May 2025
As part of a technical partnership with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Canadian Vocational Association – Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle (CVA-ACFP) supported a key phase of Jordan’s vocational training…
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Canada. Bridging the Gap: Developing a Flexible Learning Platform for Reskilling and Upskilling
Key Insight
1. Tailoring micro-credentials to the needs of individual learners holds the promise of being more cost effective and motivating.
January-February 2025 Remembering Pierre Morin: A Pillar of the CVA and the DACUM Community
Italy. Does Work-Based Learning Facilitate the School to Work Transition? Evidence from an Italian Reform (Paper)
In 2015, school-work alternation programmes (alternanza scuola lavoro) became compulsory in all Italian high schools, with the purpose of enabling students…
November-December 2024. IN FOCUS: AI
Humans and machines: a match made in productivity heaven. Our species wouldn’t have gotten very far without our mechanized workhorses. From the wheel that revolutionized agriculture to the screw that held together increasingly complex construction projects to the robot-enabled assembly lines of today, …
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Vietnam. International experiences in TVET training as a catalyst for cooperation in training – Insights from TVET Vietnam (Paper)
This paper summarizes the author’s observations and participation in TVET Vietnam to sketch out insights into cooperation in training programs and introduces…
July-August 2024
Canada/Québec. A Québec Qualifications Framework for Recognizing, Comparing and Supporting the Development of Competencies (Summary)
This brief examines the value of creating a Québec qualifications framework as a tool to help structure the education and training system.
May-June 2024
France and Denmark: two continuing vocational training models with different results? (Paper)
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the particularitie continuing training models in France and Denmark in order to examine their differences and similarities…
March-April 2024
Transforming technical and vocational education and training for successful and just transitions: UNESCO strategy 2022-2029
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) connects education and the world of work, unlocking the potential of young people and adults…
January-February 2024 – Meet Our DACUM ANALYSIS FACILITATOR Expert ANGELA RIPLEY
Canada. Looking for a job or career change? These skills will be in high demand in Canada in 2024
As the Canadian economy continues to slow, Canada’s job market is changing, and that’s had an effect on the skills…
November-December 2023 IN FOCUS, AI & CHATGPT
GenAI is an umbrella term for a type of machine learning and a group of algorithms that can create new content, such as text, code, images, videos, and music, or a combination of all of these formats. GenAI generates output in response to a query or prompt using generative models…
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Education at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators
The report provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; …
July-August 2023
Microcredentialing: A Win-Win-Win for Businesses, Students and Educational Institutions
Microcredentials are an essential component of higher ed and must be integrated into the institution as a whole, …
May-June 2023
This paper examines what is known about both the potential and limitations of micro-credentials with respect to enhancing learners’ labour market participation and outcomes, widening pathways from upper secondary to higher…
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Many Canadians will need some kind of training to ensure they have the skills needed to succeed in their current job or to find a new one. However, as of today, Canada has no information system that would help workers…
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Strategy to transform TVET for successful and just transition by promoting skills development for empowerment, productive employment and decent work, and facilitate the transition to more digital, green and inclusive economies and societies.
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Just as the term “cyberspace” connotes a concept of an online, interconnected digital world, separate and distinct from the real world, the Metaverse, too, is a digital construct. However, the Metaverse is a “hybrid” digital paradigm in which digital objects … Continue reading →
September-October 2022
USA. The shared responsibility of skills development Skills development must be a shared purpose, embraced and supported by employers, employees and society at large. Source: Chief Learning Officer
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Canada needs a modern, skills-based approach to talk about employment opportunities. An aspect of this is how we group jobs together. We identified eight new employment clusters in Canada based on underlying skill similarities.
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Understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on skills development This paper synthesizes research on current trends, programmes, policies and uses of AI related to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a resource for stakeholders invested in the future … Continue reading →
March-April 2022
Canada. Microcredentials are surging in popularity, but how should they be shaped? Governments need to be mindful of how microcredentials are developed and the role they play in education and training across Canada.
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What is competence? A shared interpretation of competence to support teaching, learning and assessment. You may be familiar with the word ‘competence’, but how can a clear definition of the term support teaching, learning and assessment?
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CVA/ACFP Newsletter November-December 2021 CVA DACUM TRAINING CALENDAR 2022 DACUM I Training Module : DACUM Analysis Facilitator DACUM I : Facilitateur d’analyses DACUM 21 to 25 March in Calgary, Alberta 9 to 13 May. Virtual, in French 12 to … Continue reading →
September-October 2021
IN FOCUS: Going Digital THE CVA DACUM TRAINING CALENDAR 2021 and new schedule for 2022 2021 DACUM I: Facilitateur d’analyses DACUM DACUM I : DACUM Analysis Facilitator 8 to 12 November in Kpalime, Togo, in French DACUM II Training Module: DACUM and CBT Program Development … Continue reading →
July-August 2021
THE CVA DACUM TRAINING CALENDAR 2021 DACUM I Training Module : DACUM Analysis Facilitator 18 to 22 October 2021, in FrenchDACUM II Training Module: DACUM and CBT Program Development Facilitator 27 September to 1st October 2021, in English 29 November to 3 December 2021, … Continue reading →
May-June 2021
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Canada/Ontario. Microcredentials: Short, focused learning that responds to emerging demands A microcredential is a representation of learning, awarded for completion of a short program that is focused on a discrete set of competencies (i.e., skills, … Continue reading →
March-April 2021
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Why 2020 Will Be Seen as One of the Most Important Years in the History of Education As challenging as this year has been what if COVID-19 is only the test paper and climate change … Continue reading →
January-February 2021
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH COVID-19. Skills development in the time of COVID-19: Taking stock of the initial responses in technical and vocational education and training The survey, which collected data from 126 countries captured the main challenges faced by TVET … Continue reading →
November-December 2020
CVA/ACFP Season’s Greetings On behalf of the CVA/ACFP Board of Directors, we wish you hope, belonging, meaning, and purpose amidst these unprecedented times. Hope is a decision. It is the most important decision we can make. Hope changes everything, starting with our … Continue reading →
September-October 2020 NEW! FACEBOOK
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May-June 2020
IN FOCUS Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Giàu and Yasser Ali CVA certified DACUM Analysis Facilitators Mrs Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Giàu is Vice Rector at Vinh Long Community College, Vietam and Mr. Yasser Ali works as a TVET & Youth Advisor in Lebanon … Continue reading →
March-April 2020 IN FOCUS: COVID-19
DACUM Workshop in Calgary, 27-31 January 2020 Read the testimonials of 3 participants to this workshop To read the Newsletter in English To read the Newsletter in French All the Newsletters
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CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Canada. Understanding the Future of Skills. Trends and Global Policy Responses The report looks at top research and skills training programs that are succeeding internationally, and highlight for Canadian policymakers key features driving success. En … Continue reading →
November-December 2019
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Malawi. Gender Differences in the Effects of Vocational Training: Constraints on Women and Drop-Out Behavior This paper provides experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth, in an environment where … Continue reading →
September-October 2019
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Europe. Aligning teacher competence frameworks to 21st century challenges: The case for the European Digital Competence Framework for Educators (DigCompEdu) Teachers need to update their competence profiles for 21st century challenges. Teaching strategies need to … Continue reading →
July-August 2019
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH UK. The Future of Skills: Employment in 2030 This report maps out how employment is likely to change in the future – including the implications for skills – and anticipates a number of new occupations. … Continue reading →
May-June 2019
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Work-based Learning as a Pathway to Competence-based Education This book provides a rich collection of research and practice perspectives around central topics in the field of work-based learning (WBL). Based on an extensive prior literature … Continue reading →
March-April 2019
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Europe.The Future of Work and Youth This report identifies and discusses five key themes that present challenges and opportunities for young people in Europe in the context of the future of work: skills, access to social protection, workers’ rights … Continue reading →
January-February 2019
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Australia. Work-based learning: A learning strategy in support of the Australian Qualifications Framework The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which work-based learning could potentially improve education and training pathways in … Continue reading →
December 2018
CVA’s PICK OF THE MONTH Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems The report uses logic model frameworks to convey relationships between essential levers (outcomes, drivers and mediating factors) that inform the design … Continue reading →
November 2018
CVA’s pick of the month Canada/Ontario. Competency-based Education: Driving the Skills-measurement Agenda Competency-based education is gaining attention internationally. Because they hold the potential to graduate students quickly, cost-effectively and with the skills needed to meet employer demands, CBE programs are ideally … Continue reading →
October 2018
CVA’s pick of the month Finland. Why the Finns Have Popular TVET The Finnish example is, of course, no blueprint. Finland has begun to place greater emphasis on entrepreneurship, including incorporating entrepreneurship education into the TVET curriculum. Developing countries also … Continue reading →
September 2018
CVA’s pick of the month Work-Process Based Development of Curricula: A Framework Education and vocational education have to be finally presented in an operational form i.e. in a curriculum. In any case, when it comes to Technical Education and Vocational … Continue reading →
August 2018
CVA’s pick of the month Making learning visible; representing skills, competencies and qualifications This discussion paper concerns recent trends and major challenges in developing effective and trustworthy representation of skills, competencies and qualifications. It starts with the recognition that today’s learning opportunities … Continue reading →
June-July 2018 – IN FOCUS The Future of work: Automation, robots and industry 4.0
CVA’s pick of the month The Future of Work We Want: A Global Dialogue This report presents a short summary of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) Global Dialogue on “The Future of Work We Want”, which brought together leading economists, … Continue reading →
May 2018
CVA’s pick of the month Canada. The push to bridge the school-work gap Work-integrated learning grows in popularity at universities across the country. What’s WIL? Work-integrated learning has a variety of definitions. According to Co-operative Education and Work-integrated Learning Canada, WIL is … Continue reading →
April 2018 – CVA/ACFP Archives
The CVA/ACFP ARCHIVES The CVA/ACFP Journals 1965-2002 and the Occasional papers The bilingual CVA/ACFP Journal was published by the association from 1965 to 2002. The CVA Journal was produced under the direction of a bilingual editorial committee and a professional … Continue reading →