Education/training provider

DEFINITION 1: Any organisation or individual providing education or training services.

COMMENT: education and training providers may be organisations specifically set up for this purpose, or they may be other, such as employers, who provide training as a part of their business activities. Training providers also include independent individuals who offer services.

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

HYPERLINK: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/4064_en.pdf

DEFINITION 2: Organisation that provides education/training , either as a main or ancillary objective. This can be a public educational institution as well as a private enterprise, non-governmental organization or non-educational public body.

SOURCE: Adapted from UIS Glossary, UIS-UNESCO.
 

HYPERLINK: http://uis.unesco.org/en/glossary