OECD Skills Strategy Implementation Guidance for Flanders, Belgium

Abbreviations and acronyms

The following are the main acronyms cited in the report. Other acronyms cited occasionally are defined where used.

AES

Adult Education Survey

AHOVOKS

Agentschap voor Hoger Onderwijs, Volwassenonderwijs, Kwalificaties en Studietoelagen, the Flemish Agency for Higher Education, Adult Education, Qualifications and Allowances

AIC

Akaike Information Criterion

BGT

Burning Glass Technologies

BIC

Bayesian Information Criterion

CELM

Centre of Expertise for Labour Market Monitoring, or Steunpunt Werk in Dutch

CI

Conditional Independence

EM

Expectation Maximisation

ESCO

European Skills, Competences, Qualification and Occupations

EU

European Union

EVC

Erkenning van Verworven Competenties, or Skills Validation in English.

GOAL

Guidance and Orientation of Adult Learners, Erasmus+ project

HBO

Hoger beroepsonderwijs, or Higher Vocational Education in English

HPWP

High Performance Workplace Practices

IBO

Individuele Beroepsopleiding, Flemish Vocational Training Programme for Individuals in Enterprises

ICT

Information and Communication Technology

ILA

Individual Learning Account

ISCO-08

International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008

KMO

Kleine en Middelgrote Ondernemingen, or SMEs in English

LCA

Latent Class Analysis

LFS

Labour Force Survey

LIA

Local Independence Assumption

ML

Maximum Likelihood

MOOC

Massive Open Online Courses

NGO

Non-Governmental Organisation

NT2

Nederlands als tweede taal, Dutch as a second language

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OKOT

Onderwijs Kwalificerende Opleidings Trajecten, a Qualifying Trajectory with a VDAB Training Contract

PIAAC

Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (Survey of Adult Skills)

RIA

Regulatory Impact Assessment

SERV

Sociaal-Economische Raad van Vlaanderen, the Flemish Social Economic Council

SME

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise

SYNTRA

Vlaams Agentschap voor Ondernemersvorming, or the Agency for Entrepreneurial Training in English

VDAB

Vlaamse Dienst voor Arbeidsbemiddeling en Beroepsopleiding, or the Flemish Public Employment Service (PES) in English

VESOC

Vlaams Economisch Sociaal Overlegcomité, the Tripartite Committee with Social Partners and the Flemish Government, the SERV is responsible for the secretariat

VLAMT

Vlaams Arbeidsmarktonderzoek van de Toekomst or Flemish Labour Market Research of the Future in English

VLOR

Vlaamse Onderwijsraad, the Flemish Education Council

WSE

Beleidsdomein Werk en Sociale Economie, or the Domain of Work and Social Economy in English