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The Swiss vocational education and training system : what can Spain learn from Switzerland?

Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Renold, Ursula - 2015

Switzerland is famous for its vocational education and training (VET) system. This article describes Switzerland's success in integrating adolescents into the labour market, with emphasis on two aspects. First, dual-track VET, which combines learning at school and in host companies, is an...

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Disentangling skills mismatch fifth release of the KOF youth labour market index

Pusterla, Filippo; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Bolli, Thomas - 2018

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KOF youth labour market index for Scotland

Renold, Ursula; Bolli, Thomas; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; … - 2018

The KOF Youth Labour Market Index (KOF YLMI) is a multidimensional tool that allows analysing the situation on the … picture than the simple comparisons of for example the youth unemployment rate. Skills Development Scotland (SDS) commissioned … tool, which allows comparing the Scottish youth labour market with the situation in other countries. Furthermore, the …

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Intermediary research report

Caves, Katherine; Renold, Ursula - Center on the Economics and Management of Education and … - 2016

The purpose of CEMETS' initial research project is to understand why the implementation of labor market-oriented education systems reforms succeed and fail. Findings should be generalizable to theory and to concrete situations so that we can inform both research and practice. We build and...

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The social status of vocational education and training in Switzerland

Bolli, Thomas; Rageth, Ladina; Renold, Ursula - 2019

This paper analyses how the social status of vocational education and training (VET) in Switzerland has changed over time and how it differs across population groups. The applied measure for the social status of VET compares the cognitive abilities (measured by PISA scores) of prospective...

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Theoretical and methodological framework for measuring the robustness of social institutions in education and training

Renold, Ursula; Rageth, Ladina; Caves, Katherine; … - 2017

Social institutions are relatively stable patterns of behavior or joint action that help overcome fundamental problems and perform a function in society. The robustness of such institutions underlies their effectiveness at solving problems, but such robustness is difficult to assess. Building on...

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First report on the Dual Vet-Apprenticeship programme in Nepal : formative assessment of the first cohort

Bolli, Thomas; Kemper, Johanna; Parajuli, Mahesh Nath; … - 2019

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Comparative advantages of school and workplace environment in competence acquisition : empirical evidence from a survey among professional tertiary education and training students...

Bolli, Thomas; Renold, Ursula - 2015

This paper sheds light on the questions how important competences are and which competences can best be learned at school and which competences can be acquired better in the workplace. Exploiting data from a survey among professional tertiary education and training business administration...

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Entwicklung der Reglementierung von 10 MEM-Berufen im Kontext von Bildungsreformen und dem Wandel in der Arbeitswelt : eine Kurzstudie im Auftrag von LIBS

Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Renold, Ursula - 2010

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Projection of net benefits for companies in the dual VET-apprenticeship programme in Nepal

Bolli, Thomas; Kemper, Johanna; Parajuli, Mahesh Nath; … - 2020

The ENSSURE project entails a component of introducing a Dual VET-Apprenticeship in Nepal. This new formal upper secondary education programme combines about one day of classroom education with about five days of workplace training each week for two years. While this project is in its pilot...

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