TVETipedia Glossary

The TVETipedia glossary is a collection of terms that are commonly used in the area of Technical and Vocational Education and Training. This glossary provides definitions and background information from various trustworthy sources.Terms in bold have the greatest amount of TVETipedia resources. Symbols signify  related articles and  TVET Forum discussions.

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Academic drift	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 learning and education
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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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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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	Credentialisation	Credentialism
Credit	Credit accumulation	Credit accumulation and transfer
Credit transfer	Credit transfer system	Cross cultural training
Curriculum	Curriculum exemplar

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Day release	Decent work	Demand-driven TVET
Demand-led learning	Demanded occupation	Deregulation
Developing a curriculum	Digital divide	Digital gap
Digital literacy	Dimensions of competency	Diploma
Direct training cost	Disadvantaged population	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	E-learning Plateform	Early leaver from education and training
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 learning	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	Exit profile
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 competency	Generic hard skills	Generic skills
Green jobs	Green skills	Greening
Greening TVET	Guidance and counselling	Guidance of learners
Guided learning

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Hard skills	Higher education	Higher education institution
Human capital	Human development	Human resource development
Hybrid skill

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ICT skills	ICT-assisted instruction	In-company trainers
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	Intangible cultural heritage	Intangible cultural heritage
Integrated assessment	Intentional ICT	Intern
Internal assessment	Internal quality audit	International Human Resource Development
International qualifications	International Standard Classification of Education	International Standard Classification of Occupations
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
Job-relevant skills

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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	Knowledge-intensive jobs

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Labour force	Labour force participation rate	Labour market
Labour market information	Labour market programme	Labour market scarring
Labour mobility	Labour supply	Ladderization
Learner achievement	Learners	Learning
Learning achievements/attainments/outcomes	Learning activity	Learning by doing
Learning by using	Learning city	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	Literacy
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
Migrant education	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 credential	Online education
Online learning	Open and distance learning	Open educational resources
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	Persons outside the labour force
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 and 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	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
Scientific and technical education and training	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 anticipation
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 construction of skill	Social partners	Soft skills
Special needs education	Specialised skills	Specialist training
Specific hard skills	Specific skills	Stakeholder
Standard	Standard of competence	Standardisation
STEM skills	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	Technical and vocational skills development
Technology-based education	Technology-Enabled Learning	Technology-enhanced education
Tertiary education	Tight (qualifications) framework	Tracked (qualifications) system
Trade	Trade course	Traditional apprenticeship
Traditional instruction	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 network
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	Transitional education plan	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	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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