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Major reforms of vocational education and training (VET) are imminent in Sweden and coincide with the publication of this report from the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) on 21 September 2009. At the same time, the current global economic crisis lends urgency to the need for VET to help learners develop the knowledge, skills and competences that suit their talents and match labour market requirements.
The report comments that, while European countries are supporting people and enterprises in the short term through stimulus packages that include training, it takes long-term thinking and systemic developments to prepare the way beyond recovery.
The report illustrates how Sweden integrates the tools and principles developed through European cooperation to make qualifications more transparent, improve the quality of VET and promote mobility, adding a European dimension to the information on the country’s VET characteristics.