is not absolute. It evolves along adapting to changing market and customers’ needs. The training providers’ accreditation systems are the most common approaches aimed to guarantee a pre-emptive check of minimum standards of quality in the delivery of training services. In many Member States and more and more frequently, accreditation is used as a governance tool to ensure the quality of training institutions and training programmes. Nevertheless, the impression is that often the adoption of such standards fall in a routine of bureaucracy and administrative procedures aimed to overtake the constrains of the certification/accreditation periodical checks. When this happens, “quality” is perceived by VET teachers and operators just as an overload of paperwork overlaid to current activities. In order to prove its real effectiveness, the quality of the VET provision should be analysed towards its social usefulness. The Social Utility of vocational education and training (VET) is the subject of qualitative and quantitative evaluations in many European countries. However, it is difficult to clearly estimate what lies behind this concept.
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spelling doaj-art-404e1982aac94e04a86ba6ed570b3bbe2025-08-20T03:09:51ZdeuŁukasiewicz Research Network – The Institute for Sustainable TechnologiesEdukacja Ustawiczna Dorosłych1507-65632020-12-011114556410.34866/acnn-4g55Social utility of vocational education and training – selected aspectsMałgorzata Szpilska0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9754-4837Giulia Meschino1Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz – Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji, RadomEuropean Vocational Training Association (EVTA), AEFP – Association Européenne pour la Formation ProfessionnelleThe concept of “quality” is not static, is not absolute. It evolves along adapting to changing market and customers’ needs. The training providers’ accreditation systems are the most common approaches aimed to guarantee a pre-emptive check of minimum standards of quality in the delivery of training services. In many Member States and more and more frequently, accreditation is used as a governance tool to ensure the quality of training institutions and training programmes. Nevertheless, the impression is that often the adoption of such standards fall in a routine of bureaucracy and administrative procedures aimed to overtake the constrains of the certification/accreditation periodical checks. When this happens, “quality” is perceived by VET teachers and operators just as an overload of paperwork overlaid to current activities. In order to prove its real effectiveness, the quality of the VET provision should be analysed towards its social usefulness. The Social Utility of vocational education and training (VET) is the subject of qualitative and quantitative evaluations in many European countries. However, it is difficult to clearly estimate what lies behind this concept.https://edukacjaustawicznadoroslych.eu/images/2020/4/04_4_2020.pdfvocational education and trainingsocial utility modelquality of educationquality managementsocial utility
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quality management
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quality management
social utility
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