Vocational education and training - VET

This research examines continuing professional learning in the pharmaceutical sales industry.
Pharmaceutical-sales is a knowledge-intense, highly competitive and rapidly changing industry employing a geographically distributed workforce. The varied ways in which agents in this industry continue to learn for work are presented and examined. A framework is developed and employed for exploring and reporting fundamental characteristics of ways of learning beyond designation of in/formality.
Findings include the importance of peer-learning for non-co-located peers, the identification of intentional incidental learning, and a non-traditional role for workplace learning in a knowledge-intense and competitive environment.
http://www.adulterc.org/Proceedings/2011/papers/hunter.pdf

The overall aim of these Guidelines is to propose principles and mechanisms that can assist Member States in developing or improving structures and procedures to recognise all forms of learning, particularly the outcomes of non-formal and informal learning. While the Guidelines are not legally binding, Member States’ authorities are expected to make efforts to implement the Guidelines as appropriate to their specific national context. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002163/216360e.pdf

This paper will focus on four discreet but integrated aspects of the broader education and training system, within the broader context of sustainable development in Africa. It examines generic understandings of validation, recognition and accrediting non-formal and informal learning, the facilitating role that [National Qualification Frameworks] NQFs can and are playing in recognition, the analysis and conclusions from case studies from six African countries, and it concludes with suggestions about how validation and recognition policies and practices of non-formal and informal learning can be key building blocks towards lifelong learning and sustainable skills development in Africa. http://www.adeanet.org/triennale/Triennalestudies/subtheme1/1_3_04_Shirley_STEENEKAMP_en.pdf

Synthesis of an assessment model and accreditation competences acquired through work experience and other non-formal and informal education, where the candidates aim to obtain a recognition official certification.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1yibwqA-QtIJnZI4TWLM-1ZEC-z_0lUAaMPF4XGeCd9vGRNdnoTuXnjQtb4g0/edit

Contribution of Rafael Barrio Lapuente
Servei de Planificació i Desenvolupament de RRHH
Direcció de Serveis de Recursos Humans
Area d'Hisenda i Recursos Interns
Barriolr@diba.cat