In June 2014, the French Ministry of Education published a joint report assessing the policy for combating early school-leaving. This study was the outcome of all stakeholders (Ministries of Education, Employment, city, regional and local authorities, voluntary organisations and users) involved in preventing 150 000 students dropping out of education each year without qualifications.

Links

• ReferNet France
• Loi du 5 mars 2014 relative à la formation professionnelle, à l'emploi et à la démocratie sociale. (in French) [Act of 5 March 2014 on vocational training, employment and social democracy.]
• Atlas académique des risques sociaux d'échec scolaire : l'exemple du décrochage. (in French). [Academic atlas about social risk of academic failure: example of educational dropouts].
• Evaluation partenariale de la politique de lutte contre le décrochage scolaire (in French) [Joint report assessing policy for combating early school-leaving]. More...

ReferNet, Cedefop's European network provides regularly national updates on vocational education and training.Please have a look at the latest news from the member states: 

Austria - individual learning support
by ReferNet Austria
Belgium - a training centre for trainers in French-speaking Belgium
by ReferNet Belgium
Bulgaria - incentives for employers to provide jobs and apprenticeships to young unemployed are included in the new Employment Promotion Law
by ReferNet Bulgaria
Bulgaria - revision of national youth strategy
by ReferNet Bulgaria
Croatia - drafting a strategy for education, science and technology
by Refernet Croatia
Czech Republic - tax benefits for companies in return for VET support
by ReferNet Czech Republic
Estonia - reform of curricula in vocational education and training
by ReferNet Estonia
Finland - restructuring upper secondary education
by ReferNet Finland
Finland - facts about international mobility of Finnish training personnel
by ReferNet Finland
France - assessing policies for combating early school-leaving
by ReferNet France. More...

Adults with upper-secondary VET qualifications generally have lower levels of literacy and numeracy proficiency than people with general upper-secondary education, according to the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). This is not surprising.
For more information on the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), please consult http://skills.oecd.org and http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac. More...

Literacy skills of adults aged 25-64 with general education tend to be higher than for those with vocational qualifications across all European countries covered by the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills.
The latest data can be found in to the OECD’s Education at a Glance 2014 to which Cedefop has contributed for the first time, at
Indicator A1.8 - Skill proficiency by programme orientation
Indicator A5.8 - Skill proficiency by labour market status and programme orientation. More...

Im Rahmen des Projektes Feedbackkultur hat die Fachhochschule Köln dieses Poster zum Thema erstellt.
Nutzen Sie das Poster, um Feedback - ein elementarer Bestandteil einer diversitätsorientierten Lehre - in Ihrem Bereich sichtbar und nutzbar zu machen. Mit dem 'Poster im Rücken' an der Wand wird für die Bedeutung des Themas sensibilisiert und es werden konkrete Hinweise gegeben, wie Feedback gegeben und eingeholt werden kann. An zentralen Stellen der Beratung, der Begleitung von Lehre positioniert, kann mit dem Feedbackgestalter immer wieder auf eine sinnvolle Einbindung von Feedback verwiesen werden. More...

Em educação de infância, a qualidade importa. A investigação tem fundamentado esta afirmação identificando relações consistentes (e persistentes) entre a qualidade dos contextos pré-escolares e o desenvolvimento das crianças. Contudo, a investigação tem também sugerido que determinadas dimensões de qualidade são mais importantes para domínios específicos do desenvolvimento da criança.
ISPA-Instituto Universitário e Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. More...

Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to broaden access to education and to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of teaching and learning in Europe. The best way to put OERs into practice is through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are large-scale courses that represent one of the latest developments in open education, an initiative that is always trying to improve quality, access and equality in education and training.
Elearning Communication Open-Data. More...

Are MOOCs providing the European workforce with necessary web skills?
That is the key question being explored at this upcoming one-day event taking place in Helsinki on November 17th.
Event registration. More...

The conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Learning are now openly available online.
The conference took place on 22-23 September and featured research from across Europe. The conference proceedings are a comprehensive and deep resource, compiling the knowledge of researchers pushing forward the field of online learning in Europe. More...

The OECD's Education at a Glance annual report is a behemoth of a study, with over 100 000 figures and including data from the 34 OECD countries and several partner countries. It provides a full spectrum of indicators describing the state of education in the world.
Education at a Glance 2014. More...