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The Future Potential of Vocational Education and Training: Strengthening VET for the next generation

22.04.2021: Call for Papers

7th Congress on Research in VET, 2–4 February 2022

Do companies benefit from training apprentices?

16.04.2021: Fifth SERI-commissioned cost-benefit survey

Do companies benefit from training apprentices?

Cable car mechatronics technicians, weavers and piano makers – how have small occupations managed to survive despite the reform of vocational and professional education and training and the efforts to merge small occupations into occupational fields? By demonstrating extraordinary commitment, the...

08.04.2021: Leading House GOVPET project completed at SFIVET

How small occupations survive

Skills of the future in insurance

25.03.2021: New project on behalf of the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA)

Skills of the future in insurance

Miriam Grønning awarded doctorate in sociology

11.03.2021: Dissertation successfully completed

Miriam Grønning awarded doctorate in sociology

Patric Raemy is a doctor of social sciences

08.03.2021: Dissertation successfully completed

Patric Raemy is a doctor of social sciences

“Hypersensitivity” – curse or blessing?

09.03.2021: New SNSF-funded project

“Hypersensitivity” – curse or blessing?

Vocational didactics in Switzerland: developing tranversal competences

10.02.2021: Leading House goes into the second round

Vocational didactics in Switzerland: developing tranversal competences

Keynote speech by Antje Barabasch at the first EIT.swiss industry day

01.02.2021: New learning environments

Keynote speech by Antje Barabasch at the first EIT.swiss industry day

Workplace training today – Study of new learning cultures at the workplace

28.01.2021: New SNSF-funded project

Workplace training today – Study of new learning cultures at the workplace

Evaluation of full revision of the federal professional examination for Certified Insurers (VBV/AFA)

26.01.2021: Evaluation Unit begins a new project

Evaluation of full revision of the federal professional examination for Certified Insurers (VBV/AFA)

Digital Transformation in Swiss Vocational Schools

25.01.2021: Dissertation project by Chiara Antonietti

Digital Transformation in Swiss Vocational Schools

Digital transformation in upper secondary schools

25.01.2021: New SNSF Project

Digital transformation in upper secondary schools

The value of apprenticeships on the Swiss labour market

13.01.2021: New study commissioned by SECO

The value of apprenticeships on the Swiss labour market

The Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET) has won a mandate from the International Labour Organization (ILO). This involves creating a digital toolkit the main aim of which is to establish instructions and proven procedures for the successful integration of the...

04.01.2021: International Relations

Digital toolkit for the International Labour Organization

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...

18.12.2020: Study mandated by OdASanté

Nursing and caregiving qualifications

In ‘The Key to Evaluation’, Prof. Dr. Lars Balzer and his team from the Evaluation Unit outline how to carry out an evaluation in ten steps. Using a specific example, ‘The Key to Evaluation’ goes through all the stages of the evaluation process – from identifying the subject of evaluation to...

16.12.2020: New web brochure from the Evaluation Unit

The key to evaluation – evaluation in brief

Digitalisation and transmission of clinical information in nursing

14.12.2020: New SNSF project

Digitalisation and transmission of clinical information in nursing

Three contributions in applied microeconomics with a focus on vocational education and training

01.12.2020: Manuel Aepli’s dissertation successfully completed

Three contributions in applied microeconomics with a focus on vocational education and training

Evaluation of the 'LIFT Züri' project...

01.12.2020: New Evaluation Unit project

Evaluation of the 'LIFT Züri' project

Encouraging the acquisition of cross-cutting competences among banking specialists

30.11.2020: New project with the financial sector

Encouraging the acquisition of cross-cutting competences among banking specialists

The Swiss Society for Applied Research in Vocational Education and Training (SGAB) has awarded its first Vocational Education and Training Prize for the Realto platform. SFIVET professor Alberto Cattaneo was among the recipients. The ‘At the Heart of Apprenticeships’ exhibition, which was another...

27.11.2020: SGAB Vocational Education and Training Prize

Award given for Realto platform

The corona lockdown led to a nationwide ban on face-to-face teaching at tertiary level. This posed major challenges for teachers at professional education institutions (höhere Fachschulen).

19.11.2020: Teaching in times of corona

Teachers at professional education institutions in a challenging situation

Respondent behavior and data quality in multi-device web surveys

16.11.2020: Dissertation project by Ellen Laupper

Respondent behavior and data quality in multi-device web surveys

Need for advisory services in vocational education and training

10.11.2020: New SFIVET report with recommendations

Need for advisory services in vocational education and training

Reinforcing the Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (FVB) is a strategic objective of the Federal Administration and is part of the VPET 2030 Strategy. The Swiss Observatory for Vocational Education and Training (OBS SFIVET) will address this important topic at the third national conference on current...

29.10.2020: OBS SFIVET’s National Conference

«Federal Vocational Baccalaureate: Admission, Career Paths and Prospects»

STILLLearning - Innovative Training Solutions for Learning at Work in Disruptive Industries

26.10.2020: Kick-off new EU-Project

STILLLearning

Workplace training conditions at host companies

19.10.2020: News project SNSF

Workplace training conditions at host companies

Researchers Irene Kriesi and Ariane Basler examined the stated occupational preferences of young men and women at age 15 and 21 and observed how these preferences changed over that six-year period. They also considered the impact of the type of upper-secondary education, social background and...

15.10.2020: Career choice

How the career aspirations of young women and men change over time

Study on the requirements and scope for involvement in the Re Care project of active and inactive nursing staff

12.10.2020: New SEFRI project

Study on the needs of care workers

Evaluation and outlook of the apprenticeship monitoring system and the role of apprenticeship inspectors in the Canton of Vaud

16.09.2020: New project for the Canton of Vaud (DGEP and OFPC)

Evaluation and outlook of the apprenticeship monitoring system and the role of apprenticeship inspectors in the Canton of Vaud

School-to-work transition and termination of apprenticeship contracts in two-year VET programmes and INSOS practical training courses

04.09.2020: Final report from LUNA project now available

School-to-work transition and termination of apprenticeship contracts in two-year VET programmes and INSOS practical training courses

Specificity of vocational qualifications and income gap between men and women

25.06.2020: New article in the Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology (KZfSS)

Specificity of vocational qualifications and income gap between men and women

Quality of vocational education and training, role tensions and consequences for apprentices

23.06.2020: Dissertation project by Matilde Wenger

Quality, role tensions for apprentices and consequences

Carmen Baumeler appointed to project advisory board

02.06.2020: Steering effect of classification systems

Carmen Baumeler appointed to project advisory board

Creativity and art-based learning

02.06.2020: Journal of Adult and Continuing Education - Special Issue

Creativity and art-based learning

The ‘At the heart of apprenticeships’ exhibition offers visitors the chance to experience what workplace training is like, from the time when a learner is hired by a host company to when he/she completes vocational education and training for the chosen occupation. By examining workplace training...