Preparing Technicians has released its study about vocational education systems and practices in the EU.
The changing nature of work raises many questions for the US education system about how to prepare skilled technicians. The accelerating pace of innovation and rapid changes in industry mean that technicians will need to acquire new skills.
Because this phenomenon is global, there is value in looking at how other countries are responding to these realities. With the EU’s highly developed economies and various approaches to what they refer to as VET, vocational education and training, it offers potential lessons for the US CTE system.
Lessons from European States: Policy and Practice in
Career and Technical Education
The EU study broadly discusses VET policies across six countries —Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Spain—along with the lessons they offer the US CTE system and potential policy and practice implications.
Across the countries studied, VET program adaptations included many practices that are already happening in the United States but may not be done to scale or may be approached differently. The report examines how these practices have been implemented in various European contexts.
In partnership with Preparing Technicians, the study was conducted by the Rutgers’ Education and Employment Research Center (EERC). Preparing Technicians is a project of CORD (Center for Occupational Research and Development) and funded by the National Science Foundation.
For more information or to download the EU study
