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Factsheet on financing vocational education and training

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Factsheet on financing vocational education and training
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English

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Workers' organizations

Learning new skills and upgrading existing ones help workers maintain their employability and improve their standard of living. Trade unions play a key role in increasing workplace-based training opportunities. The Global KSP shares, among other resource items, case studies, good practices and research provided by trade unions that highlight their involvement in promoting training at individual workplaces, social dialogue and collective bargaining on skills issues, and participating in developing skills policies and strengthening training institutions.

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Financing of training

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Initial education and training and lifelong learning benefit individuals, employers and society as a whole. Economic principles dictate that the costs for services with public and private benefits should be shared between public and private funding, or else too little training will be provided or taken up. Effective mechanisms for financing skills development vary according to countries’ economic and political circumstances and the degree and level of social dialogue established.

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skpFinanT
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Promotional material

Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.

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Publication Date:
12 Sep 2013
This factsheet aims to provide a brief overview of existing financing schemes for vocational education and training (VET). For the purpose of this overview, a very broad definition of VET is used: it includes apprenticeships, on-the-job training, non-formal and informal learning.
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Financing training

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financing-training
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Vocational training

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vocational-training
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