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Parents stop children choosing vocational route [Education Guardian]                                                                                                        A new study shows that job-specific training has a global image problem - even in Germany. Peter Kingston reports.
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City & Guilds Institute researches international vocational education [Further Education News]

A new Institute is conducting research across nine different countries to build up a global picture of some of the major issues and themes affecting vocational education today. City & Guilds, in consultation with members of the vocational education and training (VET) community is sponsoring the establishment of a new research and development initiative, the City & Guilds Institute, which hopes to act as an information point for the FE community.
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From Bangor to Bangalore, City & Guilds is going global to find good skills training [Times Educational Supplement]

A new research body intended to gather information about good skills training worldwide is being set up by City & Guilds. The City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development will launch in 2008, but is already carrying out a survey in nine countries for what it claims will be one of the most comprehensive studies of different vocational education systems ever compiled.
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City & Guilds funds international research [24dash.com]

Keith Brooker, Director of the City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development, said: “We and other members of the skills community have long recognised the need for an independent research and development body that helps turn policy into practice. That need has become pressing as countries around the world wake up to skills imbalances that have huge social and economic consequences.”
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Views of Hungarian Leaders in vocational education and training sought as part of global consultation [BBJ Hungary]

Professionals in Hungary’s vocational education and training (VET) community are helping the establishment of a new, independent research and development body, the City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development, dedicated to improving international policy and practice.

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