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Vocational Education for Employment Law of Georgia on Professional Education. Turin, 19-21 November Lali Bakradze. Structure. Background Goals and objectives of Professional Education Types of Professional education System design Education and training processes NQF for VET
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Vocational Education for EmploymentLaw of Georgia on Professional Education Turin, 19-21 November Lali Bakradze
Structure • Background • Goals and objectives of Professional Education • Types of Professional education • System design • Education and training processes • NQF for VET • National Professional Agency • Other issues • Lessons learnt
Background The Concept of professional Education -2005
Goals and objectives of Professional Education • To satisfy the vocational-educational needs of population, supporting professional development, carrier development and social security of people; • To provide economy with competitive qualified labor force; • To maintain the competitiveness of employed labor force through retraining and professional development; • To support adaptation of population to the new social-economic conditions by means of setting up own businesses and self-employment • To Stimulate of student’s mobility; • To provide favorable conditions for professional development and employment of people facing the risk of social outcast; • To promote LLL; • To develop of social partnership in the sphere of vocational education.
System design - 1 • Governance /Management • Central Government • MoES, MoLHSS, MoCS • Local governments • National Centers (Accreditation, Assessment & curriculum, Teacher Professional Development,) • National Vocational Agency
System design - 2 • Autonomy and accountability of VET establishments (decentralization of management) • Supervision boards of VET Centers • Involvement of students, parents, communities, social partners at local level
System design - 3 • Mechanisms for the proper functioning of the proposed LLL perspective • Qualifications framework • RPL • Role of Credit System • Quality assurance
Education and Training Processes • Development of new educational standards • Development of new vocational curricula based on competences/outcomes, • Teachers training • Information and guidance • Learning methods for adult VET
National Professional Agency VET Council 8 members • MoES • MoLHSS • MoED • MoCS • CSO • Employers • Associations • 3. VET Providers Chairman Government of Georgia MoES MoLHSS
NQF for VET • Qualification & Levels • Credits • List of professions • Professional standards
Recognition of Prior Learning The objectives of attestation are: a) Assessment and certification of a non-formal learning b) Recognition of vocational learning and qualifications obtained in foreign countries. c) Assessment and certification of the formal vocational education obtained in Georgia.
Other Important Issues • Funding • Role of the Professional Associations
Lessons Learnt • The commitment to elaborating NQF for VET by 2009 is very optimistic • Some definitions provided in the Law is to be made more precise • The professional standards for HPP should not be established • The shift from describing what I teach to describing what you learn is a major one
Georgian Education System Doctoral program Labor Market Master’s program Bachelor's Program UNEs Higher Professional Program UNEs UNE General Skills VET General Secondary School Basic School