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1 - e-Skills for e-inclusion

Europe; international
The project ran from September 2016 to August 2019 and dealt with digital education and inclusion in the field of adult education and training. It was funded within the framework of the Erasmus+-programme of the European Commission. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

SkillsCommons - Workforce Development Digital Library

United States of America (USA)
The platform contains free and open workforce training materials for 21st century employment in the United States of America.

3 - Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN)

Europe; Germany; Italy; France; Spain; Sweden; Portugal; Netherlands; Finland; United Kingdom; Ireland; Denmark; Belgium
The network YERUN was founded in 2014 and has 18 member Universities in Europe. The criterion for membership was that the universities are not older than 50 years. They cooperate in the sector of education, EU policy, graduate employability and research. In 2018, seven member universities came together to form YUFE – Young Universities for the Future of Europe". YUFE wants [...]

4 - Career Guidance: Helping Students Choose Their Future (ITMO News 07.04.17)

Russian Federation
The Russian National Research University for Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in Saint Petersburg (ITMO) published an article on career guidance in its online magazine. The article was written on the occasion of the publication of a study that found out that a great number of university graduates in Russia later on didn't work in the field they had actually [...]

5 - Study in Holland (EP-Nuffic)

Netherlands
"Study in Holland" is a portal created by the organisation EP-Nuffic which supports internationalisation in education in the Netherlands. The website provides information on all aspects of studying in the Netherlands, as well as practical information on everyday life. Furthermore, you will find information on options after having studied, concerning the labour market or [...]

6 - Reformperspektiven der Berufsbildung in Griechenland (2013) von Alexandra Ioannidou & Stavros Stavrou

Greece
The article "Perspectives of the VET reform in Greece" (courtesy translation) provides a critical analyses of the reforms of the vocational education and training system that the Greek government planned in 2013. Bibliographic data: Ioannidou, Alexandra; Stavrou, Stavros, 2013: Reformperspektiven der Berufsbildung in Griechenland. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Foundation. [...]

7 - Programa de Estudios sobre Juventud, Educación y Trabajo (PREJET)

Argentina
The "Programme for Studies on Youth, Education and Employment" PREJET gathers sociologists, researchers in education and labour relations. PREJET does research on educational policy, on different forms of (vocational) training and education, on different players and stakeholders in the field of youth, education and employment, on their experience and on the youths' job [...]

8 - Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Indonesia (Fact Sheet)

Indonesia
Fact Sheet of the International Labor Organization ILO (as of July 2013) on inclusion in Indonesia. You can find a somewhat newer version of the fact sheet (as of December 2013), but which has slightly less content. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

9 - Do export booms discourage schooling? Evidence from Indonesia (2015)

Indonesia
Author: Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Draft as of 18 January 2015, do not cite. "Economic growth is strongly associated with increased education, yet export booms in low-income countries often spark an opposite trend. Rapid growth of jobs in low-skill occupations may lower overall returns to schooling and raise dropout rates, especially among teens from [...]

Israel Unlimited (programme)

Israel
"Israel Unlimited" is a programme initiated in 2009 that aims at promoting the inclusion of people with disability in Israel. The programme is a partnership between the Israeli government, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Ruderman Family Foundation. As the progamme hasn't got a website of its own, we link to the articles tagged "Israel Unlimited" [...]

Research Institute for Vocational Training and Adult Education (IBE)

Austria
The IBE was founded in the year 1980 as a non-profit assoication by the worker representiative organization, unions, companies and the Johannes Kepler University Linz. The intention of this foundation was to establish a research institut which does education research from employee´s perspective. So the basis for present academic work was laid - the exploration of the labour [...]

Association of Teachers of Secondary Education

Costa Rica
The Association of Teachers of Secondary Education (APSE) of Costa Rica has the objective to improve the professional conditions of its members with regard to the scientific, legal and social norms which determine the teaching profession. Also, it defends the labour laws of its members as well as their social and economical interests and promotes the development of a solidly [...]

Agency for the Development of the Information Society of Bolivia

Bolivia
The Agency for the Development of the Information Society of Bolivia (ADSIB) has the objectives to make policy proposals, to implement strategies and coordinate activities which effect the reduction of the digital breach in the coutnry through the impulse of ICT in all its fields. Also, ADSIB undertakes actions which establish a knowledge society in Bolivia, promotes the [...]

National Learning Service

Colombia
The National Learning Service (SENA) aims for the social and technical development of the Colombian workers by offering and executing a free, integral professional vocation to incorporate and form persons active in productive fields which contribute to the social, economical and technological development of the country.

15 - Le Portail Étudiant

France
The portal, maintained by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, provides information about the studies in France covering all important fields of studying and students' life like subjects of study, inscription and admission procedures or legal questions, furthermore an overview of financial issues (grants and scholarships), details for handicapped students, [...]

Articulation Project

Argentina
The "Joint work project of UNGS, ISFD and the middle schools for the improvement of the success in learning" (PROYART) was founded with the intention to ameliorate the quality of learning of the youth on polymodal level in the fields of mathematics and language. It developed a cooperative work model which connects the activities of the three involved institutions to offer [...]

17 - Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators

international
"OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries´ performance. It provides a broad array of comparable indicators on education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the current state of education internationally. The indicators show who participates in education, how much is spent on it, and how [...]

18 - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop): Statistics and indicators

Europe
Cedefop´s work on statistics and indicators supports and contributes to statistical developments at European and international levels to improve the relevance and quality of data as well as methods and tools for data collection. Cedefop´s statistics and indicators work also aims to support evidence based policy and practice in vocational education and training, lifelong [...]

19 - Centre national de l`information, de l`orientation scolaire et professionnelle, et des bourses (CIOSPB)

Burkina Faso
The Centre national de l'information, de l'orientation scolaire et professionnelle, et des bourses is the official service centre of the Ministry for secondary and higher education and scientific science from Burkina Faso. Its agenda concentrates on the preparation and allocation of information for students in schools and universities aiming to help them with information and [...]

Junior Achivement Dominicana

Dominican Republic
The Junior Achivement Dominicana is a non-profit service organisation which supports the development and the execution of education programs in economic and vocational aspects and aspects of human relations of children and the youth: through helping them to understand the importance of the economy of the free market, the roll of the bureaus and negociations in global economy, [...]

21 - Workforce Development Authority (WDA)

Rwanda
Workforce Development Authority (WDA) is an institutional framework to provide a strategic response to the skills development challenges facing the country across all sectors of the economy. Its mission is to promote, facilitate and guide the development and upgrading of skills and competencies of national workforce in order to enhance competitiveness and employability.

22 - Uganda Association of Private Vocational Institutions (UGAPRIVI)

Uganda
The Uganda Association of Private Vocational Institutions (UGAPRIVI) is an umbrella organization for Private Training Institutions formed to improve the quality and the image of private vocational institutions, and to strengthen this educational sector as a whole. Its main aim is to foster collaboration between private training institutions throughout the country and to [...]

Ministry of Education: Education Statistics

Spain
The ministry of education offers statistics on non-university and university education.

Education System Support Programme

Cameroon
The Education System Support Programme was officially launched on 7 December 2006 by the Secretary-General of the Prime Minister’s office who equally installed the management organs of the project. The ministries concerned were the Ministry of Basic Education, the Ministry of Secondary Education and the Ministry of Higher Education. The programme's objectives were the [...]

25 - Hopeland Institute

Algeria
Hopeland is an Algerian communications and community service project management firm located in Algiers. While assisting a company to associate its good name with good works in Algeria, Hopelands primary objective is to help improve the quality of life of the Algerian people through public service projects, with a focus on education. Hopeland Institute in Cheraga, Algiers, [...]

Ministry of Professional Formation and Education

Algeria
The main objectives of the Ministry for Professional Formation and Education (MFEP) are: * To assure professional qualification which allows to find the right profession or to create an own enterprise * To offer to workers a complementary education which allows to extend or to deepen professional skills to adapt to the evolving labour market * To provide economic operators [...]

Regional Conference of Western Universities

Algeria
The Regional Conference of Western Universities (CRUO) consists of the following members: Responsible persons of higher education and research institutions which carry out relevant research for the Ministry for Higher Education and Scientifical Research, the representative of the general director of the national bureau for university work and the secretary of the CRUO. The [...]

Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Training (öibf)

Austria
The Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Training (öibf) is a scientific, non-profit, independent research institute founded in 1970. It manages and carries out research and development in various areas of vocational education and training (VET). Fields of research are initial and further education and training, vocational guidance and counselling, evaluation [...]

Walloon office of professional training and emploiment

Belgium
FOREM is a priviledged partner in matters of human resources of enterprises on the fields of: Distribution of employment offers, councelling concerning recruitment, professional orientation of the staff, professional vocation training of the (future) staff. Also, it accompanies job-seekers on their professional project on the fields of: job search, provision and utilization of [...]

Institute for Industrial Research - Research Department for Education and Labour Market

Austria
The sphere of competence for education and labour market of the IWI carries out studies and reports about the themes "educational system and - policy", "formation and further education", "entrepreneurship", "labour market" and "gender mainstreaming". A focal point of research deals with the problematic of disadvantaged target groups in advanced vocational training and [...]

Institute of higher education and research

Côte d'Ivoire
The institute of higher education and research was created in 2006 bey the BNETD to contribute to the higher education in technical disciplines and in management. One of its main goals is to provide the ivorian youth furnished with a university degree with profounder knowledge, theoretical as well as practical, to facilitate them the access to the job market. Furthermore, [...]

32 - National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance (EOPPEP)

Greece
EOPPEP is the National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance, an all-encompassing statutory body investing on better quality and more efficient & reliable lifelong learning services in Greece. EOPPEP operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs and is seated in Athens. It has derived from the [...]

33 - Learning for Jobs – The OECD Policy Review of Vocational Education and Training (VET)

international; Australia; Austria; Belgium; China, People's Republic of; Chile; Czechia; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Korea, Republic of (South Korea); Mexico; Norway; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom; United States of America (USA)
The review aims to bridge the gap between learning and jobs, by exploring how to make initial vocational education and training for young people respond better to labour market requirements. It therefore looks at initial VET in schools, colleges, workplaces and other institutions, offering policy messages for all OECD countries, alongside concrete advice on policy reform in [...]

34 - Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program

Canada
The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) provides a statistical portrait of the elementary, secondary and postsecondary education systems. The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour [...]

35 - Education Indicators in Canada: An International Perspective

Canada
This report is a product of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). It is intended to facilitate the comparison of educational systems in Canada's provinces and territories with those of countries that belong to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The document presents a series of indicators harmonized to the definitions and [...]

36 - Education in Canada

Canada
This publication is an annual review of statistics on Canadian education. It summarizes information on institutions, enrolment, graduates, teachers and finance for all levels of education and provides an analysis of the data. Ten-year time series are shown for most variables at the Canada level and five-year time series at the provincial level. The publication also provides [...]

37 - National Report on Adult Education

Tajikistan
The report from 2008 was published by the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association, the National Commission of the Republic of Tajikistan for UNESCO and the Adult Education Association of Tajikistan. Starting from the finding of high unemployment in Tadjikistan, the report presents polictical measures focusing on adult education and [...]

Moldovan Academy of Economic Studies

Moldova, Republic of
Homepage of the Moldovan Academy of Economic Studies. It contains a detailed list of Students' Associations and actors that work on the connection between education and economy.

redEtis - Education, Work, Reintegration

Argentina
The Red Educación, Trabajo, Inserción Social (redEtis) produces and disseminates knowledge on the current Latin American discussions and policies about education, work and social inclusion. It serves as a bridge between policy makers, practitioners and researchers that facilitates co-operation and networking. The site offers research reports on the situation of education [...]

40 - Study in Korea

Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
The Homepage provides information on the Korean education system, study abroad in Korea and learning the Korean language. The site also offers lists of universities and information about working in Korea as well as culture and everyday life in Korea.

41 - AMS-Forschungsnetzwerk

Austria
The Public Employment Service (PES) research network of the PES Austria, Dep. for Labour Market Research and Vocational Information contains a comprehensive information system and a service platform, whose goals are to present and utilise results and activities in the fields of labour market, vocational, educational and qualification research. Research (e.g. full text [...]

42 - Schools Recruitment Service

United Kingdom
This archived service provided information regarding recruitment of teaching and supporting staff at schools and other educational institutions, i.e. teachers, teaching assistants, special needs education specialists, receptionists etc.

43 - (National) Learning and Work Institute

United Kingdom; England; Wales
In 2016, the ‘National Institute of Adult Continuing Education’ (NIACE) and the ‘Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion’ (CESI) formed the new 'Learning and Work Institute'. This policy and research organisation is dedicated to lifelong learning, full employment and inclusion. Thematical areas include 'Life and Society', 'Work and Careers', 'Improving the [...]

44 - Department for employment and learning

Northern Ireland; United Kingdom
The government of Northern Ireland's department for employment and learning seeks to qualify young people for emplyoyment and to secure their participation in the labour force, it provides funding opportunities for further and higher education and training, statistics and research.

45 - myScience.ch - The Swiss Portal for Research and Innovation

Switzerland
This portal gives an overview of sciences, employment, funding, research area, universities and other research institutions in Switzerland. myScience.ch provides also practical information about research mobility and living in Switerland including immigration, taxation, driving licenses and legal issues. It is intended for researchers and students, and all those who are [...]

46 - Department of Higher Education and Training

Maldives
This is the official Site of the Ministry of Higher Education Employment and Social Security, it provides information about labour market regulations, training and study opportunities as well as scholarships.

47 - Education at a Glance 2007

international
The 2007 edition investigates the effects of expanding tertiary education on labour markets. Graduation rates from higher education have grown significantly in OECD countries in recent decades, but has the increasing supply of well-educated workers been matched by the creation of high-paying jobs? Or will everyone with a university degree some day work for the minimum wage? [...]

48 - Library of the International Labour Organization (ILO)

international
The ILO (International Labour Organization) Library in Geneva is the world's leading library on the world of work. It serves as a knowledge base of key information on work issues, sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development, technological change and human rights. The ILO Library is the core repository of ILO publications produced [...]

49 - Work in Denmark

Denmark
An official internet portal for researchers and professionals interested in an international career in Denmark.The homepage 'workindenmark. dk' is created to make it easier for foreign knowledge workers to gather information on moving to, working, and living in Denmark. It also contains information directed at Danish businesses and research institutions.

50 - Uddannelsesguiden

Denmark
Guide to more than 2.000 education programmes and jobs in Denmark. You will find special sub-sites for youth education, higher education, adult education and infirmation for parents.

51 - E2C-Europe The European Association of Cities, Institutions and Second Chance Schools

Europe
The European Association of Cities, Institutions and Second Chance Schools is an international network organisation in the field of teaching or enabling young people with lack of skills or qualifications to successfully gain access to education programmes or to the labour market. The Association is an independent non-profit organisation. The main aims of the Association are [...]

52 - World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation

international
The theme of The World Development Report 2007 is youth - young people between the ages of 12 to 24. As this population group seeks identity and independence, they make decisions that affect not only their own well-being, but that of others, and they do this in a rapidly changing demographic and socio-economic environment. The report emphasizes the urgent need to invest more [...]

53 - Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE)

United States of America (USA)
CSCCE focuses on issues relating to teachers and providers working in center-based and home-based early care and education settings in the United States. Through research, policy analysis and policy development, the center promotes improvements in job conditions for the early care and education workforce, and in services for children and families. The center publishes a series [...]

54 - Panorama - Zeitschrift für Berufsbildung

Switzerland
The periodical "Panorama" supplies articles on vocational training, vocational education advice, and the labour market. It appears bimonthly, and is available in German and French. Readers can choose between pdf and HTML format.

55 - Employment and Training Corporation (ETC)

Malta
The Employment and Training Corporation is Malta's Public Employment Service. Its objectives are to help employees to find suitable employment and to assist employers to find suitable employees. For this purpose a nation-wide computerised job seekers' database is in use. The ETC provides vocational guidance and training service to clients seeking new jobs and to clients [...]

56 - AMS - Berufsinformationssystem

Austria
the The Austrian analogue to the German Federal Agency for Employment is the "Labour market service" (AMS) and the "Vocational information system", a service company under public law outsourced 1994 from the Ministry of economics. In the AMS Vocational information system there are, divided into 24 vocational fields, ca. 600 descriptions of occupations, links from these [...]

57 - Education and Science

Bulgaria
This education portal offers amongst other things links to education and science, distance education, preschool education as well as to educational institutions and courses in Bulgaria. Information is penetrated by advertising in view of labour market and studies abroad.

58 - Bildungswege für MaturantInnen

Austria
The initiative "key2success" of the Federal Ministry of Education yields information, counselling and orientation for prospective candidates of the school leaving examination at general and vocational education schools. The site offers an internet course supporting the choice of studies or occupation, information about training and further education opportunities after the [...]

59 - Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (AMS)

Austria
The job market service (AMS) offers plenty of information on options for vocational and further education, vocational trends and tests for disposition. A compass for jobs and one for apprentices as well as the information programme "your choice" shall give vocational orientation. The job information centres (BIZ) yield for free a large variety of information media about [...]

60 - Berufsbildungssysteme in Europa

international; Europe
This information on the vocational education systems and the belonging politics, research and praxis of the EU member countries plus Iceland and Norway are provided by ETV ( European Training Village) and CEDEFOP (reference centre in topics of vocational education). Information is available in German, English and the languages of the EU member countries. A thematic overview on [...]

61 - The Role of Technical and Vocational Education in the Education System of the Russian Federation

Russian Federation
This case study, comprising 20 pages, analyzes reform processes in the field of technical and vocational education between 1985 and 1994. It contains the following sections: Interdependence between vocational education and labour market; Reform of vocational education; The State standard as the basis for a new model of vocational education; Vocational education as a means of [...]

62 - Technical and Vocacional Training Coorporation

Saudi Arabia
TVTC is the national Saudi-Arabian board for supervision and coordination of technical education, vocational and continuing training. On its homepage the institution describes its tasks which comprise coordination and control in the following areas: technical education and vocational training, private technical education and training, community service and continuing training, [...]

63 - Instituto Salvadoreño de Formación Profesional (INSAFORP)

El Salvador
This institut is the governing and coordinating body for the development of Salvadoranian vocational education. It develops and conducts programs for various fields of the labour market, plans the whole system of vocational education and advises employers to use human resources effectively. The web site provides information about the mission, strategic objectives and various [...]

64 - Latvian National Observatory

Latvia
The Latvian National Observatory is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Latvia by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This website [...]

65 - Slovak National Observatory

Slovakia
The Slovak National Observatory is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Slovakia by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This website [...]

66 - The Polish National Observatory

Poland
The Polish National Observatory is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Poland by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This website [...]

67 - GO-teaching

United Kingdom
"GO-teaching is a collaborative LEA service to provide supply teachers to schools. We also help schools to find teachers for permanent positions. The service is strongest in the South West of England, from Oxford to Cornwall, and is extending across other parts of the country."

68 - Pôle emploi / Arbeitsvermittlungsstelle

France
The Pôle emploi, a fusion of the Agence Nationale de l`Emploi (ANPE)and the network Association pour l`emploi dans l`industrie et le commerce (Assédic) is a sort of electronic national labour office with regional departments. The website is structured into a room for job seekers and one for employers. Additionally, there is a news corner. Information is provided about job [...]

69 - Tertiary Education in the Czech Republic

Czechia
This is a core document (Prague, 2001 submitted by the Centre for Higher Education Studies of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports for the purpose of comparison with other European countries. This country report consists of six sections. Central part is section 3 on Higher Education which includes almost all essential aspects of this educational level: history, [...]

70 - Instituto Nacional de Cooperación Educativa Socialista (INCES)

Venezuela
INCE is the leading and central organization of professional education in Venezuela and subordinate to the Education Ministry. It is responsible for the entire planning and implementation of vocational education policy and for the promotion of human capital training in certain economic sectors of the labour market. The homepage shows a text about the function of the institute.

Swedish Public Employment Service

Sweden
The Swedish Public Employment Service is Sweden´s biggest employment service. The English website offers detailed information for migrants. Basic information is available in various languages.

72 - OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

international
This website of the OECD provides, sorted by countries, a wealth of documents, publications, news, statistics and information about vocational education and qualifications, labour, labour market, human capital, employment and employment policy, social policy, international migration and related topics in OECD countries and some exclusive non-member-countries.

73 - Unidad der Desarollo Social y Educación

Latin America; Caribbean; North America
This unity of OAS is responsible for the areas of education, social development, labour market and employment policies and culture. It coordinates the programs of the member countries and helps to formulate the respective policies. The URL which provides the current working plan in English language is: http://www.oas.org/udse/ ingles2004/ frameset. html

74 - Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) : Education

Latin America; Caribbean
The Bank was established in December of 1959 to help accelerate economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean; this is done by mobilizing resources for the region (using own capital, fund raising, supplementing private investment). The education website provides information about the work and projects of the Bank.

75 - The European Education and Employment Fair (ORIENTA)

United States of America (USA)
Since 1988 the European Student Fair has been welcoming many young people looking for quality information and for orientation about their future. Concerned with keeping up with the time, The European Student Fair changed its name and concept in 1999 to become ORIENTA, The European Education and Employment Fair. This website is structured according to this aim providing [...]

76 - The Education Canada Network (ECN)

Canada
ECN is Canada´s largest educational e-recruitment resource network with a nationwide online database. Access to the database and joboffers of the provinces and territories, of national and international educational organisations.

77 - American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA)

United States of America (USA)
AFSA is a national education organization supporting school principals at various schools (especially public schools). Broad range of link lists in the field of education with keyword search, labor news, information on scholarship and the organization.

78 - FÁS - National Resource Centre for Vocational Guidance

Ireland
FAS provides information on all educational and vocational training opportunities within the European Union. On the website access to an interactive multimedia career guidance database, a job and course database, reports on Irish vocational education and labour market development. A comprehensive linklist with Irish, European and international URL's.

Study

Sweden
The aim of Studera is to provide prospective Swedish students with relevant information about higher education opportunities, as well as information about careers and postgraduate studies. For non-Swedes the English homepage offers links to websites on international admission to Swedish higher education.

80 - Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA)

Netherlands
ROA is a research institute attached to the Maastricht University. Chief activity is commissioned research and concerns the match between education and the labour market. The labour market and training division and the education and occupational career division are presented on the website as well as more information about the institute, staff, conferences and seminars can be [...]

81 - Länderbericht Niederlande

Netherlands
This report describes the current situation and measures inititated in the 1980ies in the Netherlands to overcome the high rate of unemployment at that point of time. Its written in the context of an EU conference on the subject of integrating youths with a secondary vocational education into the labour market.

82 - Educational Research Centre of Tallinn Technical University

Estonia
This website provides information on the development of the research centre, its statute and its main tasks. In January 1999 the Chair of Educational Policy was set up in this educational institutions. It carries out both research and continuing education.Courses concerning education (educational policy, educational economics and management of educational system) are carried [...]

83 - Confederation of Unions for Academic Professionals in Finland (AKAVA)

Finland
AKAVA - the Confederation of Unions for Academic Professionals in Finland - is a trade union formed by 32 affiliates and with about 400 000 members and with 80% unionization rate. The website provides information: about AKAVA and a list of the 32 affiliates ( without links) , useful general information about trade unions in Finland, about Finnish trade union work in the EU and [...]

National Statistical Institute: Education

Spain
The National Statistical Institute offers a large collection of data on the following topics: university education, transition to the labour market, adult education, education expenditure, pre-university education, information technology in education.

85 - Training Programmes for Omani Nationals

Oman
This website offers for young Omanis, supported by programmes of the government of the Sultanate Oman, comprehensive information for gaining National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ).- In the former British Protectorate the influence of British education on the education system of the Arab state has remained until today. National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) are UK [...]

86 - Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science

Norway
The objective of the Institute is to conduct social science research and studies in the fields of labour relations, welfare policy and living conditions at the national and international levels.Research activities and studies are organised into two institutes: Fafo, Institute for Labour and Social Research (Link!), Fafo, Institute for Applied International Studies.- This [...]

87 - Ministra do Trabalho e da Solidariedade Social: Estatísticas / Statistiken des Arbeitsministeriums

Portugal
The Statistic Department of the Portuguese Ministry of Labour provides pdf-files on vocational education.

88 - Ministry of Manpower

Singapore
The Ministry presents full texts about the programs with which it implements its mission "to develop a learning workforce, supported by a vibrant manpower industry, for lifelong employability and a globally competitive Singapore": a school of lifelong learning, pre-employment education and training, a manpower development assistance scheme and other labour market policies.

89 - Country Study Latvia (incl. Education)

Latvia
This comprehensive country study for Latvia was elaborated by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress in 1995. It provides a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, cultural, economic and political conditions in this country. The table of contents includes a section on "Urbanization, Employment, and Education", which can be found by [...]

90 - Sectoral Activities Programme: Education

international
This website describes the mission and activities of the International Labour Organization in the education sector; links are provided to electronic and print publications of the ILO (e.g. conference papers) and to other international organizations working in related fields.

91 - EP-Nuffic - The organisation for internationalisation in education / EP-Nuffic - Dé organisatie voor internationalisering in onderwijs

Netherlands
EP-Nuffic formed in 2015 out of a fusion of the organisations Nuffic (founded in 1952) and EP (founded in 1990). Nuffic and EP respectively supported internationalisation in higher education and in primary and secondary education. Now, EP-Nuffic provides detailed information on internationalisation in all spheres of education. Information is given as well for Dutch people who [...]

92 - Research Unit for the Sociology of Education (RUSE)

Finland
RUSE is the only institution in Finland specialising in research of the sociology of education and educational policy. It does international comparative research in the field of sociology of education and has established in 1998 the European Postgraduate Network together with eight European countries. The homepage provides information about research areas and projects, [...]

93 - Berufsförderungsinstitut Österreich

Austria
Owned by the Chambers of Labour and the Austrian Trade Union Federation, the bfi's activities focus on vocational education and ( continuing) training for workers as well as educational and occupational schemes for unemployed persons and workers threatened with unemployment. Most of the education and training courses are based on modular systems, so individually tailored, and [...]

94 - European Federation for Open and Distance Learning (EFODL)

Europe
The European Federation for Open and Distance Learning has been established in March 1998 at the transnational conference in Utrecht ( NL). Its has the objective to set up a pan-European network of national networks for ODL that will provide value added services to the benefit of the professional actors involved (e.g. companies, training providers, experts, etc.).- This [...]

95 - Ministère de l`Enseignement Supérieur, de la Formation des Cadres et de la Recherche Scientifique

Morocco
The homepage of the Ministry of Higher Education, Teacher Education and Scientific Research offers the following information: chart of the Ministry's organisational structure, personnel statistics, higher education institutions, educational statistics, educational law and further links to ministries and institutions of national higher education and abroad.

National Institute for Youth

Uruguay
The National Institute for Youth (INJU) is responsible for all issues concerning adolescents and promotes the integration of youth into society by means of education, vocational education, counselling, health education, information, cultural and social work and other political activities. The homepage presents links to texts from these and other areas. The link "C. de [...]

97 - Romanian National Observatory (RNO)

Romania
The European Training Foundation has supported the establishment of a National Observatory in Romania hosted within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) . The Romanian National Observatory (RNO) started its activity in September 1996 as a component part of the National Observatory Network . The National Observatory gathers and analyses information on developments of the [...]

98 - Le Portail de la formation professionelle continue

Luxemburg
Search machine combining several catalogues on vocational training and further education in Luxembourg, mainly offers and providers in this area

99 - National Observatory of Romania

Romania
The National Observatory of Romania is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Romania by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This [...]

100 - National Observatory of Slovenia

Slovenia
The National Observatory of Slovenia is part of the National Observatory network launched by the European Training Foundation in 1996. It identifies priorities and gives advise on policies for further development of vocational training in Slovenia by collecting data on, and carrying out structured assessments of vocational education, training and labour market reform.- This [...]

101 - World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE)

international
The World Association for Cooperative Education is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to helping interested individuals and institutions forge close ties between the classroom and the workplace. It actively advocates cooperative education (also known as work- integrated learning or co-op) around the world. It also provides technical information and assistance to [...]

102 - European Training Village (ETV)

Europe
The Electronic Traning Village has been initiated by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training ( CEDEFOP) using the latest available technology to bring the most up- to-date information in the field of vocational education and training in Europe. The Electronic Training Village facilitates the flow of information amongst and between policy makers, [...]

103 - Finding a teaching post in the

United Kingdom
Information about finding employment as a teacher in the UK.

104 - Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

United Kingdom
"Skill promotes opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK".

105 - Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi (CEE)

France
The centre works on all problems of labour market and occupational research; the homepage leads to the documentation unit with searchable databases, cooperations with universities, publications of the CEE, its research program and seminars.

106 - Le Fabert. (L'enseignement privé en France)

France
This URL provides all information about the private education sector in France. Among others there are links to texts about further education and labour market in this sector, publications and information materials.

107 - Phosphore. Le site des 15 - 25 ans.

France
This web-site offers information for applicants which are valuable for beginning a study time in France. The website contains information about "studies and employment" and includes, among others, links concerning studies abroad; other sections are "leisure time and culture" and information concerning the "daily life" of the prospective students. Places for work and practical [...]

108 - La Guilde des Doctorants

France
The Guilde is an association in the Internet which provides information and resources devoted to PhD-training in France. The homepage has links to information texts about doctoral training, the thesis, labour opportunities for graduates, additional useful links, a search engine, discussion list and journal. (Abridged versions of the French web-site are available in English, [...]

Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment

Tunisia
The website of the Tunisian Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment provides information about the structure and organization of the ministry, presentation of various training programs, studies, statistics and publications, as well as references for foreigners (emigrants) and links to foreign departments.

110 - Window on VET: Developments in VET in Member States of the EU

Europe
This 'Window on VET systems' provides information on recent developments in vocational education and training (VET) in the EU member states and other European countries. There are two main sections: One of these contains EU overviews which are prepared twice each year. The other consists of country specific reports. These sections are available by links.

111 - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Qualifications (CEREQ)

France
The Centre for research on education, training and employment makes studies and statistical surveys on the training - employment relationship. The homepage shows links to texts about the departments, tasks and missions of the centre (documentation centre, publications, bookstore, discussion groups) and services (e.g. a network of associated centres). Direct access is provided [...]

112 - The Training and Employment Authority (FAS)

Ireland
FAS is the National Training and Employment Authority. Through a regional network of 66 offices and 20 training centres, FÁS operates training and employment programmes; provides a recruitment service to jobseekers and employers, an advisory service for industry, and supports community-based enterprises.

113 - Instituto Nacional de Empleo

Spain
The INEM network server includes background information (Framework, Adress and telephone numbers), services offered to the citizen (Employment, Unemployment benefit, Vocational training, Workshops and Handicraft Centres), statistics (monthly advance of unemployment, rate recorded, Employment arrangements, recorded contracts, training courses), specific legislation and further [...]

114 - Istituto per lo sviluppo della formazione professionale dei lavoratori (ISFOL)

Italy
The ISFOL (Institute for the promotion of vocational training for workers) is a public, academic research institution which aims to promote in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, the regions, the social partners, other state administration institutions, the European Union and international organisations the development of vocational training. The website of the [...]

115 - Institut Arabe d`Education Ouvrière et de Recherches sur le Travail

Algeria
The Arab Institute for Workers' Education and Research in the Field of Work was founded in 1974 and is situated in Algiers. Its tasks are to bring together and mobilize the social partners in the Arab countries, to promote the co-operation of the Arab countries in the field of work, to develop the scientific research in the field of work, to collect information on the field [...]

116 - Liste des centres d'information et d'orientation (CIO)

France
This site is produced by the Education Ministry and shows links to the local information centres which can be searched by département or by community. With the link "l'orientation" a small full text about professional orientation of pupils and full texts about aspects of vocational guidance can be selected, e.g. history, recent conceptions, counsellors, European dimension [...]

117 - National Institute of Disability Management and Research

Canada
The National Institute of Disability Management and Research ( NIDMAR) is a cooperative venture between employers and trade unions which conducts research and education directed towards re- integrating disabled workers into the work place. The web site provides links, information on training programs, research activities, products and services, and information on REHADAT [...]

118 - Zeitschrift Bildung Schweiz (Schweizer Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerzeitung)

Switzerland
This site offers an index of contents and a full text archive of the Swiss teacher journal ( "Bildung Schweiz").

119 - Centre d'Animation, de Ressources et d'Information sur les Formations (CARIF)

France
With special reference to the region Ile de France this site offers comprehensive information about vocational training and continuing training opportunities. Additionally, there are full texts about various issues of vocational education: official texts, legal documents and studies, programmes for the introduction of adolescents into the labour market and a special site [...]