Key indicators: education indicators and policies: a practical guide

A project on key indicators in vocational education and training has been managed by the European Training Foundation (ETF), a European Union agency based in Turin. The project focuses on countries in central and eastern Europe, and the New Independent States and Mongolia. Since 1996, National Observatories, small units set up by the ETF and charged with gathering and analysing data on vocational education and training, have been collecting series of comparable key indicators with a view to producing international comparisons on the development of vocational education and training systems, and their links with the labour market.

To help countries construct their own documents and their own systems of indicators, it is necessary to run training schemes for the various countries interested in the construction and implementation of systems of indicators. UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in particular has played a very important role in this field as far as educational planning indicators are concerned, and several examples used in this guide have been taken from work carried out by the Institute: it contains good illustrations of the problems that arise on indicators. However, unlike the work of the IIEP, this document focuses more specifically on problems relating to vocational education and training.

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