The Financing Of Continuing Vocational Training In Belgium

This document describes the vocational education and training system in Belgium, beginning in chapter 1 with the administrative, demographic, and economic background in which the training system exists. Chapter 2 provides a brief historical review of the development of the training system; arrangements for initial training; and arrangements for continuing training, teacher training, and adult training. Chapter 3 indicates where responsibilities for administering the system are located, including the influence of the social partners, and presents information on the financing system. Chapter 4 provides an indication of present trends and developments, including how far the system has been, or would be, influenced by European Community considerations, such as the following: creation of the single European market, mutual recognition of qualifications, the intervention of the Structural Funds, and the Community's education and training programs. Specific topics are as follows: divergent training systems, the teaching profession and teacher training, choice of study by girls, and education in the Flemish and French communities. Appendixes contain 14 references and the following: list of acronyms and abbreviated titles; major organizations involved in providing or regulating vocational training; and glossary. (YLB)

Recoge: 1.Continuing vocational training in Austria - 2.Continuing vocational training in Fladers (Belgium) - 3.Continuing vocational training in the French-speaking community (Belgium) - 4.Continuing vocational training in Denmark - 5.Continuing vocational training in Finland - 6.Continuing vocational training in France - 7.Continuing vocational training in Germany - 8.Continuing vocational training in Greece - 9.Continuing vocational training in Ireland - 10.Continuing vocational training in Italy - 11.Continuing vocational training in Luxembourg - 12.Continuing vocational training in The Netherlands - 13.Continuing vocational training in Portugal - 14.Continuing vocational training in Spain - 15.Continuing vocational training in Sweden - 16.Continuing vocational training in the UK - 17.Continuing vocational training in Norway - 18.Continuing vocational training in Japan - 19.Continuing vocational training in the United States.

Recoge: 1.Basic information - 2.Initial vocational training (IVT) - 3.Continuing vocational training - 4.The future of funding for vocational education and training: trends and perspectives - 5.Annexes.

Recoge: 1.Background to the funding of vocational education and training - 2.Initial vocational training - 3.Continuing vocational and training - 4.Training schemes for the unemployed - 5.Combined training programmes - 6.Future financing of vocational training-trends and projections.

This report examines the financing of the two components of France's vocational education and training (VET) system. They are initial vocational training (IVT), which includes upper secondary and short forms of higher education, and continuing vocational training (CVT), which aims to help workers adapt to changes in working techniques and conditions and promote their social advancement. The following are among the topics discussed in parts 1-5: (1) funding mechanisms for training (trends in the French economy; trends in employment and training policy; collective agreements; laws/decrees and the Labour Code; public authorities; joint sectoral bodies); (2) IVT (sources of funds for IVT at schools, apprenticeship, alternance training contracts, and vocational training trainees; resource distribution mechanism; outlook); (3) sources of funding for CVT and distribution of resources for funding the training of private-sector employees and civil servants; (4) funding of training for job seekers and distribution of the training funds through role sharing between the central government and regions and through partnerships between the social partners, the government, and the regions; and (5) the future of VET funding. Thirty-nine tables/figures are included. Appended are the following: main legislation and regulations on continuing vocational training; 10 additional tables; and a glossary. (MN)