According to CEDEFOP, only 18% of vocational education and training teachers feel recognised and valued in their profession.

Omissions

• The 18% figure appears in a secondary source (ETUCE) that attributes it to Cedefop, but no primary Cedefop publication found supports 18%; the closest primary Cedefop publications state 9%.
• Cedefop's newest evidence is a pilot phase of the European Vocational Teacher Survey based on responses from 735 teachers across 23 EU Member States — a small, non-EU-representative sample that should be presented with that caveat.
• The direction of the error is unusual: the newest data (9%) is even lower than the quoted 18%, so the speaker's general narrative about poor recognition of VET teachers is not weakened by using the outdated figure — but the figure itself is no longer current.
• The exact publication date of the ETUCE article could not be established from the search result, so it is not possible to confirm which Cedefop survey year the 18% figure refers to.

Sources

• PrimaryCedefop — 'VET teachers at a turning point' (publication 6229)Only 9% of teachers feel their profession is valued by society and just 13% consider their salary adequate, affecting the attractiveness of VET
• PrimaryCedefop — 'Policy approaches to tackle VET teacher shortages in the EU' (publication 7101)Only 9% of VET teachers feel valued in their countries.
• SecondaryETUCE (European Trade Union Committee for Education) — position paper on the EU VET StrategyAccording to CEDEFOP, only 18% of VET teachers believe that their profession is valued. For one third of VET teachers their profession was not the first choice.