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Occupations and Careers Handbook for UAE Nationals 2017 Edition Project Focus group – VET Sector

Explore the 2017 edition handbook focused on UAE’s Vocational Education and Training sector, including occupational profiles and changes in the industry. Get insights on career clusters and pathways shaping the future workforce.

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Occupations and Careers Handbook for UAE Nationals 2017 Edition Project Focus group – VET Sector

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  1. Occupations and Careers Handbook for UAE Nationals 2017 Edition Project Focus group – VET Sector 3 October 2016

  2. Today’s focus group

  3. Participant introductions • State your name, position and organisation • Focus group question 1: What has been your experience in the UAE VET Sector?

  4. ABOUT THE HANDBOOK

  5. About the Handbook

  6. YOU ARE HERE 2017 Edition Handbook Project

  7. VET Industry Sector Paragraph Vocational Education and Training: These jobs represent a high priority within the educational field to supplement the growth in the national diversification of the economy with particular attention to manufacturing as well as other related and allied value-add sectors such as oil and gas industries. Bachelor degrees or equivalent plus industry experience are typical, minimum entry requirements in this field.

  8. VET Industry Sector Paragraph Focus Group Question 2: What have been some of the changes in the UAE VET Sector over the past 3 years that should be referred to in the revised VET paragraph for the 2017 edition? Focus Group Question 3: What impact are these changes having on occupations in the VET sector?

  9. Current occupational profiles are based on ISCO The profiles in the Handbook are based on occupational profiles from International Labour Organisation’s International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) System 2008: • Hierarchically structured classification with occupations arranged into unit groups (436 groups), minor groups (130), sub-major groups (43) and major groups (10), based on their similarity in terms of the skill level and skill specialisation required. • Allows the production of relatively detailed internationally comparable data • Facilitates communication between countries about occupations. • Provides a titling and code convention for the listed occupations as well the main tasks and duties performed in the occupations. • Gives more emphasis to the nature of work performed than to education and training requirements of occupations. • There are 10 ISCO-08 major groups, with occupations relevant to the VET sector sitting in Major Group 1 (Managers) and Major Group 2 (Professionals):

  10. Current occupational profiles in 2013 Handbook • The first edition of the Handbook included profiles for the following occupations that exist in the ISCO-08: • 1345 Education Manager • 2320 Vocational Education Teacher • 2424 Training and Development Professional • 2351 Education methods specialist • 2359 Teaching Professionals not elsewhere classified • 2352 Special Needs Teacher • 2353 Other Language Teacher • These profiles were included because they met the following criteria: • Some level of long-term sustainability and criticality in the economy/industry underpinned by prospective multiple career options, exit points and pathways for future self-growth and recognition. • Security, support, and good conditions/remuneration. • Perceived attractiveness and occupational status.

  11. Current occupational profiles – keep or remove?

  12. New occupational profiles?

  13. Career Clusters • The UAE Industry Groupings Career Clusters-Career Pathways diagram was designed as a conceptual diagram to illustrate the central and pivotal role a vision statements such as The Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 (and indeed UAE Vision 2021 and Emirate specific plans such as the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015) play in being a catalysts of change in influencing the future direction and future demand for requisite skills. • These include: • Strategic pillars as per ‘The Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030’ • Strategic enablers • Core “Life Skills” • Industry groupings with hierarchy level career clusters • Career clusters and pathways

  14. Career Clusters – Industry Groups 3 • The Handbook has classified career clusters and career pathways into industry groups. • One benefit in particular is that common underpinning bodies of knowledge and skills, often recognized in an educational and training discipline, or which support a pre-existing discipline for a newly created job, can be drawn together for educational and training efficiency and efficacy. (p. 50 of Handbook). Focus Group Question 4: Should NQA change the clustering for education and training, in particular for VET?

  15. Observer wrap-up • Observers to wrap up participant responses to the focus group questions that will impact on the second edition of the Handbook.

  16. Next steps • You can: • provide feedback on observer’s focus group notes • work with NQA to review existing occupational profiles • work with NQA to write new occupational profiles.

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