Social Agenda Magazine | Number 41 (July 2015)

The skills imperative

Summary:

Skills and vocational education and training: this is what n°41 of Social Agenda is all about. Tackling employment and social affairs from the skills angle helps connecting the world of education to that of the labour market and tackling the challenges the EU is presently facing in a new, pragmatic way - taking people's concrete needs as a starting point. This issue of Social Agenda will help you follow, and take part in, the making of the EU's future skills strategy which Marianne Thyssen - Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility European Commissioner - will propose in 2016.

Contents:

• Portugal and the Czech Republic - Education
• The skills dimension of migration
• Renewed impulse
• The skills imperative
• Creative synergies
• the building blocks of a skills policy
• Why skills have become so strategic
• Birgit - A permanent position in a city council
• When VET will be taken seriously: Cedefop Director J.J Calleja
• Connecting education and employment Ana Carla Pereira Head of Skills and Qualifications, European Commission

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