Implementing ECVET Principles. Reforming Poland’s Vocational Education and Training Through Learning Outcomes Based Curricula and Assessment

The aim of this article is two fold. First, to propose what it means to implement the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) into a national qualifications system. Second, to describe in detail the key elements and broader context of the 2012/2013 vocational education reform in Poland, which introduced the learning outcomes approach and ECVET system. We show that key ECVET principles were implemented in Poland because they were treated more as a means to modernise the national VET system, rather than to promote the international mobility of learners.