Spain : a new regulation on vocational training

The Spanish government adopted a royal decree, last March 23th 2007, which deeply amended the vocational training system. Francisco Gomez Abelleira, labour law profesor in the Carlos III University ( Madrid), comments for e-europnews the main changes. (Réf. 070354)
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It is a well known fact that the Lisbon Strategy is not just about more jobs, but about more and better jobs. One of the key areas of concern of the Strategy is training and education, or, as put by the “Copenhagen Declaration” (2002), “the development of high quality vocational education and training is a crucial and integral part of this strategy”. Heads of States and Government said in 2002 that by 2010, Europe should be the world leader in terms of the quality of its education and training

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