The what and why of the Sectoral Approach

Mitigating imbalances between skills supply and demand is one of the biggest challenges vocational education and training (VET) policies and systems now face. Employers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to engage with public authorities in developing and implementing skills policies in the ETF partner countries.

Sectoral approaches are used to shape VET and skills provision to fit the needs of businesses in a given economic sector throug...