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TVETipedia Glossary

The TVETipedia glossary is a glossary of terms that are commonly used globally in the area of Technical and Vocational Education and Training. This glossary provides definitions and background information from various trustworthy sources.Terms in bold are main terms of the glossary. Symbols signify related articles and e-Forum discussions.


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Accelerated learning programme Accelerated training Acceleration
Access and equity Access course Access programme
Access to education and training Accountability Accreditation
Accreditation of an education or training programme Accreditation of an education or training provider Accredited learning
Achievement Action learning Active labour-market policy
Active labour-market programme Active learning Admission criteria
Adult Adult and community education Adult basic education
Adult education Adult education and training Adult learner
Adult learning Adult literacy and numeracy Alternance training
Andragogy Apprentice Apprentice absorption rate
Apprenticeable occupation Apprenticeship Apprenticeship agreement
Apprenticeship contract Approving authority Articulation
Assessment Assessment body Assessment criteria
Assessment guidelines Assessment materials Assessment of competence
Assessment of learning outcomes Assessment plan Assessment tool
Assessment validation Assessor Asynchronous learning
Attendance Attitude Attitudes to learning
Attractiveness of vocational education and training Audit Audit plan
Audit report Auditee Auditors
Awarding body

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B

Barriers/obstacles to learning Basic education Basic skills
Benchmarking Benefits of education and training Best practice
Blended learning Block release Bridging course

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C

Cadetship Capacity building Capacity development
Career Career counselling Career development
Career education Career guidance Career management skills
Career path Career profiling Certificate
Certification Certification of learning outcomes Class-based training
Co-operative vocational education College Communities of practice
Community education Community of trust Community-based training
Comparability of qualifications Compensatory learning Competence assurance
Competence assurance management system Competence/y Competency development framework
Competency element Competency module Competency standard
Competency transfer Competency unit Competency-based assessment
Competency-based education Competency-based qualification Competency-based training
Competent Completion Compliance audit
Comprehensive (qualifications) framework Compulsory education Computer-assisted instruction
Computer-based training Continuing education Continuing learning
Continuing professional development Continuing vocational education and training Contract of training
Cooperative learning Copenhagen process Core competencies
Core curriculum Corporate education Correctional education
Course Creative industries Credential
Credential evaluation Credentialism Credit
Credit accumulation Credit accumulation and transfer Credit transfer
Credit transfer system Cross cultural training Curriculum
Curriculum exemplar

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D

Day release Decent work Demand-driven TVET
Demand-led learning Demanded occupation Deregulation
Developing a curriculum Digital gap Digital literacy
Dimensions of competency Diploma Direct training cost
Disadvantaged Distance education Distance learning
Domestic worker Dropout Dual accreditation
Dual enrolment Dual system Dual system education programmes
Dual training system Dual vocational training Dual-sector institutions
Dualized training programme

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E-learning Early (school) leaver Education
Education dropout Education for all Education for sustainable development
Education provider Education-industry relationship Education-work relationship
Educational institution Educational technology Educator
Elements of competency Embedded learning and teaching Emerging occupation
Emerging skills Employability Employability skills
Employed Employee Employer
Employer-funded training Employer-sponsored learning Employment
Employment and skills council Employment rate Enabling course
Enacted curriculum Enrol Enrolment
Enterprise Entrepreneurial skills Entrepreneurship education/training
Entry qualification Entry-level skill Entry-level training
Equal employment opportunity Equal opportunity Equity
Equivalence of certificates Equivalency Equivalency test
Essential or foundation skills Europass European credit system for vocational education and training
European credit transfer and accumulation system European network for quality assurance in vocational education and training European qualifications framework for lifelong learning
European quality assurance in vocational education and training Evaluation Evaluation of education and training
Evidence Evidence criteria Evidence guide
Experiential learning

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Family helper Family literacy Flexibility
Flexible delivery Flexible learning Flipped classroom
Formal apprenticeship Formal education and training Formal learning
Formal training Formative assessment Foundational competence
Foundational learning Funding body Further education
Further training

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Gender Gender analysis Gender and development mainstreaming
Gender equality General competencies General education
Generic hard skills Generic skills Green jobs
Green skills Greening TVET Guidance and counselling
Guidance of learners Guided learning

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Hard skills Higher education Higher education institution
Human capital Hybrid skill

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ICT skills ICT-assisted instruction In-company training
In-plant training In-school training In-service training
Incidental (random) learning Inclusion Indenture
Individual learning account Industry organization Industry reforming/restructuring
Informal apprenticeship Informal education and training Informal employment
Informal learning Informal sector Informal training
Information and communication technology Information society Information, advice and guidance
Initial education Initial education and training Initial training
Initial vocational education and training Institutional assessment Institutional audit
Integrated assessment Intern Internal assessment
Internal quality audit International standard classification of occupations International standard of classification of education
Internet-assisted instruction Internship

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Job Job analysis Job evaluation
Job guide Job network Job placement
Job specifications Job standard Job-related learning

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Key competencies Key performance indicators Key performance measure
Kinaesthetic learning Know-how Knowledge
Knowledge criteria Knowledge economy Knowledge standard
Knowledge-based society

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Labour force Labour force participation rate Labour market
Labour market information Labour market programme Labour mobility
Labour supply Ladderization Learner achievement
Learners Learning Learning achievements/attainments/outcomes
Learning activity Learning by doing Learning by using
Learning community Learning content Learning culture
Learning difficulties / disabilities Learning element Learning facilitator
Learning objectives Learning organisation Learning outcomes
Learning programme Learning region Learning resource centre
Learning society Learning strategy Learning technologies
Level Level descriptor Level of qualification
Levels of education Life skills Lifelong guidance (and counselling)
Lifelong learning Lifewide learning Linked (qualifications) framework
Livelihood skills Log book Loose (qualifications) framework
Low qualified person Low-skilled person Lower secondary education

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Massive open online courses Mentor Mentoring
Minimum competency Mismatch Mobile learning
Mobility Modular course Modular training
Module Monitoring Motivation to learn
Multi-skilling Mutual recognition (of qualifications)

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National qualification National qualifications framework National training system
National vocational qualifications Neither in employment nor in education and training New basic skills
Non-formal education Non-formal learning Non-traditional occupation

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Occupation Occupation in demand Occupational analysis
Occupational qualification Occupational skills profile Occupational specialisation
Occupational standards Off-the-job training On-site training
On-the-job training Online education Online learning
Open educational resources Open learning Open training market
Outcome Outcome-based qualification Overeducation
Overqualification Overskilling

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Partial (qualifications) framework Pathway of training Peer mentoring
Performance criteria Permeability Planning of training
Portable skill Post-compulsory education Post-school education and training
Post-secondary (non-tertiary) education Post-secondary education Pre-apprenticeship course
Pre-requisites Pre-service education/training Pre-vocational course
Pre-vocational education Pre-vocational training Prior learning
Private training provider Professional continuing education Programme
Programme of education or training Promising practices

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Qualification Qualification certification Qualification descriptor
Qualification system Qualification type Qualification variant
Qualifications framework Quality Quality assurance
Quality assurance management system Quality audit Quality auditor
Quality control Quality document Quality endorsement
Quality improvement Quality management Quality management principles
Quality management systems Quality system Quality-endorsed training provider

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Recognition Recognition of a foreign qualification Recognition of current competencies
Recognition of learning outcomes Recognition of prior learning Record of learning
Recreational learning Reentry student Refresher course
Regional qualifications framework Registration Resource-based learning
Retraining

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School to work program School to work transition School-based education
School-based training School-industry programme Science technology engineering and mathematics
Second chance education Secondary education Sector
Sectoral skills plan Self assessment Self-directed learning
Self-employment Short course Short duration course
Short-term program Signature pedagogy Skill ecosystem
Skill imbalance Skill mismatch Skill needs
Skill obsolescence Skill recognition Skill shortage
Skill upgrading Skilled worker Skills
Skills analysis Skills audit Skills centre
Skills certification Skills development Skills forecast
Skills gap Skills passport Skills portfolio
Skills priorities Skills recognition agency Skills surplus
Skills utilization rate Social partners Soft skills
Special needs education Specialised skills Specialist training
Specific hard skills Specific skills Stakeholder
Standard Standard of competence Standardisation
Structured training Structured workplace learning Summative assessment
Sustainability Sustainable development Syllabus
Synchronous learning

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Teacher Technical and further education Technical and vocational education
Technical and vocational education and training Technical and vocational skills development Technology-based education
Technology-enhanced education Tertiary education Tight (qualifications) framework
Tracked (qualifications) system Trade Trade course
Traditional apprenticeship Trainee/Developee Traineeship
Trainer Training Training agreement
Training allowance Training and development roadmap Training capacity
Training contract Training course planning and design Training culture
Training evaluation Training institution Training investment
Training levy Training lifecycle/matrix Training market
Training modality Training needs analysis Training of trainers
Training organisation Training package Training plan
Training policy Training programme Training provider
Training reform agenda Training regulation Training standards
Training voucher Training/education path/pathway Transfer
Transferability Transferable skill Transformative TVET
Transition from school or training to work Transition programme Transition rate
Transparency of qualifications Transversal skills Tutoring
TVET college TVET institution TVET provider

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Undereducation Underemployed Underqualification
Underskilling Unemployed Unemployment
Unemployment rate Unified (qualifications) framework Unit
Unit of competency Unitarisation Upper secondary education
Upskilling

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Validation Validation of informal/non-formal learning Validation of learning outcomes
Virtual education Vocational and technical education Vocational competency
Vocational counselling Vocational education (VE) Vocational education and training
Vocational education and training provider Vocational guidance Vocational orientation
Vocational pedagogy Vocational placement Vocational preparation
Vocational qualification Vocational rehabilitation Vocational teacher
Vocational training Vocationalisation

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Work experience Work integrated learning Work placement
Work-based learning Work-based training Workplace learning
Workplace-based learning

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Youth Youth allowance Youth literacy rate

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