• ECGC – European Career Guidance Certificate: certifying education and career advisors » Gastautor

  Upon initiative of the ibw (institute for research on qualifications and training of the Austrian economy), the EU project ECGC – European Career Guidance Certificate was launched in November 2007. As the name suggests, the intention is to develop certification with which education and career advisors will be able to prove certain qualitative standards.

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• KICK OFF for the Austrian National Prize „Best apprentice training companies – Fit for Future“ » Mag. Dagmar Achleitner

  The “Fit for Future” prize, which is in great demand among Austria’s economic players, will for the first time be awarded in the form of a national prize this year, thanks to an initiative started by Secretary of State Christine Marek. The Federal Ministry for Economy and Labour will award the best companies engaging in apprenticeship training for quality, innovation and sustainability. This will take place in three categories for small, medium-sized and large enterprises. Moreover, a special prize will be awarded for outstanding performance in the field of integrative job training. To participate, register by 30 June, 2008.

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• Welcome to the BIC! » Mag. Wolfgang Bliem

  A newly designed user interface, five languages, a hundred job descriptions extra, a thousand additional photographs and an extensive service area: these are the constituent parts of the BIC 2008. The re-launch of the BIC has been online since 4 April.

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• Media Folder „Update Apprenticeship“ » Mag. Dagmar Achleitner

  Update apprenticeship provides coaches, teachers, as well as job and education advisors with a concise overview of all novelties in the field of apprenticeship. Moreover, it contains a number of modern products which can be applied in career advice and apprenticeship training. The media folder compiled by the ibw can be obtained from the Federal Ministry of Economy and Labour, as well as from the Austrian Economic Chamber.

  All those interested may attend the lecture “Update Apprenticeship” of the ibw. You will find further information from achleitner@ibw.at.

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• Social integration: how Leonardo da Vinci projects make a successful contribution to effectiveness » Dr. Monika Thum-Kraft

  Selected completed projects which were funded as part of the European programme ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, are being tested for their sustainability, implementation and the circulation of their products.

  The ibw carries out a survey among potential users in Austria together with the Styrian regional Board of Education.

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• Call of Papers » Dr. Monika Thum-Kraft

  Dear reader of our ibw newsletter! Apart from reports about our current work, also articles by our guest authors are very popular with our readers. We have thus decided to make a “call for papers” in the next issues of our newsletter.

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• Early identification of the need for qualification in Europe: is it a problem of comparability of qualification certificates? » Dr. Arthur Schneeberger

  The present article deals with the current, mid-term forecast of the need for qualification in the study “Future Skill needs” for the European labour market. It reveals that different training systems, as well as the application of merely three levels of qualification (low, intermediate and high), may lead to imprecise results and misunderstandings. An eight-level European qualification framework, put into practice by the year 2010, is intended to bring more transparency to the issue.

  Finally, conclusions are drawn from a mid-term prediction of skill needs and a critical reflection of the implicated classification of education levels for job training and university education in Austria.

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• Putting EVCET into practice in first job training in Austria » Mag. Sabine Tritscher-Archan

  With ECVET (European Credit Transfer in Vocational Education and Training), the European commission proposed a system of learning credits which is intended to make qualifications achieved abroad more transparent and to acknowledge them more easily – much in the same way as ECTS does it in the university sector.

  As part of the preparations for the possible implementation of EVCET in Austria, the Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture (BMUKK) has launched an investigation with the objective to test first job training for its aptness for ECVET.

  The present final report analyses both the legal and organisational circumstances in school-based and in dual first job training. It identifies factors that speak for EVCET, but also such that impair it, in the current regulations. The results of this investigation show needs for adapting, and they make recommendations for further steps necessary in the implementation of ECVET.

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• SME Master » Mag. Sabine Tritscher-Archan

  In the course of the project ‘Skilled ▪ Mobile ▪ European Master (SME Master)’, financially supported by the EU education programme Leonardo da Vinci, the main principles of the European learning credits system (ECVET)were transferred onto master craftsmanship in the baker trade. Coordinated by the central organisation of the German Craftsmen Association, partner institutions from four countries (Germany, Austria, France and Norway) described baker craftsmanship in a learning result- oriented way, divided it into units and assigned credits to these.

  The exact methodical procedure was described in a handbook which has now been published in German and English

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• Education and career information/advice: large deficits can be observed among youths with migration background » Mag. Helmut Dornmayr

  Migrant youths are highly under-represented mainly in vocational schools (apprenticeship training), secondary vocational schools and general secondary schools. In special needs schools, however, they are over-represented.

  This disadvantaging in education is especially prominent among youths with Turkish and Serbian/Montenegrin citizenship. These youths show quite clearly that their parents come from non-academically inclined social classes. This would make comprehensive and efficient education and career advice especially important for these kids – primarily at schools. The existing offers are not at all sufficient. Against this background, the ibw has set up a multilingual version of large parts of the Job Information Computer BIC in English, Croatian, Serbian and Turkish. This happened by order of the Austrian Economic Chambers www.bic.at.

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