Projects and monitoring

Issues and Trends

The OBS SFIVET is currently working on the following issues and trends

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Since the restructuring of nursing and caregiving activities under the Federal Act of 13 December 2002 on Vocational and Professional Education and Training, new training programmes and ordinances have been steadily developed for the nursing and caregiving professions, at both upper-secondary level...

Study mandated by OdASanté

Nursing and caregiving qualifications

Nursing care relies to a large extent on having complete and up-to-date patient data at the right time and place. Digital communication tools can be very helpful in this. In this project, we observe how digital communication tools are being used in real working situations in hospitals and identify...

Digital technologies in clinical nursing

Using digital tools to share patient data: time to change how we think about communication?

Between 16 March 2020 and 8 June 2020, the corona lockdown led to a nationwide ban on face-to-face teaching at tertiary level. In order to ensure the continuity of teaching at professional education institutions, an immediate transition from conventional teaching to distance learning was necessary...

Distance learning at professional education institutions

Teaching before, during and after the corona pandemic: challenges and opportunities

The federal vocational baccalaureate (FVB) is a success story. Since its introduction, it has greatly increased the proportion of baccalaureate holders in Switzerland and significantly facilitated access to higher education for holders of vocational qualifications. In recent years, however, FVB...

Study of the federal vocational baccalaureate

Education trajectories, challenges and potential

As the Swiss population ages, the risk of labour shortages in healthcare and nursing increases. In order to ensure an adequate number of skilled workers in these fields, the...

Career paths studies in health care

Vocational qualification in healthcare and nursing – what are the real needs?

A functioning VET system with nationally recognised vocational qualifications requires a certain degree of regulation. Host companies are therefore required to carry out additional administrative work when providing workplace training to apprentices. This study is intended to help identify ways to...

Administrative burden in vocational education and training

Easing the administrative burden on host companies through less bureaucracy

The willingness of employers to offer apprenticeship training is greatly dependent on the costs and benefits they associate with apprenticeships. The fourth cost-benefit study conducted by the Observatory for Vocational Education and Training of the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education...

Cost-benefit study

Is it worthwhile for employers to take on apprentices?

OBS SFIVET monitors and analyses developments and trends affecting vocational education and training and identifies innovation potential. Emphasis is placed on general developments...

Trends affecting vocational education and training

Trend monitoring

Child care and rearing, working with families and young people, assisting the elderly, working in workshops and homes for the disabled – these are typical tasks of social care workers, whose primary aim is to integrate all population segments into society.

Career path study in social care

Labour force shortages in social care - who remains, who leaves?

Swiss vocational education and training has been successfully modernised since the 1990s. However, digitalisation poses fresh challenges and raises the question of whether vocational education and training can adapt successfully. Does the entire system need to be radically restructured or is it...

Trend Report

Digitalisation and VET - challenges and roads ahead

Adults without any qualifications struggle to find a job on the Swiss labour market. They are significantly more likely to be unemployed, to depend on social welfare or to work in poorly paid jobs. At the same time, there is a shortage of skilled workers in several sectors.

Professional qualification for adults

Vocational qualifications for adults - a new opportunity?

Terminating an apprenticeship contract can often prove destabilising for the young people concerned, although contract termination does sometimes go hand in hand with a liberating reorientation of one's career. For companies, apprenticeship contract terminations are associated with costs...

Training outcomes VET Certificates / Programmes

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