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Developing Expertise in
Work-Based Learning and
Teaching Assessment (DELTA)
www.deltaproject.eu
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.
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