PROJECT INTRODUCED AT CANSPEAK ANNUAL CONVENTION

Friday 21 October, I was welcomed by 26 canSpeak centres to the canSpeak Annual Convention 2016 held this year in Angers, France, to share with them the PROLANT CAP project. Following on from an immense interest in teacher training since the previous canSpeak convention in 2015, the morning had been set aside for discussion on […]

QUALITY PRINCIPLES OF PROLANT-CAP PROJECT

Vocational Education & Training (VET) institutions in Europe are using different quality management (QM) systems and methods. The most commonly used are ISO standards and the TQM (Total Quality Management) approach, as well as the EFQM Excellence model or the CAF model. ISO helps to bring processes in line and to concentrate on various issues in detail, while TQM models give a generic overview of all organisational […]

PROLANT-CAP: WORK IN PROGRESS HANDBOOKS AND LESSON PLANS

The third and fourth outputs of the Prolant-Cap project are the development and delivery of lesson plans for the two training programmes relating to the Automotive sector and the Tourism Industry. More specifically, these training programmes will consist of the course syllabus and a teacher´s handbook with 150 individual lesson plans, organised into sections. Each lesson plan will follow a defined structure to ensure that the design […]