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This report was commissioned by the Center on International Education Benchmarking? of the National Center on Education and the Economy?. For a complete listing of the material produced by this research program, please visit cieb. It was produced by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute in Zurich. For more information about KOF, visit kof.ethz.ch

This work may be cited as: Ursula Renold, Thomas Bolli, Katherine Caves, Jutta B?rgi, Maria Esther Egg, Johanna Kemper and Ladina Rageth, "Comparing International Vocational Education and Training Programs: The KOF Education-Employment Linkage Index" (Washington, DC: National Center on Education and the Economy, 2018).

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Comparing International Vocational Education and Training Programs

Ursula Renold, Thomas Bolli, Katherine Caves, Jutta B?rgi, Maria Esthter Egg, Johanna Kemper and Ladina Rageth

February 2018

Table of Contents

PROBLEM

1

ISSUES WITH CURRICULUM CONTENT COMPARISON

1

STUDY DESIGN

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DEFINING EDUCATION-EMPLOYMENT LINKAGE

3

MEASURING EDUCATION-EMPLOYMENT LINKAGE

4

METHODOLOGY

5

FINDINGS

8

KEY CHARACTERISTICS

9

APPLYING THE KOF EELI

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DUAL VET - SWITZERLAND

12

SCHOOL-BASED VET - ICELAND & SLOVENIA

13

CAREER EDUCATION ? SINGAPORE

15

REGULATED TRAINING - DISCUSSION

17

CONCLUSIONS

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HOW TO USE THE KOF EELI

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AN EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY STRATEGY

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EXAMPLE A: SWITZERLAND

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EXAMPLE B: COLORADO

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REFERENCES

25

APPENDIX 1: TABLES

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APPENDIX 2: COUNTRY FACTSHEETS

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