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 point at which a young person drops out of education is generally the moment when longstanding disaffection suddenly emerges into the full light of day. While it is always difficult to put an end to early school leaving, might not action to reduc...

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...

Many measures, involving a large number of actors, have been put in place to fight early school leaving. Each scheme or programme has its own system of counting, suited to its own particular remit, and the figures obtained vary by as much as 100%. Th...

Occupations and skills observatories produce tools that can be used by industries, firms and employees. The various actors in vocational training regard them as playing an important role. This being so, their position is in need of strengthening; mor...

Greeting jobs require an extensive set of professional skills and practices. Over and above the wide range of jobs involved, the most obvious aspect of this skill set is the relational component. It also has a less visible aspect,namely self-organisa...

Young people who left higher education in 2007 have found it more difficult to find employment as a result of the economic crisis, as the 2010 survey of 2007 cohort of HE leavers shows. However, although unemployment has increased, job quality has, o...

'Young people with fewer opportunities' (YPFOs) are the priority target of the most recent European programmes for young people. A social experiment, funded by the Fonds d'expérimentation pour la jeunesse/Fund for Experimental Youth Projects and eval...

Students completing environment-related courses are encountering greater difficulties in finding employment than their peers in other disciplines. The reason is that the supply of new graduates exceeds firms' requirements. However, this general obser...

A first for Céreq's Génération survey: at the end of 2008, results showed that the unemployment rate for young women had fallen below that for their male counterparts. Higher shares of young men have no qualifications and consequently are suffering m...

Occupation-based approaches to human resource management are on the increase in firms and government departments. They provide a means of identifying, describing and enhancing the standing of these organisations' activities and jobs. They are also a...

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...

One proven way of protecting oneself from 'precarity' and unemployment is to obtain a university degree. However, some PhDs are experiencing increasing difficulties in finding stable employment. Traditionally destined for careers in academic and othe...

French youths with an Advanced Vocational Training Certificate (BTS) or a Technological University Diploma (DUT) enjoy favourable conditions of transition to work. The prospects of those who continue to pursue further studies are even better on the w...

In order to reduce the numbers of apprenticeship training contracts which fail to be completed, the reasons for these failures have to be determined. The results of this study show that in some cases, the outcome was not actually negative and that so...

In just over twenty years, the vocational baccalauréat has gradually become an established part of the range of qualifications available to French youths. However, the modes whereby this diploma has been integrated into the landscape have differed co...

Applicants undertaking VAE procedures are not all on an equal footing. 70% of those applying for level 5 qualifications (ISCED level 2) are employed in the field of healthcare and socialwork. The associations in this sector provide a particularly fav...