Friday,26 February, 2016 - 02:00

Work based learning (WBL) is proving to be a successful model to improve the learners. Different sectors and stakeholders are demanding a more labour-market-oriented VET education combining practical and theoretical learning in order to qualify skilled workers in a practical way and better prepare them for the requirements of the labour market.

Stimulating international mobility of VET learners by means of transnational WBL experiences is one of the key…

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Tuesday,15 December, 2015 - 02:00

The main theme of the workshop was: “Development of Teachers and Lectors in Vocational Education and Training in Consideration of Contemporary Changes in Society”. The workshop received a financial support from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The representative of the Educational Association, z.s. presented the BEQUAL project at the workshop. A paper about the BEQUAL project has been published in proceedings from the workshop.

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Tuesday,8 December, 2015 - 02:00

In a report prepared by the Finnish Education Evaluation Center (Karvi in Finnish), 71% of vocational education and training providers in Finland have a quality management system in order. The results of a national self-evaluation of VET providers were released in June and the collective report in early November. The self-evaluation was conducted by Finnish Education Evaluation Center, partly in collaboration with the Finnish National Board of Education. This was the first time such an…

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Thursday,26 November, 2015 - 02:00

Kateřina Valachová, the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) following the discussions in the 27th ministry management session (2015) approved Assessment criteria for conditions, process and outcomes of education in accordance with the Czech School Inspectorate will act.

The approved criteria are formulated for purpose of an institution external assessment and create a logical framework, which enables to assess conditions, process and outcomes…

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Thursday,26 November, 2015 - 02:00

The workshop took place in November 23 – 24, 2015 in the Conference centre of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Forest Establishment in Kostelec nad Cernymi lesy as usual.

One of the workshop themes was school quality assurance and possibilities to use European on-line Benchmarking tool for Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training BEQUAL and a project BEQUAL.NET. Participants in workshop discussed how would be possible to use the…

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Monday,26 October, 2015 - 02:00

We have created a comprehensive overview of the benefits organisations may gain when joining the project bequal.net and included them in the brochure.

It is available in all partner languages. You just have to change the language of this page in order to see them. To see the brochure in english, click

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Monday,26 October, 2015 - 02:00

KOŠŤÁLOVÁ, Hana et al. Description of the good school. Prague: Helping schools to the success of the l. t. d., 2010. The text was produced in the preparatory phase of the project Helping schools to success in the year of 2010. Team: Vít  Beran, David Greger,  Martin  Chvál, Hana Košťálová, Jiřina Majerová, Šárka Miková, Jana Straková, Bohumil Zmrzlík. The text can be used in the framework of the project the Clinical school, which implements the Pedagogical faculty of the Charles University…

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Monday,26 October, 2015 - 02:00

European Peer Review Manual for initial VET. This material was developed within the Leonardo da Vinci „Peer Review as an Instrument for Quality Assurance and Improvement in initial VET“ (AT/04/C/F/TH-82000) project.

Link:

http://www.peer-review-…

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Monday,26 October, 2015 - 02:00

Qualitative report from the project QALLL – Czech translations of the part of the project – it is not possible to download

Link
http://docplayer.cz/1679479-Kvalitativni-zprava-z-projektu-qalll-cesky-preklad-uvodu-metodologie-a-zaveru.html

QUALL Recommendations in the Czech language…

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Monday,26 October, 2015 - 02:00

The methodological guide is addressed to directors and other members of the pedagogical leadership of schools as a guide in fulfilling one of the important tasks – the care of the pedagogical development entrusted to the schools and the associated professional development of teachers. This methodology should help the managers of the school to fulfil their role in the professional development of teachers through the career system of teachers and standard of teachers. The manual is focused on…

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Wednesday,16 September, 2015 - 17:12

Hello everybody!

We have recently returned from our third partnership meeting that took place in premises of Finnish Quality Association in Espoo, Finland.

Work-wise it was very productive and…

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Tuesday,16 June, 2015 - 17:12

Hello to our loyal followers of the page, as well as to new visitors. We are proud to announce that BEQUAL is nowhere in history and we have received support from Erasmus+ programme to transfer our tool to 3 new countries – Latvia, Czech Republic and Finland.

It means we will improve the tool and adapt it to the most recent EQAVET requirements for you to be able to evaluate your performance in the framework of 4 phases of…

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Tuesday,11 November, 2014 - 15:19

IDEC S.A. has the honour the invite you to participate in the transnational conference:

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING ORGANISATIONS

organised on Friday 12 December at 9:30 am, at ALBA GRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOL (Xenias 6, Athens).

The conference is organised…

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Tuesday,30 September, 2014 - 10:02

The European project Quality for Teachers (Qual4T), led by the Dutch training organisation Lanstede, released the first version of the quality toolkit. The quality toolkit addresses teachers and trainers in VET and includes 33 quality instruments categorised in 7 areas. The quality instruments can be used by vocational teachers and trainers to support them in the whole process of teaching from planning to implementation and evaluation of class, courses and lessons. In the next phase of the…

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Tuesday,23 September, 2014 - 12:26

Dates: 27-31 October 2014
Location: NETMEX, Budapest, Hungary
Training language: English

The training will focus on both the quality management in adult learning organisations and the use of the QUADRAT software. The contents of the training are:

  • Characteristics of adult learning organizations
  • Quality…
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