Full Title:
«Q-Placements: VET-Enterprise Cooperation for Quality
Assurance of VET Placements and Apprenticeships:
Introducing Q-Placements Model»
«Q-Placements» stands for «quality of placements», i.e.,
quality of apprenticeships or other kinds of work-based
learning
Project partners and countries:
P0, Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Latvia)
P1, Baltic Bright, Ltd., Management Coordinator
(Latvia)
P2, Official Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
Terrassa (Spain)
P3, National Centre for Education (Latvia)
P4, MBO Raad, Dutch Association for Vocational Training and
Adult Education (Netherlands)
P5, Center RS za poklicno izobraževanje, Institute of the
Republic of Slovenia for vocational education and training
(Slovenia)
Backround: How to ensure VET quality
 Labour market relevance > Work-based learning
 Quality of work placements, apprenticeships,
internships largely influences the quality of VET as a
whole;
 How to ensure quality of placements?
Background:
 Assumption:
One of the factors determinig quality of placements - skills of people
involved, quality of communication and cooperation between VET and
Host companies;
 Donor of innovation: Q-Placements project, Q-Placements network
by Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Terrassa, Spain
Q-Placements Handbook, www.q-placements.eu
Aims of Q-Placements project:
To improve the quality of national and transnational work
placements through:
Better cooperation between VET and enterprises/host
companies;
2) Better skills of tutors from VET and host companies to
provide support and guidance for trainees before, during
and after placements;
1)
Target groups of Q-Placements Project:
 VET tutors supervising work placements;
Tutors from host companies supervising work placements;
 Quality managers of VET, management of VET
institutions, management of host companies;
 Stakeholders supporting VET quality, policy makers
Q-Placements project steps 1-2
 Step 1: Preparation and analysis
Quality of VET placements: current procedures and relation to EQAVET
Cooperation between VET and Enterprises in partner countries; Skills of
people involved
Q-Placements Handbook: what do we take from it?
 Step 2: Developing Training methodology, Guidelines for
joint training of tutors from VET and Host companies;
European Train-the-Trainer Workshop for trainers from
partner countries
The training methodology will be adopted by each partner country
Q-Placements project steps: 3-4
 Step 3: Joint training workshops for tutors from VET
and in partner countries
Tutors from VET and tutors from host companies are trained together;
They improve skills of cooperation, mutual communication, agree on
better procedures, more effective guidance for VET trainees;
Collecting feedbacks and recommendations;
 Step 4: Testing and mainstreaming
Trained tutors are testing the approach, their new skills with actual VET
students in placements
Seminars with policy and decision-makers
What shall we leave after us:
 Overview of current quality assurance of VET placements in Latvia,
Netherlands, Spain, Slovenia;
 Tested methodology and training programme for improving the skills
of VET and Host company tutors for ensuring higher quality of
placements;
 Trained tutors from VET and from Host companies in Latvia,
Nehterlands, Spain, Slovenia; Lead-trainers for new trainings
 Methodological material for improving quality of placements, and
quality of VET in general;
 Recommendations, proposals for improved procedures, policies, etc;
Q-Placements contact information:
Q-Placements project website:
www.qualityplacements.eu
Management coordinator:
Baltic Bright, Ltd: info@ balticbright.lv, +37167373876
Project manager: Vita Žunda
[email protected]
+371 29127527