Access to Education and Training
DEFINITION 1: Conditions, circumstances or requirements (e.g. qualification, education level, skills or work experience, etc.) governing admittance to and participation in education and training institutions or programmes.
SOURCE: Terminology of European education and training policy- a selection of 100 key terms CEDEFOP, 2008. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
HYPERLINK: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/publications/13125.aspx
DEFINITION 2: A policy or set of strategies that ensure that vocational education and training is responsive to the needs of all members of the community.
NOTE: Also called equity
SOURCE: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) VET GLOSSARY
HYPERLINK: http://www.ncver.edu.au/resources/glossary.htm