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Ernesto Villalba #Validation Europe Lieve Van den Brande Leuven, 19 November 2019 EVC in de Europese context
Ernesto Villalba
#Validation Europe
Lieve Van den Brande
Leuven, 19 November 2019
EVC in de Europese context
All learning counts
All learning counts
Social Pillar
Skills Agenda
For Europe
Visibility and comparability
Education & Training 2020
European policies
Member States set validation arrangements by 2018
Provide support for the implementation
Update EU Guidelines and EU Inventory
The 2012 Council Recommendation
1. The centrality of the individual
2. Objectives of validation (4 phases)3. Information, guidance and counseling4. Stakeholder coordination5. Links to national qualification frameworks6. Standards and learning outcomes7. Quality assurance8. Professional practitioners
9. Validation in context
10. Validation tools
The fundamental values
All learning, irrespective of where and when it takes place, is valuable for the individual and for society.
Formal education needs to be complemented by validation of non-formal and informal learning.
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Formal Qualification
Non-formal qualification
Acreditation
Access
Credits or exemptions
Identification of competencies
Non-formal
learning
Informal
learning
Formal learning
Finding a job
Labour Market
Education
Individual informed decisions
Integrated guidance and counseling system
European Guidelines
- clarify the conditions for implementing validation
and
- highlight critical choices to be made by stakeholders at different stages of the process
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1 – A trusworthy source of information
2 – Up to date information for peer
learning
3 - Systematic monitoring of progress
4 - Both a country-specific and a
thematic dimension s covered
5 – Work together with the guidelines
Objectives
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2018 PREMIER!!
2016
2008
The European Validation Inventory on Validation6 editions published since 2004
www.cedefop.europa.eu/validation/inventory
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➢ 39 country reports (covering 33 countries)
➢ Providing detailed information by sector
➢ Thematic studies
➢ A synthesis of main findings
➢ Compendium of projects
A rich source of information
www.cedefop.europa.eu/validation/inventory
✓ Sub-sector of education
▪ General Education
▪ IVET
▪ CVET
▪ Higher education
▪ Adult education
✓ Labour market
✓ Third sector
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Enkele resultaten …
Source: European Inventory 2016 / 2018
What is it telling us ?
National validation arrangements
1923
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Source: European Inventory 2018
Validation strategiesNumber of countries with validation strategies
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Source: European Inventory 2016
Validation arrangementsDifferently distributed by sector of education
Source: European Inventory 2018
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#ValidationEurope2.3 What can be achieved through validation in formal education?
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Access
27 countries
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Exemptions (incl. credits + modules)
Access
25 countries
30countries
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Exemptions
Access
25 countries
30 countries
Certificates Not linked to formal educ
15 countries
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Award of full or parts of qualifications
Exemptions
Access
25 countries
25 countries
29countries
Exemptions
Access
25 countries
30 countries
Certificates Not linked to formal educ
15countries
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Source: European Inventory 2018
Outcomes of validation% of countries with validation arrangements by type of outcome by broad sector
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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
Source: 2018 European Inventory
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2
3
1
8
4
5
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Exactly the same Equivalent Different No standards used
Third Sector Labour Market
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Number of countries that provide guidance in one or more sub-sectors
where there are validation arrangements
Source: European Inventory 2018
INFORMATION and GUIDANCE
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Source: European Inventory 2018
Quality assurance frameworksNumber of countries with QA specific for validation
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Portfolios and combination of methods the most frequently used
tools for validation
Source: European Inventory 2016
Number of countries by type of method used for validation
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Some concluding remarks
Increasing arrangements and strategies1
Quality assurance and variety of methods used 1
Guidance and counseling quite common1
Comprehensiveness? 1
For all types of training? 1
Professionalization of practitioners? 1
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Galway, 721 May 2019
What next?
What are the challenges
laying ahead?
Update of the
Inventory
Study on skills audits
Evaluation study
One-off reports,
PLA results…
What next ?
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?
Key challenges influencing the future of validation in Europe?
Questions sessionDG Employment, European Commission
Galway, 721 May 2019
Validation in Europe:
Where are we?What next?
