Skills for the Knowledge and Service Society: Trends Determining Future Pre-Service and In-Service VET Needs

Autor/in	Schneeberger, Arthur
Titel	Skills for the Knowledge and Service Society: Trends Determining Future Pre-Service and In-Service VET Needs
Quelle	In: European Journal of Vocational Training, 38 (2006) 2, S.6-23 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0378-5068
Schlagwörter	Postsecondary Education; Lifelong Learning; Labor Market; Vocational Education; Educational Trends; Higher Education; Employment; Adult Education; On the Job Training; Futures (of Society); Economic Change; Foreign Countries; Skilled Occupations; Skilled Workers; Austria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Bildungsentwicklung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Dienstverhältnis; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Training-on-the-Job; Future; Society; Zukunft; Ökonomischer Wandel; Ausland; Fachangestellter; Facharbeiter; Österreich
Abstract	The change-over to a knowledge and service society means greater opportunities for the highly skilled. Participation in tertiary education is increasing in all countries, and it can be seen that graduates are being absorbed into knowledge intensive services in the labour market. The international trend towards making vocational education and training part of tertiary education is a response to changes in the demand for skills and to educational ambitions: post-training training is becoming more widespread. The vast majority of jobs will nonetheless continue to be for "trained operatives" with mid-level and lower-level skills. The decline in the production sector is reducing the scale of simple jobs and is hence a major factor in the increase in specialist training. Many service jobs may not demand lengthy job-specific training, but they do require generic basic academic and behavioural skills. The smaller the job-specific element of the job profile, the greater the element of generic skills required (such as team-working and customer and service focus). Such basic education and training for all young people is therefore becoming increasingly necessary for employability and as a platform for lifelong learning: general adult education ("personality stabilisation") and the importance of job-specific in-service updating training are growing at all levels of the employment system. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10