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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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