Abbreviations and acronyms
Alto Comissariado para as Migrações - High Commissioner for Migration (Portugal)
After-School Childcare Scheme (Ireland)
Allgemeinbildende Höhere Schule - General higher secondary schools (Austria)
Academic Information Centre (Latvia)
Agenzia Nazionale per le Politiche Attive del Lavoro - National Agency for Active Labor Policies (Italy)
Action Plan for Jobs (Ireland)
Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood
Bildung durch Sprache und Schrift - Education through Language and Writing (Germany)
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)
Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales - Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs (Germany)
Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend - Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Germany)
BMBF-Programm Berufsorientierung für Flüchtlinge - Extended career orientation programme on VET programmes in the handcraft sector (Germany)
Bundesweite Informatikwettbewerbe - Nationwide computer science competitions (Germany)
Canada Apprentice Loan
Community Childcare Subvention (Ireland)
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Centro de Formación Técnica - Technical training centre (Chile)
Context, Inputs, Process, Outcomes
Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results
Colegio Nacional de Educación Profesional Técnica - National College of Technical Education (Mexico)
centre psycho–médico-social - psycho-social-medical centre (French Community, Belgium)
Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Ireland)
Delivering Equality of opportunity in Schools (Ireland)
Direction de l'évaluation, de la prospective et de la performance - Department of Evaluation, Foresight and Performance (France)
European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education
European Commission
Early Childhood Care and Education (Ireland)
early childhood education and care
European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training
Estratégia Nacional para a Integração das Comunidades Ciganas - National Strategy for the Integration of Roma Communities (Portugal)
European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Education Policy Institute (England, United Kingdom)
Education Policy Outlook
European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education
European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for VET
European Qualifications Framework
Education Review Office (New Zealand)
economic, social and cultural status
European Social Fund
Education and Training Board (Ireland)
Education and Training Boards Ireland (national representative body overseeing ETBs)
An Foras Áiseanna Saothair - former Training and Employment Authority (Ireland), replaced by SOLAS
Framework Educational Programme (Czech Republic)
Further Education and Training (Ireland)
Finnish Education Evaluation Centre
Programme for Research and Innovation in the Educational Sector (Norway)
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
gross domestic product
Groupe de prévention du décrochage scolaire - group to prevent school dropout (France)
Hoger beroepsonderwijs - Higher Vocational Education (Flemish Community, Belgium)
Higher Education Authority (Ireland)
Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (Australia)
information and communication technology
Instituto Profesional - Professional Institute (Chile)
Indigenous Student Success Program (Australia)
Istituti Tecnici Superiori - Higher Technical Institutes (Italy)
instituts universitaires de technologie - university institutes of technology (France)
Japan Student Services Organization
Kinderförderungsgesetzes - Childcare Funding Act (Germany)
Kultusministerkonferenz - Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder (Germany)
Korean Qualifications Framework
Leaving Certificate programme (Ireland)
Leaving Certificate Applied (Ireland)
Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (Ireland)
Ley Orgánica para la Mejora de la Calidad Educativa - Organic Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality (Spain)
Läroplan för Förskolan - Reforms to the ECEC curriculum (Sweden)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
Ministerio de Educación - Ministry of Education (Chile)
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport (Slovenia)
Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education
National Action Plan on Integration (Germany)
National Certificate of Educational Achievement (New Zealand)
National Competency Standard (Korea)
National Disability Coordination Officer (Australia)
neither employed nor in education or training
Nordisk institut for studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning - Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (Norway)
National Implementation Research Network (United States)
Neue Mittelschule - New Secondary School (Austria)
National Partnership (Agreements) (Australia)
national qualification framework
Nederlands- Vlaamse Accreditatieorganisatie - Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (The Netherlands)
New Zealand Qualifications Authority
New Zealand Qualifications Framework
Orientações Curriculares para a Educação Pré-escolar - Curriculum Guidelines for Preschool Education (Portugal)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Pathways in Technology (Australia)
Programme d'aide à l'Accueil en Urgence des Scientifiques en Exil - Programme of Assistance to the Emergency Hospitality of Scientists in Exile (France)
Public Employment Services (Slovenia)
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
Programme for International Student Assessment
Post Leaving Certificate Course (Ireland)
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia)
Plano Nacional de Promoção do Sucesso Escolar - National Programme to Promote Educational Success (Portugal)
programme personnalisé de réussite éducative - personalised programme for educational success (France)
Prueba de Selección Universitaria - university admission exam (Chile)
Plan de Refuerzo, Orientación y Apoyo - Plan for Reinforcement, Guidance and Support (Spain)
Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (Australia)
Réseaux d’Échanges Réciproques de Savoirs - Reciprocal Knowledge Exchange Networks (France)
(United Nations) Sustainable Development Goals
State Employment Agency (Latvia)
State Education Development Agency (Latvia)
special education needs
Ley de Subvención Escolar Preferencial - Preferential School Subsidy (Chile)
Sociaal- Economische Raad van Vlanderen - Social and Economic Council of Flanders (Flemish Community, Belgium)
Social Mobility Commission (England, United Kingdom)
Snapshots (Please see Chapter 7)
Slovenian Qualifications Framework Act
An tSeirbhís Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna - Further Education and Training Authority (Ireland)
science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Secondary-Tertiary Programmes (New Zealand)
Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration
Third Generation of the Education Territories of Priority Intervention Programme (Portugal)
Technology and Learning Fund (Ontario, Canada)
technical and vocational education and training (Chile)
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
vocational education and training
Youth Guarantee