this new legislation strongly supports workbased learning as schools are now encouraged to establish partnerships with companies for providing practical training in accordance to their needs according to cedefop european centre for the development of vocational training the new schoolcompany partnerships may gradually change the nature of initial vet transforming the traditional schoolbased supplydriven system to a demanddriven workbased learning system cedefop a recent amendment to the school act is also linking the state funding of vet schools to the labour market relevance of their programmes