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Bridges for Recognition | Hot Issues discussion groups
Strand three: transferability
1. Transferability between sectors: flexibility, recognition and employability
One of the reasons for getting skills acquired in Youth work recognised, could be to improve your
employability. Youth work does indeed provide young people with many valuable skills but how
could skills acquired through Youth work be presented to employers in order to have these skills
recognised and valued? Where could bridges between the labour market and the Youth work
sector be established? –with or without the intermediation of formal education institutions.
How can, more broadly, job prospects of young people with skills acquired outside the formal or
vocational education be enhanced through validation? This may be of even greater importance
and difficulty in countries where individual companies and social partners have a prominent
role in standard setting for the formal education sector and may not be willing to recognise skills
acquired in learning non-formal and informal settings, over which they lack the same extent of
influence.
This point was discussed in the Hot Issue discussion group ‘Transferability between Sectors’
(with Anthony Azzopardi)