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LEVEL 1: SHAPING VET-BUSINESS

1.1 Innovating educational pathways

1.1 Innovating

educational pathways

Involving employers in developing and/or adapting new educational pathways,
curricula and/or occupational profiles for VET, ensuring the link between theory
and practice in workplace-based education.

When VET providers start to engage with employers, the first step is to
understand the competences needed at the workplaces, giving VET providers
the opportunity to obtain this information directly from the employers and their
staff. Professional profiles are continuously changing, depending on the

dynamics and innovation of the labour market. Thus, it is necessary to update
VET programmes, ensuring relevant competence acquisition, and to involve
employers in giving recommendations and in supporting on-the-job learning.

A VET pathway must embed a stable core curriculum and flexible elements.
Learners need to be provided with a strong foundation of key transversal
competences, including critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and
entrepreneurship. Simultaneously, they need to acquire specific technical skills
needed for the labour market, that nowadays change often especially due to the

quick evolution of IT and industry. Subsequently, this leads the way for a fully
integrated VET pathway that can provide competent professionals the resources
to adapt to the labour market needs.

Furthermore, VET must promote the employability, productivity, and
competitiveness of learners, so they can contribute to the innovation in
companies. That is why it is important that employers have a voice in the design
and development of a VET training curriculum, inspiring them to be innovative

and leading the way to help them to adapt to the companies’ reality.

Consequently, it is important to further enhance the relevance of VET curricula
to the labour market. A learning outcomes approach can strengthen VET

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