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VOCATIONAL TRAINING: RESEARCH AND REALITIES
2002 No. 5 Abstracts |
Algirdas Monkevičius
FEATURES AND TENDENCIES OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING STRATEGY AND POLICY CHANGE IN LITHUANIA
Abstract
The change of vocational education and training system reform is a natural process constantly affected by external economic and social factors. However, this process demands to determine the preconditions for change, i.e. the strong and weak levels of the reform. The article analyses the key dispositions that have provided foundation for VET reform in Lithuania during the last decade and highlights major contradictions of the reform that create preconditions for a new reform strategy.
Key words
Vocational education and training (VET), VET strategy, college, professional standard, vocational teacher training (VET TT), and strategy preconditions.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND COMPETITIVE ECONOMY
Abstract
Vocational education and training systems in all the European countries have
to adapt to the requirements of knowledge society and competitive economy
development. This article addresses major strategic trends of Lithuanian vocational
education and training system reform that started 12 years ago, and presents
its evaluation results. A new VET strategy is being formulated, assessing
the targets it has to achieve in order to guarantee individuals' lifelong
learning and employability.
Key words
Vocational education and training, strategic trends of VET development, knowledge
society, lifelong learning, employment, employability, basic skills, system
of qualifications, teacher training
LABOUR MARKET MONITORING AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Abstract
The article deals with the most important qualities of labour market monitoring,
defining the directions of impact of its outcomes to vocational education
and training. Besides, the importance of labour market monitoring in the activity
of Lithuanian labour exchange and its resources is discussed, and the perspectives
for labour market and vocational training needs research in Lithuania are
foreseen.
Key-words
Labour market monitoring, labour market and vocational education and training
system compatibility, demand and supply of vocational qualifications.
EMPLOYER FUNCTIONS IN INITIAL AND CONTINUING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Abstract
The social dialogue between employers and perspectives of vocational education
and training development are analysed within the context of Lithuanian economic
growth. The trends of social partnership legalization improvement are foreseen
and suggestions for the development of social partnership infrastructure are
presented. The analysis of the social partnership problems in vocational education
and training is carried out, and the solutions are provided.
Key words
Functions of employers, quality of vocational education and training, social
partnership.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE UNEMPLOYED IN THE CONTEXT OF LIFELONG LEARNING
Abstract
The article addresses the practical questions of lifelong learning and gives
a short summary of lifelong learning situation in Lithuania. It discusses
the major weaknesses of the activation of the human potential in Lithuania
with respect to the assessment results of the occupational sector priorities
set by the European Commission. It relates the problem of unemployment to
the structure of adult education and it shows how the rate of scope of vocational
education and training among adults is inverse to the tempo of unemployment
growth.
Key words
Lifelong learning, continuing vocational education and training, vocational
education and training in the labour market, inadequacy in labour market demand
and supply, occupational mobility, human potential development.
Mindaugas Misiūnas, Izabela Savickienė
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF STUDY QUALITY ASSURANCE IN A COLLEGE
Abstract
Article presents implementation and realisation peculiarities of the college study quality assurance system aimed at need satisfaction of institution internal customers - students and staff. It gives the analysis of quality assurance conception, reveals characteristics of quality management systems, and presents the study quality assurance system in Kaunas College.
Key words
Quality, study quality assurance, college, internal customers, need satisfaction.
THE ASSESSMENT OF THE LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PROJECTS IN LITHUANIA IN THE CONTEXT OF LIFELONG LEARNING MEMORANDUM
Abstract
The article analyses the European Union Leonardo da Vinci programme activity
policy in enhancing the VET reform in Lithuania. The influence of separate
programme projects on the renewal of vocational education and training is
assessed in the context of the most important ideas of Memorandum on lifelong
learning. The possibilities for setting national priorities in the programme
are projected.
Key words
Vocational education and training, memorandum on lifelong learning, experimental
project, lifelong learning.
Kęstutis Pukelis, Asta Pundzienė
VOCATIONAL COUNCELLING FOR THE CAREER PROJECTION: DEVELOPMENT OF PARADIGMS
Abstract
Significant achievements in the fields of science and technology and rapid
economical, social and political changes, accompanied by the appearance of
new professions and the disappearance of the old ones, determine a new approach
to the phenomenon of the choice of vocation. The choice of vocation as a social
phenomenon is becoming a constant mode of life of a modern human being. Consequently,
today it is possible to discuss the phenomenon of vocational career designing
as a continuous and inevitable process that concerns every person aiming to
integrate and survive in the constantly changing labour market. In this context
vocational counselling assumes a new significance and becomes continuous vocational
counselling that implies a continuous symbiosis of vocational and career counselling.
The article analyses the paradigms of vocational counselling development, discusses the main vocational counsellor functions in assisting people of various social groups to design their vocational career.
Key words
The choice of vocation, the design of vocational career, continuous vocational
counselling, the change of paradigms.
TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Abstract
The integration of entrepreneurship into vocational education and training
is not merely a trendy idea, or just one more idea among many. At its core
is the need for it to be incorporated "into the context of a fundamental
quest to reorientate ... vocational education and training policy" (
C. Diensberg, 1999). The debate on this subject is only superficially a debate
on means; its core is a debate on values, the quest for educational aims and
their justifications. This was no doubt what Roman Herzog, the former President
of the Federal Republic of Germany, had in mind when he intervened in the
education and training debate and announced: "We need a new culture of
independence and responsibility!" (R. Herzog, 1997).
Using the entrepreneurship approach it will be possible to make vocational education and training viable for globalization and market orientation in the age of information technology. In addition, this kind of reorientation can integrate vocational education and training into the general process of social change represented by individualization, which goes hand in hand in the employment market with a wide spectrum of new forms of work between employment and self-employment. To incorporate these into vocational education and training is a rewarding task for the employment market and an extremely important one for the vocational education and training system.
Key words
Entrepreneurship, social competences, intrapreneurship, co-entrepreneurship,
learning organization, individualization, self-profiling
FEATURES OF VET DEVELOPMENT IN COUNTRIES-CANDIDATES TO
EUROPEAN UNION
Abstract
Assumptions for the reform of vocational education and training in different
European countries and characteristics of systematic VET reform are examined
in this article. Strategic goals and methods of EU PHARE projects in countries-candidates
are analysed. Intended priorities for further vocational education and training
reform are discussed.
Key words
Systematic vocational education and training reform, EU PHARE programme, modernisation
of vocational training and education.
Edmundas Normantas, Irena Žemaitaitytė
LIFELONG VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE NON-FORMAL ADULT EDUCATION SYSTEM
Abstract
The present article is an attempt to overview the most important aspects of
adult lifelong vocational education and training in the non-formal adult education
system that became apparent in the years 1995-1999. It raises the most important
problems of the situation analysis caused by the use of concepts that do not
conform to the juridical basis, as well as by the lack of information about
in-service training.
Key words
Lifelong education, continuing vocational training, in-service training, non-formal
education, labour market vocational training.
CHALLENGES OF THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND TASKS OF THE CONTINUING VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN LITHUANIA
Abstract
Industrial development poses twofold challenges to the continuing vocational
training. Global challenges are common for many countries. The article analyses
such global challenges as the development of the information society, technological
development, globalization of economy. Specific challenges of the industrial
development in Lithuania are determined by internal conditions and factors.
The article analyses the following specific challenges: the unemployment,
structural mismatches of the labor supply and demand, gaps of skills and qualifications
and problems related to the backwardness of the technological development
of industry and the lack of competitiveness. All these challenges imply the
present and future tasks for the continuing vocational training.
Key words
Continuing vocational training, global challenges, information society, knowledge
based economy, employment quality, industrial restructuring, competitiveness
of the company, competitiveness of the region, high technologies, labor demand
and supply mismatches.
