Work-based learning as a shift towards improved labour market skills in VET in Latvia
Work-based learning as a shift towards improved labour market skills in VET in Latvia

Summary/Abstract: Work-based learning is becoming increasingly important in training of competitiveemployees for various fields. The labour market requires new skills, and the importance ofgeneric skills tends to grow, alongside with the professional skills. Different stakeholders couldhave different opinions on the skills required for employees. The aim of the current research isto investigate views of employers, vocational education institutions and students on severalaspects of today’s labour market skills. Methods used for empirical research: survey of employers,vocational education institutions’ managers and students. For the evaluation and comparisonof all stakeholder’s opinions, the same questions were used with the same evaluation scale1-10, where 1- not important; 10-very important. For data analysis of survey data the followingindicators of descriptive statistics were used – indicators of central tendency or location:arithmetic mean, mode, median; indicators of dispersion or variability: range, standard deviation,standard error of mean. Survey results indicated that there are similar views on all main aspectsof labour market skills by all the involved groups, clearly recognising the importance of genericskills, alongside with the professional skills in the labour market context.

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