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What certification for transversal competences in France?
Since the Act of 23 April 2005 came into force, curricula in the compulsory stages of education have been drawn up on the basis of a “common core of knowledge and competences”. Updated and extended by the 2013 Act, this common core is the French vers...
A comparative perspective on training in Europe: French companies hit a glass ceiling
Since 2005, European companies’ training effort has been growing and practices have been diversifying. French companies, which were initially among those providing the most training, have shown great stability over time, having for the most part reta...
Subcontracting in value chains: the weak link in firm-based training
Subcontracting strategies in labour-intensive industries have escalated over the past forty years. They are reflected in the fragmentation and geographic dispersion of the activities that make up the so-called value chains. It is already known that t...
Training in small companies: a reflection of their strategic positioning
It’s an old truism that small companies in Europe provide less training for their employees than the largest ones. In France, the training practices of companies with fewer than 50 employees turn out to be very diverse. New data, drawn from the Défis...
Employee training 2.0: the lever effect of ICTs
Including non-formal sector qualifications in National Qualification Frameworks: a challenging process
A comparative analysis of 7 European NQFs reveals different patterns of inclusion of non-formal sector qualifications awarded outside the traditional educational context. However, all countries have in common the quest to achieve a good compromise be...
Ministry of Labour qualifications tested in the field
The French certification system is complex. Compared with other European countries, one of its specific features is that it is largely state regulated. Many ministries play a part in it. Existing alongside the qualifications awarded within the nation...
Adapting skills : a challenge digital companies have to meet
Innovation is a key factor in growth in the digital sector. In order to foster innovation, digital companies must, to a greater extent than elsewhere in the economy, recruit skilled personnel and ensure that their employees' skills are maintained and...
Company-based training vs. employees' aspirations
Although employees in low-skilled jobs are as likely as any others to express an interest in receiving training, they actually submit significantly fewer applications for training. How can this gap be explained? While a wish to receive training goes...
Work at the heart of firm-based learning
For most employers, employees acquire competences less by taking part in organised training programmes than by carrying out their work tasks. The training and employee trajectory surveys show that employees whose work dynamics offer the best opportun...
Post-hire training: a means of integrating and retaining new recruits ?
New recruits receive less training than employees with longer job tenure. Training on entry into post is provided less frequently for formerly unemployed individuals than for people already in employment prior to recruitment. Nevertheless, the fact o...
The training and employee trajectory surveys: a new look at in-firm training
The first strand of the French training and employee trajectory surveys (dispositif d'enquêtes sur les formations et itinéraires des salaries/Defis), carried out in 2015, provides a more detailed picture of firms' use of continuing vocational trainin...
SMEs are increasingly interested in the effects of training
When holders of the baccalauréat return to education or training
Increasing numbers of young people who left school with the baccalauréat are returning to education or training in the first few years after their departure from the education system. This trend does not simply reflect a strategic withdrawal in the f...
Continuing training for employees in Europe: the differences between countries continue to narrow
More European employees undertook training in 2010 than ten years previously. The latest European survey of continuing training in enterprises also shows that there are still considerable differences between countries, even though they are tending to...
Across-the-board support required for VAE procedures
VAE procedures are frequently perceived to be protracted,but their length is not the only reason why withdrawals areso frequent. Evaluation of an aims and means contract (AMC )for VAE in Brittany highlights the importance of across-theboardsupport, f...
The individual right to training: a modest record
With an access rate of just 6.5% in 2010, the individual right to training (IRT) has not achieved the success expected of it. Moreover, the average number of hours' training undertaken has stagnated at around 20. A lack of information and support for...
Training older workers: a policy in need of updating
Training older workers to keep them in work? The idea is very much in vogue. Nevertheless, concentrating efforts on older workers is not necessarily a panacea. After all, age merely reinforces the strong link between access to training and level of q...