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Upskilling

Short-term targeted training typically provided following initial education or training, and aimed at supplementing, improving or updating knowledge, skills and competences.

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This term is close to, but not synonymous with: retraining / reskilling.

Source:
Cedefop, Glossary. Terminology of European education and training policy, (accessed 03/2023)


Improving skills (e.g. by further training).

Source:
NCVER (Australia), VOCEDplus: Glossary of VET, (accessed 12/2022)


Training which aims to enable a person to gain new skills in his occupation in order to advance into a higher skill level.

Source:
Ministry of Labour, VTC, Department of statistics, National Centre of Human Resources, Glossary of selected terminology: The labour market and vocational education and training - Occupational safety and health. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 2005 - Not available online


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