QC-VET: Quality Culture in Vocational Educational and Training
QC-VET TOOLS
In the context of the QC-VET project, four individual tools have been developed in order to support motivation and engagement of VET staff in the implementation of quality initiatives at VET institutions/organisations.
Who are they for?
These Online Tools are addressed to Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers, who aim at motivating and engaging VET teaching and administrative staff in the implementation of quality initiatives.
How can these Tools help me?
The VET providers will find a set of tools that can be used to assess the level of staff involvement and compliance with specific quality indicators and specific Guidelines that provide specific ways to VET providers for the enhancement of Quality Assurance Systems according to EQAVET (European Quality Indicators in Vocational Education and Training).
THE TOOLS – AT A GLANCE!
Quick Scan QA
Working towards EQAVET
Staff involvement
Quick Scan WBL
Quality Culture in Vocational Education and Training (VET) - Current Situation and Challenges: The European Reference Framework
Specialists from Greece, Sweden and the Netherlands, collaborating for the Erasmus+ project QC-VET, participated in the project’ s final conference which took place in Larissa, Greece and it was organised by DIMITRA Educational Organisation in collaboration with the Municipality of Larissa. The conference highlighted the importance of promoting the Quality of Vocational Education and Training philosophy at both national and European level. The interest was great and more than 140 people had the opportunity to get valuable insights on the subject “Quality in Vocational Education and Training (VET) - Current Situation and Challenges: The European Reference Framework”. The audience had also the chance to attend the presentation of the e-tools that were created during the project at European level and support the motivation and involvement of VET staff in implementing quality initiatives.
This is where the “Promoting quality culture in VET“ project is aiming at!
The overall objective of the project is to support VET leadership in motivating and engaging VET teaching staff in the implementation of quality initiatives at VET institutions by improving prior elaborated guidelines.
These guidelines promote the engagiment and motivation of teaching staff regarding quality initiatives in 4 different phases of the quality cycle (planning, implementation, evaluation and review). The guidelineswill be developed based on the EQAVET quality cycle in an interactive form in five different languages. The guidelines will be supplemented by best practises, practical advice and examples.
The impact of the project will be:
- the empowerment of teaching staff with regards to quality initiatives in VET-organisations,
- enabling VET-organisations in overcoming the present barriers in utilization of evaluation results of QA-initiatives in their review and improvement processes,
- facilitating the work of EQAVET in monitoring the impacts of their Quality models and indicators in VET-organisations at EU-level.
Does it sound familiar?
- Facilitate further motivation and engagement of teaching staff in quality initiatives,
- Enable teachers’ active participation in review and planning for improvement of the VET activities,
- Promote a shared vision on VET education and quality perception within VET institutions, and
- Promote EQAVET as a common European-wide platform for quality assurance in VET since the guidelines will be based on the quality cycle, indicators and descriptors of EQAVET.