Content
In the First Ministerial Meeting of Ministers for Education in Riga in June 2015, Ministers agreed that enhanced cooperation with stakeholders, including social partners and enterprises, provide a significant contribution in the development of VET and HE alike. In this context, Sectoral Councils (SeC) play an important role to align employers’ needs for a qualified workforce with the overarching approach to provide a coherent system of qualifications. SeC have been addressed during various CAEP events, however, CA stakeholders expressed interest in a further, practice oriented and pragmatic discussion on the working principles and tasks of SeC. Therefore CAEP will organise a webinar on “The role of Sectoral Councils in CA and the EU in the context of National Qualifications Frameworks”, with a duration of 2,5 hours. The project very much appreciates the readiness of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan “Atameken” to actively contribute to the webinar and to co organise it.
Objectives
This activity aims at improving the cooperation between business, state and education institutions by continuing and further deepening the discussions on the setting up and working of Sectoral Councils in the context of SQF and NQF. This includes:
- To address “Sectoral Councils” (SeC) as relevant institutional element for involving companies and business associations in contributing to the development of relevant and practice oriented NQF reps. SQF
- To present one good practice each from CA and from the EU for a well working SeC and its impact on the development of (or adaptation to existing) NQF, respectively Sectoral Qualifications Frameworks (SQF)
- To present the institutional setting, working procedures, content of discussions and decision making processes of SeC to contribute to the process of NQF/SQF development
- To discuss still existing shortcomings and ways how to overcome them
- To provide a short summary of main discussion points of the webinar at the end (moderator) and in writing as follow up to the event.
Expected outputs
- Set of questions identified and shared among participants prior to the webinar
- Webinar conducted for up to 15 participants from each CA country, representing Ministries of Education and Labour, state agencies; HEI and VET institutions; business associations, chambers, companies; education practitioners; international and donor organisations
- Up to 5 presentations with good practice on work of SeC held
- Moderated discussions based on set of questions held
- Summary of discussion points and preliminary results and recommendations shared among participants
Results
- Experience, lessons learned, best/good practices shared, mutual understanding/learning enhanced.
- Evidence based policy approach improved.
Programme
- WEBINAR_NQF_Agenda
- WEBINAR_NQF_Agenda_RU
Materials
- CAEP_Webinar_NQF_CAEP_ru
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Chaplinsky_eng
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Chaplinsky_rus
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Deij_eng
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Deij_rus
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Porniece_Latvia_eng
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Porniece_Latvia_rus
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Shonayeva_eng
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Shonayeva_rus
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Zurawski_Poland_eng
- CAEP_Webinar NQF_Zurawski_Poland_rus