Chile Califica - Programme of Continuing Education and Training

The Programme of Continuing Education and Training Chile Califica is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.

The Programme intends to contribute to the productive development of the country and the improvement of opportunities of the people through the creation of a system of continuing education and training.

The main challenges are:

- To answer the country's requirements of competency-based training in order to strengthen its development, improve the levels of literacy, schooling and training of the national population, specifically of the poorest sectors.
- To improve the technical training in order to contribute to the country's development needs and productive diversification. In order to achieve the above, the following problems will be approach: quality problems related to secondary and higher technical training; insufficient coverage regarding the higher technical training; weak connection with the productive world requirements and the regional development; and; lack of articulation of the different levels of training.
- To set up in a gradual manner a national framework of labour competencies, routes of technical training and a system of information for continuing education and training. The above will allow the updating and progress of training and also the recognition of skills, no matter how the competencies have been acquired. It also will allow the enlargement and quality of the training supply and the availability of information on the labour market and on the training opportunities.

The Programme has three types of beneficiaries:
- The poorest sectors of the active population that are actually working or looking for a job and need to improve their labour competencies and their literacy and schooling levels.
- A significant group of young people and workers that will benefit of a quality secondary and higher technical training.
- The active population through the devices that allow evaluation and certification of labour competencies as well as through the devices that allow the flexible progress in different technical training routes according to personal and vocational expectations and demands.

Further information:
http://www.chilecalifica.cl/

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