Skills Identification in French Region Dream or Reality ? Christine Guégnard, Dublin 26 November 2004

Skills Identification From National Forecast... Forecast workplaces in different professions Control the training-employment relationship Renunciation at the end of 70th Contracts of Prospective Study (CEP) in 1988 Decentralisation: transfer to regional authorities of education responsibilities

Skills Identification To Regional Needs Contracts of Territorial Objectives (1987) Regional Training Employment Observatory OREF Burgundy = Network of 8 institutions initial and continuing vocational training, local approach, integration of trainees, qualifications development

Skills Identification Contract of Objectives in Hotel-Restaurant Regional Council Rectorat : Ministry of Education Regional Board for Labour: Ministry of Labour OREF Burgundy FAFIH: national funds, professional branch in hotels-restaurants sector

Strengths and weakenesses Regional Council ? Leadership Planning, optimising use of financing No research department, data on programmes Policy of administrative management Segmented services, absence of evaluation, referred to an opinion of the professional branch

Strengths and weakenesses Rectorat ? National policy implementation, Carte scolaire Justifying decisions regarding local data Research department: number of trainees, apprentices, demography, school’s policy, trainees’ integration (survey IVA)... To follow pupils’ path in education system, in the labour market, social demands Absence of socio-economical indicators to justify opening and closing training sections

Strengths and weakenesses Regional Board of Labour (DRTEFP) ? Mediation, accompaniment Determining elements of analysing Research Department: data on employment, unemployment, turn-over... Guarantor of institutional information (Labour Code) Absence of educational vocational analysis

Strengths and weakenesses OREF Burgundy ? To analyse data on supply and demand sides, relationship, elaborating diagnosis to support decision making process Skill needs identification on chronological and comparative analysis, using CEP national, survey among 50 firms Richness of inter institutional analysis, not depending defending only one’s institution opinion, expertise Complexity, reductive analysis, low impact

Strengths and weakenesses FAFIH National ? Control of Training (apprenticeship, lycee) Justifying national, sectoral choices Skill needs identification on CEP national, creation of a table on employment training relationship (adequation) Knowlegde of professions, part of sector Absence of data interpreting, forgetting mobility and individual behaviour, partly representatives

Transfer into policy, practice First episode: Regional Council question Regional Council makes an appeal to prepare annual training programme Vocational Center proposes cook training based on local survey among main hotels-restaurants revealing lack of cookers Regional Council sollicits OREF expertise

Transfer into policy, practice Second episode: OREF analysis Half of cookers in other sectors, problem is not to train too many cookers but to keep them in H-R National regional data confirm good conditions of access to workplaces Local data indicate a need for cookers with limited unemployment

Transfer into policy, practice Third episode: FAFIH analysis Data confirm to discourage qualifying programmes for cookers Regional monography indicates an excess Regional data indicate that lycee prepare more qualified young people than firms need for cookers

Transfer into policy, practice Fourth episode: Conseil regional decision To not use the multi analysis by OREF To ratify without control FAFIH opinion To reinforce the links with FAFIH

Transfer into policy, practice Contracts of Objective To confront economic actors, public decision makers in training-employment Instrument to improve dialog, consensus, diagnosis Various logics: administrative, territorial, national and sectoral

Transfer into policy, practice Skill needs identification Analysis of quantitative, qualitative data Confrontation of various viewpoints Development of shared diagnosis Influence on strategy of decision makers ? Expertise will be the less takes into accpunt the stronger is the combination of actors logics