OBS SFIVET’s Offers

Services

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The Swiss Observatory for Vocational Education and Training (OBS SFIVET) offers a range of services to its clients, which include professional organisations, government bodies, educational institutions and companies providing apprenticeship training to learners enrolled in VET programmes. These services are based on SFIVET's own research experience, its close ties with VET practitioners and its in-depth understanding of the regional diversity of the Swiss VET system.

OBS SFIVET offers a broad range of fundamental expertise as well as services that include trend analyses, contract research and consulting. 

While commissioned projects tend to be more large-scale and give rise to research or development projects, consultancy mandates are usually smaller assignments that are more limited in duration. 

The Issues and trends page provides a list of commissioned projects. An overview of ongoing and completed consultancy mandates is provided below:

VPET Cockpit (01.12.2016 - 31.08.2017)

The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) would like to introduce a cockpit with indicators on upper-secondary level vocational education and training (VET) and tertiary-level professional education so as to better monitor cantonal implementation of the Vocational and Professional Education and Training Act (VPETA). The Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET) has therefore been commissioned by SERI to draw up a list of possible indicators and examine databases that either already exist or are likely to exist in the foreseeable future, particularly databases maintained by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The result is an annotated list of indicators provided to SERI.

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Criteria to assess the suitability of training durations (01.05.2016 - 31.10.2016)

One aspect taken into consideration when reviewing VET programmes is whether training durations of three or four years are suitable. The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) is therefore called upon to decide on preliminary requests to lengthen or shorten the duration of VET programmes. In order to improve its decision-making basis, SERI has asked SFIVET to devise and explain suitable criteria that will enable assessment of optimal training durations.

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