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Apprenticeship: back to the roots of vocational training

20 August 2008 - The Peer Learning Review (PLR) is a method of policy learning which has been developed and innovated within the EU MEDA-ETE project, as part of the component on apprenticeship and work-based learning. It was applied and tested -for the first time- in Turkey earlier this month, as the ETF’s Helmut Zelloth explains in this interview.

Turkey: progress through decentralisation in education

30 June 2008 - Decentralisation and school autonomy: these are two of the main challenges Turkey has to tackle in order to adapt its labour market to the future needs of the Turkish society. Arjen Vos, ETF country manager for Turkey, considers –ahead of an international seminar on education to be held in the country- that a centralised system “was maybe good for the old Turkey, but it is no longer valid for a modern country”

Development of 'National qualifiation frameworks': Peer review visit, Morocco

26 June 2008 - The peer review visit of the ETF project "National qualification frameworks' will take place in Rabat, Morocco, from 2 - 4 July 2008.

Sustainability essential for the MEDA-ETE project

15 April 2008 - “The cross-cutting issue for this conference is the sustainability of the project outputs and the networks established in the framework of the MEDA-ETE project since 2005,” ETF Director Muriel Dunbar stated in her welcome to the 100 participants at the Annual Forum of the MEDA-ETE project.

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The place that provides the opportunity to exchange information and views and to learn from other members/countries of the MEDA ETE "Apprenticeship network"



The platform for communication and information exchange amongst the members of the network for the Euromed Observatory



This forum is a unique electronic platform for communication and information exchange amongst the members of the MEDA-ETE network for Quality in TVET.



Network of policy makers and experts in career guidance in the MEDA Region

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MEDA ETE in brief

The Education and Training for Employment (ETE) is a regional project that is implemented within the Barcelona process, which has identified education and training as some of the main tools to favour the economic and social development of the MEDA region and to achieve the goals of competitive economies in open markets that are set up in the political agenda of the Euro-Mediterranean region.