Terminology and History
– The practice of going abroad to learn has been denoted by different terms in different contexts over the years.
– Placements abroad have been preferred for sending people abroad on placements in public and private enterprise.
– Different definitions may collide when distinguishing between placements and proper jobs.
– Mobility of VET learners can be traced back to the tradition of the traveling journeyman of the medieval guilds.
– Dedicated transnational placement programs appeared after the Second World War.
– In 1981, a binational Franco-German program for placements in VET was established.
– The Comett program from 1987 grant aided placements of students in higher education.
– Mobility in VET took a quantum leap upwards on the agenda of European and national VET-policies in the early 1990s.
Criteria for defining placements abroad in VET
– A placement is carried out in an authentic work environment.
– The participants are given an active role in concrete work processes.
– Placements are for a limited time and planned in a learning context.
– Professional experience is usually required for participation in placement projects.
– Placements are not under the supervision of trained pedagogical staff.
Benefits of apprentices mobility
– Enhances cultural understanding and intercultural skills.
– Improves language proficiency.
– Provides opportunities to acquire vocational skills.
– Facilitates transfer of technology and cooperation between universities and industry.
– Expands employment opportunities and international networks.
Challenges and barriers
– Cultural, socio-economic, and academic barriers to mobility.
– Lack of precise citations in references and external links.
– Tone and style of articles may not reflect encyclopedic standards.
– Limited mobility opportunities for a small minority of VET learners.
– Blurred line between placements and employment abroad.
Take-up statistics and evaluations
– Limited ability to measure placements abroad outside of dedicated programs.
– Difficulties in comparability and gathering information on mobility programs.
– Lack of quantitative data on participation rates and financing.
– Very few evaluations of mobility programs and projects have been conducted.
– More research is needed on the qualitative aspects of placements abroad in VET. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentices_mobility
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Apprentices mobility is the movement of students and teachers in vocational education or training. (VET) to another institution inside or outside their own country to study or teach for a limited time. The term is usually used in the context of European Union (EU) policy.
Under the EU Lisbon agenda, attempts have been made to lower cultural, socio-economical and academic barriers to mobility. Mobile learners are usually divided into two groups: free-movers are learners who travel entirely on their own initiative, while programme students use exchange programmes at department, faculty, institution or national level (such as Leonardo da Vinci II).
