Conjunto de decisiones, directrices y objetivos de un organismo oficial para la fijación de las metas y prioridades en materia de formación profesional.
The concept of labour competence emerged in the 1980s in certain industrialized countries, particularly in those which were finding it difficult to link the training system to the needs of manufacturing industry. The problems experienced in these countries were not only quantitative; in fact they were mainly qualitative. The traditional systems of education and training did not correspond to the times.