Systems of education and vocational training in the member countries of the European Community. Study
Year: 1976
Type: other
Abstract: The aim of this Study is to help regalvanize the drive to align vocational training in the Community.Up to now, voc€Ltional training has not received much attention in the overall re-assessment of education.This is partly due to the widely made distinction between general and job-orientated education.The Economic and Social Committee has repeatedly considered educational and training issues.The Committee's Section for Social Questions has noted that progress towards alignment in this sphere will have a crucial influence on the development of the Community.The higb rate of unemployment among young people has once again highliehted the fragmentation of vocational training systems in the Community.In recent years the Commission, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the two sides of industry have recognized the need for a special Community institution for vocational training.In 1970, a Committee study group, chaired by Mr Manlio Germozzi, reviewed educational and training systems, and considered the question of a Community institution for vocational training and guidance.The Rapporteur, Mrs Maria Weber, surveyed the present patterns, probable future development and objectives of education and vocational training in the six Member States.The study group was able to refer to an earlier study, entitled 'An Action Programme for a Com- mon Policy on Vocational Training, both general and in the field of agriculture'; this had been drawn up in the Section for Social Questions by Mr Germozzi in 1967.These studies, and other Cornmittee Opinions on vocational training, called for gradual alignment of the final stages of vocational training systems, so that workers would be able to take up job offers anywhere in the Community.find a satisfactory solution to the countless human problems which are inevitable in setting up an integrated common market.Improved and aligned vocational training can be an effective weapon in combatting unimBloyment amoqg the young (at present, 3 million young people are unem- ployed in ttre EEC).Many of the problems connected with the emergence of a leographically and occupationally mobile workforce could be solved.In short, the study sgrveys the present differences between training systems, calls for the establishment of equivalent vocational training levels, and discusses the pre-requisites for equal educational opportunities.It is still very much a relevant docudent, because of itr call for central, basic research within the Community framework.Without this, educational alignment cannot be achieved.
Author: Maria Weber
Language: English
Topic: Education Systems and Policy
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W67543659