Transcript Presentation - WorldSkills

WorldSkills Leaders Forum
May 16th 2012, Jeju, Korea
Vocational Education and Training
(VET) – recipe for success in
Switzerland
Christine Davatz
Vice-director of the Swiss association for small and medium sized
enterprises sgv
and official delegate of Switzerland at Worldskills International
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Contents
1. Swiss economy and the trade associations
2. The Swiss Education System – some facts
and figures
3. Switzerland and Worldskills
4. Two success-stories
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SME – number 1 of the Swiss Economy
• Schweizerischer Gewerbeverband sgv
largest umbrella association in Switzerland for small and medium
sized enterprizes => ca. 280 Swiss professional associations and
regional trade associations
with about 300’000 Enterprises (representing 99% of all swiss
companies)
- creating two-thirds of all employment opportunities
- training more than 70% of the future professionals
• Corebusiness is SME-policy => main topics:
vocational education and training VET, energy and environment,
finances and taxes, mobility and spatial development, social policy and
labour market, economic policy
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Contents
1. Swiss economy and the trade associations
2. The Swiss Education System – some facts
and figures
3. Switzerland and Worldskills
4. Two success-stories
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The Swiss Education System
Age
5 – 16
16 – 20
20 +
The official systematic education model and different possibilities of achieving it
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Pupils and Students 2009 / 2010
Pre-primary (2 years)
Compulsory education (9 years)
147’200
769’314
Upper secondary education
Totaly
343’300
VET (2 to 4 years in «dual system»)
General education (high-) school (3 years)
232’056
73’547
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Degrees and certifcates in
Upper secondary (2010)
Federal VET Diploma ( after 3 or 4 years
apprenticeship)
With vocational Baccalaureate
Federal VET Certificate (2 years)
59’389
12’249
3’690
Academic Matura (3 years)
Trade school certificate
Intermediate school certificate
18‘865
2’897
4‘677
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Three Teaching points of vocational
education (apprenticeship)
During the whole duration of apprenticeship (2 to 4 years
depending on the trade/profession to learn)
• at Company: 3 to 3½ days per week
• at Vocational College: 1 to 1½ days per week
• at trade-courses: 2 - 10 weeks per year (length depending
on the profession, organized by professional associations).
Depending on profession
• Vocational Baccalaureate: in addition ½ to 1 days per
week; or during one year after completing the
apprenticeship.
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Why do we have THIS system?
• Long tradition, will and readiness of the trade
associations and the member companies to
educate and train their own professionals
• Structure of Swiss economy:
99 % SME, usually organized in trade- or
professional organisations
=> Vocational and Education training is first of
all the task of the economy, not of the
government
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International comparison amongst youth: Countries
with VET system have the lowest youth
unemployment
Rate of unemployment: Rate of unemployed youth in percentage 15 – 24 years in Europe ( EU,
autumn 2009 )
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Contents
1. Swiss economy and the trade associations
2. The VET in Switzerland – some facts and
figures
3. Switzerland and Worldskills
4. Two success-stories
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3.
Switzerland and WorldSkills
Switzerland is member in WSI since 1953
Members of SwissSkills foundation are:
employers associations,
governments of the cantons,
Swiss government,
VET – colleges,
trade unions
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Werner Wyss – Madrid 1967 – Mould making
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Swiss Team 1967 in Madrid
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Who decides to participate at WSC?
decision of the trade- / professional associations
they choose the experts
they decide, in which way the candidate has to be
elected (competition, best notes etc.)
E.g. joinery: each year 1’000 joiners finish
apprenticeship – the professional organisation
organizes regional selections –> about 160 can go
–> 12 can go to Swiss Championship of Joinery
–> 2 can go to WorldSkills….
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Benefits for the young professionals
To learn time management and handling with
pressure
To prepare for the final exams in the apprenticeship
To meet other professionals in Switzerland and
abroad
To increase own professional quality
As incentives (from government, sponsors,
association etc.): courses for further education in the
trade, tools, money, invitations etc.
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Benefits for the professional organisations
To present the high quality of their professionals in
the public
To give the young people the opportunity to
compete during and right after the apprenticeship
To increase the pride of the profession
To use the competition as National information
platform
To exchange information with other professionals
(and countries)
to increase benefits for member-companies
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Benefits for Switzerland
To demonstrate the quality of the young
professionals and the efficiency of the Swiss VET
system at the international level
To create and maintain international contacts with
representatives of the various training countries
To compare and experience exchange of different
training systems (benchmarking)
To compare standards of competence between the
professions
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Flame of Passion
and Inspiration
SwissSkills Berne 2014 – September, 17th -21st
we want to spread VET-passion all over Switzerland
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Fabian Vogler, Web-Design
(Trade 17), Gold, Calgary 2009
Sabrina Keller, Restaurant-Service
(Trade 35), Gold, London 2011
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