Sustainable Employer Engagement in TVET: The Role of the Government Dual VET as Reference & Lessons Learnt from Development Cooperation Input by Sibylle Schmutz, Donor Committee for dual Vocational Education and Training (DC dVET)

DC dVET: Dual VET as an Opportunity! Members & Organisation * Secretariat Head & Collaborator Country Representative Austria Country Representative Germany Country Representative Liechtenstein & Switzerland * The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports BMZ in the role of their operative implementing partner.

Collective Organised Systems Types of VET Systems high Liberal Systems State Centred Systems Collective Organised Systems Segmental Systems Participation of the state low low Participation of private sector high *Model adapted from Busenmayer/Trampusch 2012

Private Sector Involvement Introducing company based training phases Involvement in examinations and certification Qualification of school teachers and training personal in companies Provision of teaching equipment and training material Involvement at the steering level Involvement in the development of standards and curriculum Shared financing of VET systems State centred systems Introducting of school based theory Formalisation of certificates Segmental systems

Company based training phases Improving labour market relevance of skills Establishing dialogue at eye-level Finding interested and suitable companies Balancing interests Quality assurance Confidence building measures Overcoming fears and resistance

Curriculum Development & Adaptation Keep relevance and up-to-dateness Individual companies Private sector organisations (chambers, associations etc.) Who Communication of qualification needs Comment draft curricula Part of all steps How Consultative role Propose initiatives and changes Vote right Veto right Scope

Governance & Steering Level System to manage diversity Clarification of roles & responsibilities & mode of implementation Formulation of laws, strategies & policies Balancing common standards and autonomous implementation Ensuring support bodies such as VET agencies or sector councils

Thank you for your attention Dual Vocational Education and Training in Development Cooperation Using Common Strenghts! Thank you for your attention For further questions or inquiries don’t hesitate to contact the DC dVET secretariat: coordination@dcdualvet.org