Adapting VET to meet the needs of the labour market in Belgium-fr

The peer review gathered Belgian-fr public authorities in charge of VET and EQAVET international peer reviewers to discuss the links between labour market and societal needs in the governance of VET as well as between training outcomes and labour market needs.

The Erasmus National Agency AEF-Europe hosted their peer review on 25-26 September in Namur (Belgium) in partnership with the organisations with responsibility for VET in Wallonia and Brussels. The peer review focused on adapting VET to meet the needs of the labour market. Eight EQAVET Network members from Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovenia acted as peer reviewers.

French-speaking public authorities in Belgium collect, analyse and use labour market data to support the development of a wide range of VET programmes for young people and adults. These public authorities guide the provision of VET in a system where individual training providers/networks are autonomous and use learning outcomes and certification processes which are determined centrally. The peer review aimed at supporting the host in improving the use of data to enhance decision making, identifying data collection and analysis good practices, evaluating and refining indicators to better reflect labour market demands and optimising existing tools.

The peer review was the opportunity to reflect on the challenges associated with understanding labour market needs for VET, the strengthening of the collaboration between public authorities, the benefits of using targets to support data collection and usage, enhancing transparency through greater sharing of information and data, ways to encourage VET providers to make greater use of labour market data, how to quality assure labour market data, as well as the benefits of analysing drop-out rates.

Read the flash report summarising the main outcomes of the discussion.

Additionally, a separate report containing detailed feedback from the peer reviewers will be shared with the host country.