The quality of guidance services has become a crucial public policy-making issue in OECD membercountries. In order to improve this quality, some countries are setting up competence standards, introducing market mechanisms or specific managerial proce...

The majority of executives know what possibilities are available in terms of training and take part in career interviews, whatever their company's training policy. Other employees have clearly more to gain from information provided, from the systemat...

The speciality in vocational training is often assumed to generate additional earnings only if the individual obtains a job in the same employment speciality. The results obtained for the youth finishing professional education in 1998, surveyed in 20...

Actes du Séminaire CAPRIGHT, Goettingen, 24-25 Septembre 2008. L'objectif de ce séminaire public était de mettre en débat l'application du concept de « capabilité » à l'analyse des parcours de vie et la comparaison de travaux sur les trajectoires in...

The number of students attending higher education institutions has more than doubled in Europe during the last twenty-five years. The resulting flow of graduates on the labour market may justify the doubts expressed about these young people's career...

Trades in the French construction sector seem to be heading towards a period of stability, if only because buildings are made to last for a long time and therefore require the use of methods which have proved their worth over the years and that of tr...

Vocational training at the workplace during working hours is an essential aspect of lifelong learning, which has been adopted as a priority in European development policy. However, the continuing vocational training uptake rates vary considerably fro...

The Erasmus student exchange programme created 20 years ago is completely in line with the knowledge economy model adopted in Lisbon in March 2000, according to which Europe is expected to become "the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge ec...

Since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957, it has been generally agreed that harmonising the systems of certification used in the European member countries is liable to facilitate employees'personal mobility. Various approaches have therefore been...

The French Law of May 2004, wich introduced new tools for managing lifelong learning, has had considerable impact on firms, which are the main players in the vocational training field. Although some firms have responded rather passively to the new le...

In September 2003, the social partners signed an interprofessionnal agreement known as the ANI, which served as a basis of the French Law of May 2004 on lifelong learning and social dialogue. This legislation has completely changed the occupational t...

One might imagine that after seven years on the labour market, young people have finished with school-to-work transition and started forging a career, taking advantage of the opportunities for advancement available at their firms or gaining promotion...

The urban disturbances which occurred two years ago in France attracted attention to the problems faced by some of the young people from immigrant families, i.e., those who were either born in France of immigrant parents or arrived in this country at...

Searching for information, advice, career guidance, positioning recommendations, obtaining confirmation of eligibility, preparing application f i l e s , and undergoing assessments: the pathway to obtaining a diploma in France via the Validation of A...

The number of jobs provided by the metalworking industries are bound to decrease during the next few years in France. This sector will nevertheless be faced with workforce replacement problems because large numbers of employees are due to retire shor...

In France, adults have generally undergone continuing vocational training during their working hours so far and the aim has not usually been to obtain a diploma. The way the educational system and the labour market are set up has resulted in a sharpe...

The various services provided in the framework of adult career guidance have been evolving during the last few years as the result of European employment policies. Despite the quantitative and qualitative differences in the information, advice and ac...