Open Space

Dear George, welcome to the ETF Open Space universe ! ETF is active is the area of quality assurance in vocational education and training, through networking with our Partner countries and supporting their QA in VET systems improvement. We have also recently launched our GLAD network that will look into the governance of VET and lifelong learning, including quality assurance (https://openspace.etf.europa.eu/blog-posts/glad-move-forward ) You may find out more on QA area shared by ETF and members of this platform if you select "Assuring quality in vocational training in the menu of Practice areas on the right side of the page. And, of course, you are very welcome to share your practices and resources on this platform - for he benefit of learning together! It would be great if you tell us more about your organisation and your Unit of internal quality assurance. Thank you and all the best !

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Dear Ms. Rashidova, so nice to see such developments for your country, my suggession regarding establishing vocational training centers is to make some of them "the centres of vocational excellence (CoVEs) which inspire LLL landscape. A good resource to read from ETF, https://www.euneighbours.eu/en/south/stay-informed/publications/etf-cen…

Dear Abdi, thank you very much for your attention to the changes in the country. Actually, we had such centers before the reform, which was the center for training the other colleagues. After the refom, the government decided to be open to the market from compulsory TVET education into a variative, flexible way of forating TVET in the country. In the country, we have all the regulations on the top to do dual systems in education, credit systems, and clasters, which is very close to the concept of PPP in CoVES. This country is very open to the best practices to be implemented in other countries. We have human resources as we have government support. Now we need a lot of initiatives to start the process. As far as I know, ADB and KfW have planned to create CoVES in the country. But, with such vast territory and centralized governance for so long (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan#::text=Uzbekistan%20has%20an%2…, and%20the%2040th%20by%20population), we require a large number of initiatives and their implementation. The government plans to have two Clasters-PPP in each district. But people need to be trained how to engage private companies, which are very good developing by the way, and VET providers. That would be really nice to share the experience with the capable people on that, to do some workshops and find the leading people in capacity building in the country.