Projects and monitoring

Issues and Trends

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

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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...
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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...
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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...

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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.
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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...
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Trend Report

Digitalisation and VET - challenges and roads ahead

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...

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Career paths studies in health care

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

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.
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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...
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Training outcomes VET Certificates / Programmes

Terminating apprenticeship contracts – destabilising or liberating?