Astri Pestalozzi

Skills Plus – on the way to certifiedvocational skills

Astri Pestalozzi, ECVET - June 2019

Skills Norway

Contributes to increased employment and active citizenship

Promotes and demonstrates the importance of skills policy in our nation’s development

Our partners: other state agencies, labour and employers organisations, regional and municipal agencies, the voluntary sector, adult learning associations and universities and university colleges

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Ways to formal vocational certificate

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Skills Plus

• Improving basic skills to keep up with the demands and changes in modern working life and civil society

Skills plus

• Digital skills

• Literacy

• Numeracy

• Oral

• Norwegian/Sami

• Learning in the workplace environment or in NGO-activity

Embedded learning

Skills Plus - how

• Enterprise or learning provider can apply for funding• Requires cooperation between enterprise and learning provider

• Embedded and situated learning – based on enterprise’s needs

• Curriculum in Norwegian for adult immigrants

• Competence goals for Basic skills (reading, writing, numeracy, digital skills and oral communication) for adults

• Standard length courses – depending on participants needs and level

• Mapping of the participants

An on-going programme

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Skills plus - in 1000 Euros

Gir voksne kompetanse til å mestre krav og omstilling i arbeidslivet

Success criteria • Based on prior learning/ competence

• Meeting actual needs

• Work place or NGO as learning arena

• Committed management

• Authentic material

• Competent teachers

Trial: VET in Skills plus

• 1 million Euros 2018 - 1,5 mill in 2019

• Adults with practical experience and lowformal education

• Combines VET and basic skills

• Preparation to achieve trade certificate

• Evaluation

Tools and resources on basic skills

• Information and tools