The research project «Short- and long-term impacts of Covid-19 on VET: Strengthening VET in times of crises» aims to explore the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on dual-track vocational educ...
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Adopting an ethnographic approach, researchers will explore the impact of digital technology on nursing activities, in particular on the transmission of clinical data of patients. Based on t...
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A nationwide ban was imposed in Switzerland on face-to-face teaching at tertiary level in spring 2020 and autumn/winter 2020/2021. We evaluated the opportunities and risks of this transition...
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Launched on behalf of OdASanté, this project involves the use of several different methodologies to provide a consolidated understanding of future requirements in the area of comprehensive n...
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The Swiss Observatory for Vocational Education and Training OBS SFUVET monitors and analyses developments and trends affecting vocational education and training and identifies innovation pot...
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Graduates of VET programmes in healthcare are the largest target group for potential enrolment in tertiary-level nursing programmes and this has a major impact on the availability of qualifi...
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The predicted shortage of skilled health professionals threatens the future provision of health and nursing care in Switzerland. In order to develop and implement effective measures against ...
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In 2018, SECO’s Red Tape Monitor survey estimated that over half of all host companies consider the administrative burden associated with providing workplace training to be (rather) high. Fo...
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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 facil...
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The social care field also faces the problem of shortages of skilled workers. The umbrella organisation for Swiss social care SAVOIRSOCIAL takes targeted action to address these shortages.
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The cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training is a decisive factor in company willingness to provide an adequate number of apprenticeship positions for Swiss dual-track VET programmes. E...
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The main target group for enrolment in professional education and training (PET) colleges specialised in nursing are holders of the Federal VET Diploma, Health Care Assistant. The proportion...
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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 ter...
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The longitudinal study on career pathways of health care assistants has now entered its third phase. The first phase of the study was conducted in 2010/2011. Data was collected during the th...
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According to the first national study of premature termination of apprenticeship contracts and resumption of training in two-year VET programmes (see Schmid et al. 2016), the apprenticeship ...
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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 pai...
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Rescue services play a key role in the medical care of emergency patients. They are called up by the medical emergency call centres, provide the professional pre-hospital care on site and de...
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This project focuses on the second transition of holders of non-academic health care qualifications, i.e. the transition from upper-secondary level VET programmes to working life or to terti...
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Early termination of apprenticeship contracts place young people at considerable risk of ultimately remaining without any upper-secondary level qualifications. So far, there has been no reli...
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The Swiss Science and Technology Council (SSTC) asked the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training SFIVET to conduct an expert study to analyse and assess the Swiss pro...
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The present study was commissioned by the “Berner Bildungszentrum Pflege”. It seeks to identify the factors determining the career choices of holders of the Federal VET Diploma in health car...
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