The SELFIE tool gives vocational education and training (VET) schools the chance to see their position in the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning. While available for various education levels, for the first time this paper focuses on the use of the tool by VET schools, aiming...

Career guidance and counselling are key features of comprehensive strategies aiming to reduce early leaving from education and training. They may assist students, not only in terms of decision-making but also in managing their transitions within education and training pathways or from education...

This working paper aims to critique the emergence of microcredentials in vocational education and training. It argues that considering microcredentials as a new tool to reorient higher or academic education overlooks the potential of vocational and professional education as well as its aim to...

Based on unique data from the second wave of the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey (ESJS2), this study examines the drivers of labour shortages in European labour markets. Detailed information on foundation, digital, manual, and interpersonal job-skill requirements in European labour...

The number of overseas students in China has increased substantially over the last two decades, as has the number of Confucius Institutes (CIs) abroad. Using both official and self-compiled data on CIs abroad, and overseas students in China, by country of origin, we investigate empirically...