#Validation Europe EVC in de Europese context Lieve Van den Brande Leuven, 19 November 2019 Ernesto Villalba
All learning counts All learning counts
European policies Skills Agenda Social Pillar For Europe Education & Training 2020 Visibility and comparability
The 2012 Council Recommendation Member States set validation arrangements by 2018 Provide support for the implementation Update EU Guidelines and EU Inventory
The fundamental values 1. The centrality of the individual 2. Objectives of validation (4 phases) 3. Information, guidance and counseling 4. Stakeholder coordination All learning, irrespective of where and 5. Links to national qualification frameworks 1 when it takes place, is valuable for the 6. Standards and learning outcomes individual and for society. 7. Quality assurance 8. Professional practitioners Formal education needs to be 9. Validation in context 2 complemented by validation of non- 10. Validation tools formal and informal learning.
Identification of competencies Informal learning Acreditation Labour Market Non-formal qualification Non-formal learning Formal Qualification Education Formal learning Integrated guidance and Credits or exemptions counseling system Access Finding a job Individual informed decisions
European Guidelines - clarify the conditions for implementing validation and - highlight critical choices to be made by stakeholders at different stages of the process
The European Validation Inventory on Validation 6 editions published since 2004 Objectives 2005 1 – A trusworthy source of information 2004 2008 2 – Up to date information for peer 1 learning 2 3 3 - Systematic monitoring of progress 2010 4 4 - Both a country-specific and a 5 thematic dimension s covered 2016 5 – Work together with the guidelines 2014 2018 PREMIER!! www.cedefop.europa.eu/validation/inventory #ValidationEurope
A rich source of information ➢ 39 country reports (covering 33 countries) ➢ Providing detailed information by sector ✓ Sub-sector of education ▪ General Education ▪ IVET ▪ CVET ▪ Higher education ▪ Adult education ✓ Labour market ✓ Third sector ➢ Thematic studies ➢ A synthesis of main findings ➢ Compendium of projects www.cedefop.europa.eu/validation/inventory #ValidationEurope
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What is it telling us ? National validation arrangements 23 19 Source: European Inventory 2016 / 2018
Validation strategies Number of countries with validation strategies Source: European Inventory 2018 #ValidationEurope
#Validation Europe Validation arrangements Differently distributed by sector of education Source: European Inventory 2018 #ValidationEurope Source: European Inventory 2016
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2.3 What can be achieved through validation in formal education? #ValidationEurope
Access 27 countries 2.3 What can be achieved through validation in formal education? #ValidationEurope
Exemptions (incl. credits + modules) Access 25 countries 30countries 2.3 What can be achieved through validation in formal education? #ValidationEurope
Certificates Not linked to formal educ Exemptions Access 25 countries 30 countries 15 countries 2.3 What can be achieved through validation in formal education? #ValidationEurope
Award of full or parts of qualifications Certificates Not linked to formal educ Exemptions Exemptions Access Access 25 countries 25 countries 25 countries 30 countries 15countries 29countries 2.3 What can be achieved through validation in formal education? #ValidationEurope
Outcomes of validation % of countries with validation arrangements by type of outcome by broad sector Source: European Inventory 2018 #ValidationEurope
Standards on validation Figure 1.1 Extent to which standards used in the labour market and third sector for validation are the same as those used in formal education 8 5 4 3 3 2 1 1 Exactly the same Equivalent Different No standards used Third Sector Labour Market Source: 2018 European Inventory #ValidationEurope
INFORMATION and GUIDANCE Number of countries that provide guidance in one or more sub-sectors where there are validation arrangements Source: European Inventory 2018 #ValidationEurope
Quality assurance frameworks Number of countries with QA specific for validation Source: European Inventory 2018 #ValidationEurope
Portfolios and combination of methods the most frequently used tools for validation Number of countries by type of method used for validation Source: European Inventory 2016 #ValidationEurope
Some concluding remarks 1 Increasing arrangements and strategies 1 Comprehensiveness? 1 Quality assurance and variety of methods used 1 For all types of training? 1 Guidance and counseling quite common 1 Professionalization of practitioners? #ValidationEurope
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What next? What are the challenges laying ahead? Galway, 721 May 2019 #ValidationEurope
What next ? Update of Evaluation the study Inventory One-off Study on reports, skills PLA audits results …
Key challenges influencing the future of validation in Europe? KEY QUESTIONS
Key challenges influencing the future of validation in Europe? • The overarching objective of validation: visibility and value of learning ➢ How is this objective reflected in national and institutional policies? • Validation and the individual citizen and learner ➢ Which validation methodologies can best respect and reflect the unique character of individual learning experiences? ➢ How validation arrangements can effectively address this need for interconnection and networking across sectors and institutions? ➢ How can guidance and validation work coherently together?
Key challenges influencing the future of validation in Europe? • The political context of validation: lifelong and lifewide learning ➢ How to engage employers and other labour market actors, notably social partners, in validation arrangements and how to bridge between the labour market and education? ➢ How to mobilise civil society in taking forward validation? ➢ How to reach out to individuals, especially low-qualified individuals, to encourage them to engage in a validation process?
Key challenges influencing the future of validation in Europe? Valuing validation • ➢ How to generate trust for individual users to seek validation? ➢ How to ensure that policy makers and stakeholders see validation as a sufficient trustworthy alternative to traditional learning routes? • The design of validation arrangements ➢ How to enhance the shift to learning outcomes in order to allow the validation route to qualifications as indicated above? ➢ How non-formal learning leading to a certificate will be connected to NQFs?
Key challenges influencing the future of validation in Europe? • The professionalisation of validation ➢ How to promote the professionalisation of validation practitioners? ➢ How specific quality assurance mechanisms need to be in validation? ➢ How to best support further research at national and European levels, taking account of ongoing work such as the European Inventory and the European Guidelines? ➢ How this community can be further strengthened, both nationally and at European level? The financing of validation • ➢ How to make visible the benefits of validation; not only the costs?
Validation in Europe: Where are we? What next? Questions session DG Employment, European Commission Galway, 721 May 2019
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