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Varia n°160
This varia issue of Formation Emploi illustrates in particular the mosaic of trajectories in the educational and employment systems. For young people who are far from both school and employment, "voluntary military service" may be suitable for those...

Selection practices: at the crossroads of education and employment
This issue of Formation Emploi proposes a longitudinal analysis of selection processes, since the aim is to disentangle the practical effects of selection in education from that in companies. While the prisms of training-employment adequacy and inequ...

Between giving up and launching the project: career change plans challenged by the crisis
An event as unprecedented as it was unexpected, the health crisis interfered with employees’ plans for career change. How did they come to terms with this situation? In particular, what happened to blue-collar workers, or more broadly the least skill...

About environment and competences

A new age of school selection ?

Is the health crisis enough to explain their desire for a career change?
Three years into their working lives, the young people of the 2017 cohort of leavers from education and training saw the early stages of their careers thrown into confusion. Questioned several months afterwards, one third of them stated that the cris...

The third-party employer, an emerging figure in the training-employment link
Retraining is hard work! A survey of unskilled workers
The question of retraining lies at the heart of current employment policy issues. However, wanting to change occupation is no guarantee of completing a retraining programme, even less of finding a job. While low-skilled blue- and white-collar workers...

Contradictions in the professionalisation of initial education
French exceptionalism tested against the Lisbon strategy principles. The case of the Qualifications Framework implementation process
What role does education play in environmental concerns?
Several international studies and reports have highlighted the key role that education plays in raising people’s awareness of environmental protection. The Génération 2013 survey, which includes a questionnaire focused specifically on sustainable dev...

Training pathways through the mobility prism
Mobility is an important (lifelong) issue for training and employment. This Formation Emploi issue highlights the existence of a double social and spatial distance. Sometimes, being mobile creates training or employment opportunities. This mobility,...

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...

Disability facing training and work: towards an inclusive employability?
Young people not in employment, education or training (NEET): the role of basic competencies
A top priority for public policies at both national and European levels, young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) face a risk of exclusion that varies in intensity from country to country. While education level plays a...

Mexico, a training-employment relationship to the test of professional boundaries
The texts in this issue highlight, each in its specific way, the importance of the international dimension for the Mexican economy. It is an opportunity to look at cross-border movements, multilingualism and, in a certain way, migrations. In France,...
Do firms facilitate the construction of competences?

From restructuring to career transitions: a new era of occupational mobility?
The effects of the health crisis have forced businesses in many sectors to deal with a sharp decline in activity, which in some cases is likely to last a long time. A series of measures already exist to support employees obliged to find alternative e...