25 octobre 2010
SEMINAIRE DE CONTACT LEONARDO DA VINCI«Les ECVET en pratique»
Informal presentation of ECVETThe challenge of the ECVET implementation in Belgium
A short informal presentation of ECVET 2
A short informal presentation of ECVET 3
ECTS: a mobility structured to obtain a qualification (IVET)
A short informal presentation of ECVET 4
Total inscription
ERASMUS training courses
Universities
2005-2006 70.528 (1381) 1,95%2006-2007 68.239 (1365) 2,00%
High Schools and Schools higher arts
2005-2006
76.5766.882
(745) 0,97%--- ---
2006-2007
76.1206.940
(837) 1,09%--- ---
Percentage of the students of higher education having taken part in an ERASMUS program
Mobility, a motor for change?
A short informal presentation of ECVET 5
ECVET: a concept for the life (IVET and CVET)
Lifelong Learning
Pathway
Formal
Informal
On the job
Formal
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Con
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tion
fu
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sR
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sati
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Design of certifications
Design of the programs
Design of the procedures of
assessment/validation
Carrying out the formal or non formal programme
Assessment of L.O
Validation of L.O.
Recognition/certification
Centres of training,
Companies,
Competent authorities (Chambers, ministries…),
Administration (national, regional…),
Branches, sectors…
What?
Who? For which?
Young people in IVET
Apprentices
Adults in CVET
Workers
…
Functions impacted by ECVET
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Unit X
Cert
ificati
on
Z unit includes:
the general title of the unit, the general title of the qualification, level EQF of the qualification, the L.O. which constitute the unit, procedures and criteria of assessment of the
L.O., ECVET points.
To implement ECVET implies that each competent
authority organise its qualifications in units
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There are no rules in ECVET text
Large units Small units
To preserve the meaning for labour market
Qualifications readable/understandable for
teachers and learners
To have a reasonable number assessments
be reasonable to organize mobility
Which criteria to build the units?
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Which criteria to create the units?
Key activity X
Unit 1
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 1
Key activity XKey activity XKey activity Y
The key activity of the job is a good criteria to group the learning outcomes into units
Key activity XKey activity Y
Unit 1
Unit 2
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System 1 System 2 System 3 System 4
120 120 150 150
Unit X
Unit Y
Unit K
Unit H
Unit O Unit O
Unit X Unit X Unit X
Unit K
Unit Y Unit Y
Unit O
Unit K
Unit M
Unit A
Unité P
Unit O
Unit C
Unit B
Transparency of qualifications and forget the harmonization
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To build your project, it will develop a network
System B
System A
System C
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But be carreful
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The challenge of the ECVET implementation in Belgium
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2002 2003 2004 20052006 (A)
Flemish region 11,7% 12,5% 11,0% 10,7% 11,0%
Walloon region 16,1% 16,1% 15,3% 14,6% 17,0%
Region of Brussels-capital 22,4% 18,8% 18,1% 19,4% 22,4%
Belgium 14,1% 14,3% 13,1% 12,9% 14,2%(A) Rupture in the series
Percentage of the population from 18 to 24 years which did not finish higher secondary education and which is not any more in trainingEUROSTAT, DGSIE, Investigation into labour forces (2002 - 2006)
In 2006, in the CFWB, approximately 63.000 people.
A problem of mobility? Which mobility?
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Mister X in the French Belgian VET systemSchool base
vocational secondary educationWorkload vocational secondary education
Degrees
Higher education
Initial vocational training (workload based) by Regional vocational operators
Continuing vocational training system for adults by Regional vocational operators
Education for adult
Total transfer
Transfer
Possible transfer, but…/ No rights
Titles of
notoriety
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For the same job or a family of jobs We find on the “VET market”:
• different degrees,• different vocational training
certificates,• certificates attesting of the
participation of a vocational course.
Problem of readability of the VET system
Difficulty to ensure the mobility of the learners in the VET system
Difficulty to implement really the LLL
Titles of notoriety
The names of the qualifications and the learning pathways are not coordinated.
Gives legal rights
The implementation of the ECVET system was probably an opportunity for our VET system.
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Job profile
Training profile
expressed in LOUnit X
Unit Y
Unit Z
Unit G
Unit K
Unit P
Unit D
Qualifications developed by the VET operators
Un
it X
Un
it Y
Un
it G
Un
it K
Un
it P
Un
it D
Un
it X
Un
it Z
Un
it K
Un
it D
Un
it X
Un
it G
Un
it K
Un
it P
French Service of Jobs and Qualifications
Specific learning pathways
Specific learning pathways
Specific learning pathways
Implementation of ECVET starting from the principle of the common references (see RECOMFOR project)
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3 groups of trades (automotive, catering, aesthetics)
Qualifications in units (EQF level 4) All schools are concerned Academic year 2010-2011: preparation Academic year 2011-2012: implementation
in the schools
Experimentation of ECVET in Belgium
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The roadmap to build a project ECVET
To know the concept To take into account the good ideas of the
first ECVET projects To build a realistic project in relationship
with the political aims of your system, the real needs of your system and the citizens
To implicate the competent authorities To develop an economic model (more
efficient in resources and labor) The project should be useful for your system