Glossary

VET provider

DEFINITION 1: An organisation or individual that provides education or training services.

COMMENT: education and training providers may also be:
1. organisations specifically set up for this purpose;
2. employers, who provide training as a part of their business activities.

Training providers also include independent individuals who offer services.

SOURCE: Cedefop: Terminology of European education and training policy-a selection of 100 key terms. CEDEFOP, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2008.

HYPERLINK: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/publications/13125.aspx

 

DEFINITION 2:  Providers are public and private VET institutions and companies that supply VET and related services.

SOURCE: Vocational and Training Institutions, 2009. Designed and edited by Vladimir Gasskov, ILO, Geneva, 2009.r GASSKOV

HYPERLINK: http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/2006/106B09_15_engl.pdf

 

RELATED TERMS: Education/training provider