This issue of EQAVET Newsletter focuses on the importance of learners' voice for strengthening of quality assurance in VET.

The introductory article presents a review of OBESSU (umbrella body for school student unions in Europe) activities regarding strengthening learners’ role in decision-making processes in VET. Next two articles picture students’ involvement in Netherlands and Romania. Newsletter also brings information on two ERASMUS+ projects: TRACKTION project which focuses on tracking graduates and Soufflearning project that focuses on personalized training concept for staff in small and medium-sized enterprises. EQAVET strategic working group activities and plans are presented, with a special emphasis on the role VET learners in quality assurance processes. Last article in this issue presents results and recommendations of the recently published EU study on VET graduate tracking measures.   

 Content:

• Greetings from OBESSU and the world of school student activism
• Student involvement in the Netherlands – Marloes van Bussel (Dutch National Reference Point for EQAVET) and Jasper van Doremalen – VET student and Member of the Board of the national youth organisation for vocational education (JOB)
• Students’ role in the quality assurance of VET – benefits and challenges - The Romanian Case – Serban Iosifescu, Chairman, Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Pre-University Education
• Graduate Tracking and Alumni Relations in VET Schools: two sides of the same coin? – Iván Diego, TRACKTION Project coordinator
• Soufflearning – an innovative and successful approach for work-based learning – Kristin Simon, Mediator and communications trainer
• A strategic view on quality assurance – the learners’ voice – An article by Thea van den Boom, Chair of the EQAVET Working Group on the role of QA in the broader policy context, 2018
• Study on mapping of VET graduate tracking measures in EU Member States – Arancha Oviedo, EQAVET Secretariat
• Events
• News

Full issue in English is available on the link.