Throughout the project, the OECD Secretariat received essential guidance and substantive input from the Ad hoc Working Group on Professional Tertiary Education. The authors are grateful to its members, who participated in meetings, provided comments on working documents and completed the OECD data collection on professional tertiary education. The authors are grateful to colleagues in the European Commission, who provided guidance and feedback throughout the project, in particular Chiara Riondino, Norbert Schoebel, Tim Schreiber and Kinga Szebeni. The report benefitted from the knowledge of several experts. Simon Field provided valuable input throughout the project as external expert, Denise Amyot, Slavica Černoša, Dietmar Eglseder, Cláudia Sarrico and Henno Theisens provided valuable input into the workshop conducted as part of the project. Hans Daale (Chain5) shared valuable insights throughout the project.
This project was conducted under the overall guidance of the Group of National Experts on Vocational Education and Training. We are also grateful to colleagues in the Indicators of Education Systems Working Party, the Network on Labour Market, Economic and Social Outcomes and the Group of National Experts on Higher Education for the opportunity to share emerging insights from our work with their members and benefit from their feedback. Within the OECD, the project and the draft report benefited greatly from comments of a number of OECD colleagues, including Éric Charbonnier, Marie-Hélène Doumet, Gara Rojas Gonzalez, Shinyoung Jeon, Małgorzata Kuczera, Simon Roy, Rodrigo Torres and Thomas Weko.