More than 80 people (partners from Greece, Austria and Poland, members of Lithuanian vocational training institutions and social partners) participated in the project final conference in Kaunas, 11-09-2014.

The president of Kaunas CICC Benjaminas Žemaitis said that vocational training is very important for main companies of the country, especially in manufacturing sector.

Kaunas CICC VET…

With a brand new site serving the needs of students for practice, Koralius Mindaugos Vocational Training Centre provides quality vocational training and on-the-job training. The three store establishment, situated in the centre of Kaunas, next to the Acropolis shopping centre, provides working facilities for a number of professions, where the students can have on-the-job training with real clients. The facility includes:
• a florist centre, consisting of a laboratory, an assembling room…

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Businesspeople have expressed their support to the decision made by Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis to make mathematics examination compulsory starting 2016 to those entering higher education institutions. Business representatives have also noted the need to enhance development of practical competences of specialists.

Such position…

The Eurobarometer survey was carried out in all 28 Member States between 26 April and 11 May where 28 000 people from different social and demographic groups were interviewed face-to-face. The survey provided important data on a number of issues that are relevant to current policies on education and skills in Europe. The survey highlights EU citizens’ attitudes towards the education that they have received and the priorities for education and training in their country, as well as their views…

Following the termination of the project EXPANDVET, a new project has been approved in the framework of Erasmus+ KA2 strategic partnerships projects for VET. Bequal.net the new project is led by the Latvian Society for Quality while the other partners are IDEC from Greece, Suomen Laatuyhdistys ry from Finland and the Educational Association from Czech Republic.
With Bequal.net the benchmarking tool and bequal platform will be available in Latvian, Czech…

Cedefop Director James Calleja praised Malta’s efforts to draft a national quality assurance framework for further and higher education based on the Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European higher education area (ESG) and a European quality assurance in VET (EQAVET) perspective.…

Cedefop and the European Commission (DG EAC) are organising a conference to present the findings of Cedefop’s new vocational education and training (VET) report. This report reviews developments in the deliverables set for 2014 and progress with the…

IDEC hold a national conference on the 10th of July 2014 in Piraeus with the title “Quality assurance and Benchmarking for Vocational Education and Training organisations”. The conference attracted 14 participants mainly VET providers.
The conference started with a welcome and an introduction by Mrs. Sofia Spiliotopoulou, the General Manager of IDEC SA. The speakers presented their topics while the participants were encouraged to interrupt and ask…

The 2nd training of trainers of QUADRAT project will take place in Milan, Italy on 14-16 July 2014. The training is organised by EUROCREA.

25 trainees, representing adult learning organisations from Italy, Greece, Spain and Hungary are expected to participate in the 2,5 days training. The training will focus on both the quality management in…

18 October 2013, 21 February and 14 March: those are the dates in which Public Service Language Centre organized its NELLIP National Workshops in Lithuania. Workshops participants worked in small groups and defined a specific improvement plans addressed to language initiatives and projects.

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Location:
Conference centre "Radisson SAS Blu", Konstitucijos av. 20,Vilnius

Event dates:
From 12.11.2013 to 13.11.2013

The topics and agenda of the conference on matters of vocational training, hosted during the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU, will be closely related to the topics analysed and issues discussed at the meeting of directors, which are responsible for vocational training. Just as with the meeting of directors,…

The Quality of education in Belarus will be the topic of the roundtable in the press center BELTA , which will be held on 19 March from 12.30 to 13.30 .

In anticipation of the I International Education Forum “European Quality education” (EQE-Forum), which will be held in Minsk in April, experts will discuss current issues in higher education. It will focus mainly on quality control of higher and professional education, new integration opportunities and development of export education…

Location:
Conference centre "Radisson SAS Blu", Konstitucijos av. 20, Vilnius

Event dates:
From 11.11.2013 to 12.11.2013

The meeting of directors responsible for vocational training usually takes place as part of the EU Presidency during the respective presidency period. Given the need to promote quality assurance and employment, the meeting of directors in Vilnius will discuss topics of the promotion of open vocational training. The meeting…

The Netherlands is one of the most active member states in the field of Quality assurance in VET and Dutch quality assurance systems in VET centres are very much elaborated as Quality is adherent to Dutch culture.
Therefore the inclusion of BEQUAL benchmarking tool in the collection of best practices for quality assurance in VET that was assembled by the National Agency for Lifelong Learning Programme is for outmost importance. BEQUAL tool has gained visibility in the Dutch VET system,…