Recent Cedefop Publications
Skills for green jobs: European synthesis report
Linking credit systems and qualifications frameworks: an international comparative analysis
Access to success: lifelong guidance for better learning and working in Europe
Professional development opportunities for in-company trainers
Skills supply and demand in Europe: medium-term forecast up to 2020
The skill matching challenge: analysing skill mismatch and policy implications
Employer-provided vocational training in Europe
Guiding at-risk youth through learning to work
Accreditation and quality assurance in vocational education and training
Competence framework for VET professionals
The shift to learning outcomes: policies and practices in Europe
For a full listing of Cedefop’s publications, click here
Recent acquisitions of the CEDEFOP library are published monthly under the title VET Alert and can be found here
VET in Europe
This page on the Cedefop website provides information on the national VET systems of EU countries plus Iceland and Norway using a common theme-based structure. The latest country report for Ireland is for 2009.
In a section entitled detailed thematic analyses information on single themes relating to the national VET systems are presented in greater detail. The Irish reports are as follows:
Shorter versions of the national reports are produced for countries holding the EU-Council Presidency. The report on the Irish VET system which was published in 2004 is available from FÁS library: library@fas.ie
ReferNet VET Policy Report Ireland is the Irish contribution to the Cedefop policy report. It provides information on Ireland's progress in VET towards EU policy goals within the framework of the Copenhagen process and according to the policy measures defined in the Maastricht Communiqué (2004) and the Helsinki Communiqué (2008).
The Cedefop policy report, encompassing reports from the other EU Member States is entitled 'Continuity, consolidation and change: towards a European era of vocational education and training'
