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Developing Expertise in
                                                Work-Based Learning and
                                              Teaching Assessment (DELTA)
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        Toolkit for Tutors and Mentors





        1. Why work based learning? Facts and figures


            1.1.Overall impact on both learners and company






                                                   Work-based learning in Vocational education and training
                                                   (henceforth VET) provides important benefits, by increasing
                                                   employability and smoother school to work transition. It
                                                   contributes to reducing skill shortages and gaps, reduces youth
                                                   unemployment, increases entrepreneurship and innovation and
                                                   finally has the potential to foster social inclusion.






        In view of these potential benefits, European VET ministers underlined the increasing need to promote work
        based learning (henceforth, WBL) in all its forms and the need to introduce systematic approaches to and
        opportunities for initial and continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors in
        both school and work based settings across the EU in the Riga conclusions (2015). ​(source: EAC-47-2014-4
        Teachers and trainers in work-based learning/apprenticeships)


        Work-based learning is an example of a ​win-win situation​, and notably when the learning takes place in a
        company, as with apprenticeships. The main objective of vocational training: to produce skilled workers with
        flexible qualifications who are mobile and capable of working in their chosen fields . In the empirical
        literature there is a general consensus on the positive effects of apprenticeships in easing the
        school-to-work transition. Cross-country evidence shows that in those European countries where the
        apprenticeship system is most developed young people have better labour market outcomes than in other
        countries. Apprenticeships and work-based learning help young people ​make smoother transitions from
        school/vocational education to employment and allows companies to train their own skilled
        workers.



        IO2:​ ​Toolbox for Tutors and Mentors           DELTA - 2017-1-UK01-KA202-036810   Seite 4



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