Amongst the different forms of education and learning, vocational training is the one wich is most closely linked to the world of work and production. This has led to increasingly consider vocational training and human resources development as a strategic component of both economic...
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OIT/Cinterfor
Changes in the way of production and the market structures, technological innovation, new models of organization of work, changes in the roles and actions of the State regarding education and training, added to other macrosocial processes, make it imperative to rethink the objectives and...
Kaplún, Gabriel
The book has been structured in the following way: The first part begins by placing the objective of this work in the intersection between vocational training, distance learning and “new technologies” (in which the distance is not such and the newest technologies are combined with old...
Barretto Ghione, Hugo
It is interesting to study this new instrument for a variety of reasons. First, for a number of years, the ILO has been reviewing and updating its stance on labour standards, and the new Recommendation sheds light on this process. Second, the Recommendation contains a series of...
Casanova, Fernando
The new local development approaches have opened up great opportunities for improvement in training and youth employment policies, which have been the subject of searching debates over the last few decades. When we consider young people not so much as a statistical category, or as a group...
A training policy model for enhancing employability and gender equity: The Formujer Programme - 2004
Programa Formujer
The purpose of the FORMUJER Programme (Programme to Strengthen Technical and Vocational Training of Low Income Women in Latin America) is to promote and strengthen the capacities of the institutions of the region to design and implement policies intended to improve the quality, relevance...
Vargas, Fernando
Key competencies and lifelong learning: three perspectives on these subjects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since the second half of the 1990s the labour competency approach has been spreading in the Latin American and Caribbean region, and the extraordinary capacity of the...
Vargas, Fernando
Five years have gone by after the first electronic publishing of this document. During that time, there has been an incredible progress both in terms of conceptual formulations and the application of labour competency. This is why this publication has been made, now printed as well,...
Casanova, Fernando
This publication has been prepared with the precise objective of supporting trade union training activities directed both to negotiate and participate in the management of vocational training strategies, in particular within the working places. It deals with aspects regarding the...
Programa Formujer
Vocational and technical training policies can contribute substantively to the process of expanding opportunities and of overcoming the various manifestations of inequity, poverty and social exclusion, for which purpose the simultaneous challenge of strengthening employability of...
Barbagelata, Héctor Hugo
Many industrial societies are undergoing a dynamic mutation caused mainly by technology, wich propels them into the era of information and communications. Changes are so speedy and dramatic,and inevitably both so creative and destructive from a social point of view, that it is impossible...
Vargas Zúñiga, Fernando
There are many interpretations, methodological approaches and discussions around the labour skills certification. Vocational training actors in the region are increasingly using the principles and methodologies related to competency-based training and certification. But why is the...
Casanova, Fernando; Galhardi, Regina; Gamerdinger, George; Ramírez Guerrero, Jaime; Rodgers, Gerry; Vargas, Fernando
The process of economic globalization has transformed the competitiveness of enterprises, of sectors or branches of activity, and of national productive systems, into one of the main -if not the most important of all- factors conditioning the economic and...
Mertens, Leonard
The basic proposal of this study is to show that it is feasible and profitable to enhance the productivity and working conditions of organisations through the ongoing learning of their personnel. In the author´s viewpoint, training and productivity are strongly correlated concepts....
Training for decent work - 2001
OIT/Cinterfor
It may call the attention that decency and work will join together as a new compound, when, not so far, the expression "a working man" was synonym of a "a decent person". What has happened since then so as to be necessary , in the threshold of a new millennium, "create a paradigm of...
