ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the Mexican case study undertaken as part of the comparative study of the implementation and impact of National Qualifications Frameworks (NQF). In Mexico, basic education is compulsory and employers are supposed to be legally bound to develop their own training programmes. Education is controlled by the Secretariat of Public Education and the Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare registers the training programmes offered by employers. Also national education policies have been emphasising labour competences in upper-level technological education. The Mexican government negotiated a loan from the World Bank to develop and implement the Technical Education and Training Modernization Project (PMETyC). The World Bank perspective was that the country needed to increase economic productivity and develop a more highly skilled workforce. An English construction company was interested in contracting with a Mexican plaster company called Taylor Logistic Services for work in London.
