on Competency-based Training and Certification for Latin American UNEVOC Centres and Candidate Centres

From 16 to 20 October 2006, the UNESCO-UNEVOC, in cooperation with the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean ( http://www.unesco.cl ) and Fundación Chile ( http://www.fundacionchile.cl ), organised a study tour for a small group of TVET experts from Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Paraguay to Santiago de Chile. The aim of the tour was to study the successes and lessons learnt of the "job competencies programme" of Fundación Chile, which is considered to be an example of good practice with regard to competency-based training and certification in the region. Through this programme, Fundación Chile aims to identify the skills, attitudes and knowledge that people need to be hired and to develop in the working world; to improve the quality and relevance of the job training and professional formation offer; to recognize people’s acquired learning and skills; to contribute to inter and intra company job mobility of those workers who certify their competencies; to support the evaluation of formation and training policies;and to support management in companies and institutions. The study tour provided the participants with an opportunity to study the experiences of the Fundación Chile with the implementation of its programme of competency-based training, its context and its medium-term and long- term challenges,

• To understand the economic and institutional context of the Chilean competency-based approach
• To get to know the principal methodological and conceptual developments of the “Programa de competencies laborales”
• To learn more about curricular and methodological innovations in TVET in the context of lifelong learning and competency-based approaches.

Following the study tour, the participants are currently in the process of implementing national disemination seminars in their own countries in order to share their newly acquired knowledge with colleagues and relevant stakeholders, and to discus with them possible applications of the Chilean experiences within their own local contexts.

Contact

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