TVET GLOSSARY

List of abbreviations and terms and expressions commonly used in the area of TVET.

The entries are to be sorted alphabetically.

• Accreditation (of a TVET provider or training programme)
• Alternance training
• Awarding body
• Capacity Building
• Career Development
• Career Cluster
• Certification of Learning Outcomes
• Competence Assurance Management System - CAMS
• Competencies
• Competency-Based Training (CBT)
• Constructive Analysis
• Curriculum
• Curriculum Integration
• Dacum - Developing a Curriculum
• Distance Learning
• Dual System
• e-Learning
• Education
• Education for All (EFA)
• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
• Employability
• Entrepreneurship Education
• Function Analysis
• High Impact Teaching Strategy (HITS)
• Human Resource Development (HRD)
• Information and Communication Technology - (ICT)
• Instructional Methods
• International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)
• Investment in Training
• Job
• Job Analysis
• Labour Competency Standards (LCS)
• Labour Market Analysis (LMA)
• Life Skills
• Lifelong Learning (LLL)
• Modular Education
• Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
• National Qualifications Frameworks (NQF)
• Non-Technical Skills
• Occupation
• Occupational Health and Safety in TVET institutions/centres (OHS)
• Occupational Standard (OS)
• On-the-Job Training (OJT)
• Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
• Philosophy of TVET
• Problem Based Learning - (PBL)
• Qualifications
• Qualifications frameworks
• Qualification System
• Quality Assurance in TVET
• Recognition of Prior Learning - (RPL)
• School-based Training (SBT)
• Self-sufficient Schools
• Skills
• Standard Classification of Occupations
• Teaching And Learning Using Locally Available Resources (TALULAR)
• Taxonomy of Behavioral Objectives
• Training
• Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
• TVET
• TVET Strategy
• Virtual Education
• Work-Based Learning (WBL)
• Work Ethic
• Work Process Orientation (WPO)

Links

• VOCED Thesaurus (http://www.vocabularyserver.com/voced/index.php), provided by NCVER (http://www.ncver.edu.au/) Australia, which currently contains almost 4000 terms

• European Training Thesaurus (http://libserver.cedefop.europa.eu/ett/) CEDEFOP ETT constitutes the controlled vocabulary of reference in vocational education and training (VET) in Europe, 2009

• Terminology of European education and training policy (http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/etv/Information_resources/Bookshop/publication_details.asp?pub_id=369) CEDEFOP Multilingual glossary, 2009

• see also UIS Glossary on Education Terms (http://www.uis.unesco.org/glossary) in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.