EUROPEAN CREDIT SYSTEM FOR VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION AND TRAINING (ECVET) (15289/06)
Letter from the Chairman to Bill Rammell
MP, Minister for Life-long Learning, Further and Higher Education,
Department for Education and Skills
Thank you for your letter of 19 December 2006[125]
which was discussed by EU Sub-Committee G at its meeting on 25
January.
We note that, while you have some reservations
about the need for the ECVET system, you support the process of
consultation set out in the Commission document. We also welcome
this wide consultation with stakeholders. A particular point we
would wish to emphasise, is the desirability that the ECVET system
should provide for recognition that the ability to communicate
in a foreign language is often a necessary part of the overall
skills needed to apply training effectively in countries other
than that of a person's maternal tongue.
We would be grateful if you could send us a
copy of the UK response to the Commission document when this is
ready, and let us know if, and when, concrete proposals for an
ECVET system are likely to be published. If they are, we would
expect them to be subject to a separate process of scrutiny.
In the meantime, we are content to clear this
item from scrutiny.
26 January 2007
125 Refers to signed Explanatory Memorandum from Minister
dated 19 December 2006. Back
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