05.10.2023

NEW CHANGES TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Development and introduction of a new list of vocations for vocational education and training, which will provide training in broad-spectrum professions with the possibility of upgrading the acquired vocational qualification, provides for changes to the Law on Vocational Education and Training, submitted to parliament.

The bill provides for four degrees of professional qualification, and they are required:

1. for the first degree - acquired professional knowledge, skills and competences for carrying out routine activities, under unchanging conditions, in the exercise of the profession;
2. for the second degree - acquired professional knowledge, skills and competences for carrying out complex activities, under changing conditions, in the exercise of the profession;
3. for the third degree - acquired professional knowledge, skills and competences for carrying out complex activities, under changing conditions, as well as assuming responsibilities for the work of other persons in the exercise of the profession;
4. For the fourth degree - acquired professional knowledge, skills and competences for carrying out a wide range of activities of complex nature, under changing conditions, as well as taking over management responsibilities for the work of other persons and for the allocation of resources, in the exercise of the profession.

The possibility of distance training in an electronic environment for persons over 16 years of age, at the discretion of the director of the institution and in the presence of a technical ability.

In order to increase the opportunities for mobility and employment of the acquired professional qualification, the accumulation of loans is replaced by the accumulation and transfer of units of results from learning in vocational education and in vocational training.

The proposed legal provisions for the accumulation and transfer of units of the results of learning in vocational education and training are an opportunity for persons who have reached individual units of learning results, to accumulate them to recognize qualification by profession or by part of a profession, and to transfer them from One profession in another of the same field of education, thus ensuring flexibility and patency in the qualification system, writes in the reasons for the bill.

Many of the qualification courses organized for persons over 16 are for the acquisition of professional qualification by part of the profession. Therefore, the law provides for opportunities for qualifying for part of the profession to be defined in the state educational standard. It is regulated that vocational training in part of a profession should include the achievement of at least three units of learning results, with at least one unit of learning results being from specific vocational training.