Thursday, April 21, 2016

Education in Poland. Minister of education: vocational schools must be permanently associated with the economy – Money.pl

We need to build vocational education, which will be permanently associated with the economy – said Education Minister Anna Zalewska at a meeting with entrepreneurs. She pointed out that in June will be presented changes in the education.

– The education system must not only change, but in the case of vocational education – to change quite quickly. Every meeting with employers telling me clearly that there is no time to wait – said the minister during a meeting last Thursday in the capital headquarters of the Polish Chamber of Commerce.

In her opinion, if we do not use the next four years to build vocational education, which permanently will be related to the economy, “the next generation we will not forgive.”

She emphasized that important to her such discussions and presenting different ideas, because in June the Special Economic Zone in Walbrzych present together with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of development Matthew Morawieckim changes that await vocational education.

– moving towards a dual solution German-Austrian, but we realize that as long as we do not have built such a structure employers or business who willingly dołożyłby to this system. In Germany, employers are in fact organized and a lot of money teach, to educate young workers. So, somewhere half way we have to meet, or draw a plan for the next four years to forever work out a specific procedure – Zalewska said.

The major recognized the flexibility of writing of curricula. – It can not be that the employer comes in and says he needs a given profession, and someone responds that in three years will get permission from the Ministry of Education. We want to restore patency up this path, so that actually the teacher, who is in the system together with the employer in the period, which needs these grounds created – she said.

She added that it is also considering “how far and where we aim “when it comes to teacher training. She stressed that, despite the overall “oversupply of teachers,” missing in vocational education and does not have enough time to train them, because even a bachelor potrwałby three years.

– Hence the dual system. This entrepreneur is an engineer who works in a specific technology on a specific machine. And we have to rip the teacher, but because he has to take care of these children. But of course we can not imagine that the teacher state of the engineer and he will be looking at his hands – said the minister.

She noted that such discussions should be building “bridges and flexibility of vocational school.” She admitted that part of the promotion of education could also be a change of name to “technical school” because “zawodówka” associate youth negatively.

– We June encapsulate the assumptions already planned changes. However, before the vocational schools come first vintages reaching the new system, it will take several years. And we have a clear recommendation from the prime minister that there must be “change to change,” ie. Do not wait, just in 2017. Have to be a new vocational school. And we are largely ready, but we still listen to country comments – emphasized Zalewska.

Vice President of the National Chamber of Commerce and president of the Association of Vocational Development in Warsaw, Andrzej Pilat expressed support for the work of ministry. He noted that the combination of vocational schools and business is extremely important to an employer wanting to hire an employee meets the conditions do not have to go “right from the start to teach.” – It went so far that some of the big players want to go back to the well with a communist school-plant – he said.

– It is important to vocational school corresponds to the needs of the business. Now more and more we have a situation that people after studying eg. Management come to us on such courses. Welding, because then you have no problem finding a job. Also important is the system of adult education, well-organized vocational courses. It is important to prepare human resources for the needs of the economy, because we have too many unemployed often after graduation, and on the other hand, employers can not find workers. Business is there to make money. Education will be supported by them, when to them will in the future also business – summed Pilate.

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