Strategy

Priorities for vocational education - 2009

Main objectives:

1. Establish a quality assurance system:

• Develop conceptually new approaches to quality assurance in skills training;
• Develop competence-based national standards;
• Introduce training schemes based on different levels of qualification and terms;
• Assure the certificate the graduate receives to the actual level of qualification.

2. Improve the funding system:

• Schools directly manage their financial resources;
• There is a correlation between the school performance and the amount of funding allocated;
• Community and government involvement in managing the vocational education;
• Funding depends on the final outcome.

3. Upgrading the management system of vocational education:

• Raising the autonomy of vocational schools, expanding the authorities of school directors  together with their personal responsibility for the quality of teaching;
• Facilitating community and industry driven skills training;
• Fighting corruption through improved management.

4. Improving the legislation for vocational education:

• Developing a new Concept of vocational education;
• Draft Law on amending the Law of Ukraine “On Vocational Educaiton”;
• Developing draft decrees of the Cabinet of Ministers “On Amending the Regulations on Vocational Schools”; “On assisting the vocational school graduates in finding employment”; “On Amending the Regulations on allocating workplaces for the vocational school students for on-the-job practicum”; “On employing, dismissing, contracting directors of vocational schools”;
• Developing methodological recommendations for the vocational schools funding;
• Transforming national vocational education standards into module-based syllabi and curricula.

5. Promotion campaign in order to raise the prestige of trade occupations.