Do we really need to involve social partners into the governance of vocational education and training?

Skills are employers and employees’ everyday business. Employers recruit people based on their capacity, qualification, technical and core competencies, and expect that the recruited people continue to develop this “human capital”. Continuous learning is in the employee interest, the motivation to develop one’s human capital is in fact an asset for the individual, in both positive and adverse circumstances in the labour market.

That’s how social partners have a clear stake in VET. No surprise then if employer and employee engagement in the early stages of designing VET and broad human capital development policies features in successful systems. In these systems, the transition from school to work is speedier than in other countries, and the qualifications vehicle into the labour market skills that are actually relevant.

In other words, It is the question “whom are the skills for?” that helps to see that social partners play a role in the VET system governance.
More on it in the VET Governance Toolkit social partnership area: https://openspace.etf.europa.eu/pages/block-5-social-partners?view=mail

What’s your view:
Do you agree that we need to involve social partners?