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Languages : es
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Category : Occupational training
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Overviews the new trends and experiences in vocational education and training in Latin America and the Caribbean. Emphasizes current changes, such as the participation of social actors, the modernization of the deliivery process, the adoption of a competency-based approach, distance learning and the use of new information and communication technologies.

Author: João Carlos Alexim
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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This monograph summarizes the main structural and operational components of the framework for the development of vocational training in Latin America. Part 1, "Economic Framework and Population" (Orlando Luebbert), is an overview of social and economic indicators: population, agriculture, industry and productivity, the informal sector, gainful employment and its social framework, and education. Part 2, "Vocational Training Institutions (VTIs) in Latin America in Historical Perspective" (Carmen Gonzalez, M. Luisa Herraiz), describes the origin and consolidation of VTIs, who receives training and why, current legal and organizational frameworks, and funding. Part 3, "Current Vocational Training Issues in Latin America in the Eyes of the Responsible Players," is an extract of the proceedings of the 28th Meeting of the Technical Committee of CINTERFOR, the Inter-American Research and Development Documentation Centre on Vocational Training. It summarizes the following: (1) opening addresses on modernization of production and the capacity of the training world to adapt and respond to market needs and (2) workshops on new vocational training policies, institutional adjustment, and international labor standards and vocational training. Part 4, "New Vocational Training Policies and Strategies in Latin America" (J. C. Alexim), focuses on changes in vocational training resulting from economic and social pressures and demands. Appendixes include a list of institutions responsible for vocational training in Latin American and Caribbean countries and a 29-item annotated bibliography. (YLB)

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ISBN: 9789290882831
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Author: CINTERFOR (Organization)
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Category : Professional education
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Author: María Marta Ferreyra
Publisher: World Bank Group Publications
ISBN: 9781464817069
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) form skilled human capital in two or three years. Through original empirical research, this book explores SCPs? outcomes and returns, their supply, and what makes them good. It draws attention towards a higher education sector that has been typically overlooked in research and policy.

Author: CINTERFOR (Organization)
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Category : Professional education
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Cristian Aedo
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821389718
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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This report contributes to the debate about the quality of education and returns to education investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LCR). It aims to improve our understanding of the links from investment in education and training to labor market outcomes and to provide a basis for policy choices that will strengthen future outcomes. The report is organized in four main chapters. Chapter 2 documents the recent downturn in education earnings premia using standard 'mincerian' regressions based on household survey data. Chapter 3 explores the underlying supply-side and demand-side drivers of the trends in premia. It documents the recent expansion of education coverage in LCR, benchmarks it against other regions, and presents an in-depth analysis of the relative importance of shifts in the supply and demand for skills in generating declining earnings premia. Using a methodological approach first developed by Katz and Murphy, it concludes that demand-side changes appear to be the critical factor. It also analyzes the role of institutional factors, finding that minimum wages also have likely played an important role in the compression of labor earnings. Chapter 4 focuses on trends in student achievement and the cost-effectiveness of secondary education. It analyzes trends data from the OECDs PISA survey of 15-year-old children in secondary education which covered nine LCR countries in 2009. It shows that achievement is improving slowly, but remains well behind the OECD. It presents benchmarking evidence suggesting that LCR may be both under-resourcing secondary education and also getting poor returns per dollar invested -- a classic low-quality equilibrium. Chapter 5 presents evidence on the fit between the skill set of LCR workers and the needs of the economy, applying an approach first developed by Levy and Murnane in the U.S.A. Analysis of the industrial composition of employment in four countries suggests that LCR is lagging in those industries that require relatively sophisticated 'new economy' skills in the U.S.A. Further evidence that cutting-edge firms in LCR might be facing skill constraints comes from the hiring lags registered in enterprise surveys.

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Based on a review of the experiences of over 50 A.I.D. projects in vocational and educational training in developing countries from 1973 to 1989, examines problems of implementing and sustaining vocational education and training programmes in developing countries. Includes brief case studies of Honduras and Jamaica and draws conclusions particularly for the Latin American and Caribbean region.