Key competences in Vocational Education and Training FRANCE

In France, since 2013, school system has been reformed to improve initial education and to foster the acquisition of key competences by pupils (4). The reform act foresees that school education promotes the development of the child, allows him to acquire a culture, prepares him for the world of work and for the exercise of his responsibilities as an individual and citizen. It develops the knowledge, competences and culture required for the exercise of citizenship in the contemporary society of information and communication. It promotes the sense of initiative.’