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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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European Training Foundation, 2012
The "ETF Yearbook 2012" continues the tradition of highlighting a thematic field of particular importance to the work of the European Training Foundation (ETF). The theme of this yearbook is evaluation and monitoring of vocational education and training (VET) systems and the role of evidence-based policy in VET reforms in ETF partner countries. As…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Evidence, Research, Vocational Education
Pantic, Natasa; Closs, Alison; Ivosevic, Vanja – European Training Foundation, 2011
Teachers for the Future is a regional report that draws together and analyses research findings from a study commissioned by the European Training Foundation (ETF) in seven countries in the Western Balkan region, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. The overall…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Evidence, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Oldroyd, David, Ed.; Nielsen, Soren, Ed. – European Training Foundation, 2010
The reform of South Eastern European country vocational education and training (VET) systems has been underway for more than a decade. Initially major efforts focused on reforming the curricula of the vocational schools and training centres to align them better with the rapidly changing needs of the labour market and society. Later the focus moved…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Anthologies, Vocational Schools, Foreign Countries
Seyfried, Erwin – European Training Foundation, 2008
In many countries in both the Mediterranean region and the European Union (EU), interest in the quality of, and improvements to, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems has increased progressively in recent years. The main reason underlying this interest is a growing awareness of the key role played by education and training…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance
Parkes, David; Nielsen, Soren – European Training Foundation, 2006
The European Training Foundation EU European (ETF) Peer Review is an initiative that was launched in the South Eastern European countries in 2002. It combines policy advice to individual countries with a regional dimension. The key objectives for the peer reviews are to: (1) provide an external assessment of VET (vocational education and training)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Development