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Ferrer Dufol, J.
Social dialogue and concertation on training in Spain

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2002
93 pp.

(Full text in pdf format only available in Spanish)

 

This work intends to reflect on social dialogue through a specific experience: the creation and management of the Spanish continuing training sub-system, where business organisations and trade unions have been implementing for nearly a decade the relationship between training and social dialogue. This experience proved how the articulation of social dialogue has been decisive for Spain's economic and social modernization.
The author also sets forth that education and training are the basis enabling the countries' social and economic development. Though it may take us time to understand the new rules of a new social, economic and political order, there is a rule that is still standing and becomes ever stronger: that education is the first stage of development. To expand education, to improve it, to work in order that all individuals may improve their education levels, with a view to their successful economic and social integration, is a demand claiming answers and solutions. Concertation and social dialogue have proved to be the proper instruments to attain it.

 

CONTENTS

Presentation

Introduction

The debate on vocational training

Social dialogue and concertation in Spain: overview

Approaching the National Vocational Training System

Spain's continuing training sub-system: a social pact for competitiveness

Main features of the sub-system
Basic principles of the sub-system
Funding of the continuing training sub-system
Continual training initiatives

1. Training Plans: How does the continuing training sub-system operate?
2. Tripartite Foundation for On the job Training
3. Peer Commissions
4. Dialogue on in plant training: Business Plans and Group Plans

A brief review of the Agreements' management results. The state of continuing training in Spain

Conclusions

Annex I
Training as a means to improve capacities

Annex II
Action framework for the Permanent Development of Competencies and Qualifications

I. Challenges
II. The stakeholders' approach
III. Definitions
IV. Four priorities
V. Actions and follow-up

Annex III
Social dialogue on education and training

 

 

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