ECVET Magazine - Issue 19 (May 2014) - Editorial

Keeping you informed about European Credit System for Vocational Education & Training. The latest issue of the ECVET magazine is available for download: ECVET Magazine - Issue 19 (May 2014).
Editorial
By Carlo Scatoli, Policy Officer at the European Commission, DG Education and Culture. As you know, ECVET is going through its first evaluation exercise, at a time when a consultation is open on a wide ranging initiative on skills and qualifications. By the time this is published, both the evaluation and the consultation will be closed, but it is worth exploring what the ECVET projects might say about the issues they raise.
Leaving the technical questions to the evaluation team, we might have a look at the main objectives of ECVET, and see whether projects are helping out on that front. ECVET is for instance supposed to facilitate the development of flexible and individualised pathways. That is a very high level aim, and individual projects may have addressed only some of its many dimensions. Read more in ECVET Magazine - Issue 19 (May 2014).