Preface

On April 21 1999 the Danish Parliament passed the new Vocational Education Training Act (No. 234) which will come into force on January 1 2001. The new law is an important policy instrument for achieving innovation. Other important aims of the new law are to enhance the quality of vocational education, to cultivate talent and to encourage companies and colleges to organise interactive learning activities.

The reform marks an innovation of the technical VET courses, in particular, but also implies considerable changes in the commercial VET programmers which were reformed in 1996.

Many development projects have already been initiated during the summer of 1999 to support the implementation of the new reform. Thus, what is described here is a reform under continuous development. But, however, the outlines of the reform are now quite clear.

I am absolutely convinced that this reform will improve the transparency and at the same time enhance the flexibility and consequently the breadth and elasticity of the Danish vocational education and training system. Social inclusion is an important value behind this reform.

The aim of publishing this brochure is to provide general information to interested parties from abroad. At the present time vocational education and training is everywhere undergoing changes and many new developments are currently taking place. The relevance and quality of vocational education and training will undoubtedly be enhanced by learning from each other across national borders.

Minister of Education
November 1999

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