Ministry of Education plans to reorganize Vocational schools through obsolescence
Ministry of Education prepares significantly reformat the system of vocational schools. The Minister of Education Sergey Apr presenting Bill « On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on vocational education & raquo ;. This is inments. &Laquo; In Ukraine there are about 1,200 colleges and vocational schools. You have to understand that they were created in Soviet times and were Preferred ’ attributable to plants and factories, which are now gone. Surge is not responsible shnim problems. In addition, a significant number of vocational schools have less than 200 students. This is notreduction, it is that we must have a network of facilities that meet the needs of today & raquo ;, – he said. The bill is offered instead of narrow professional vocational schools to create multi-professional education of a new type – regional centers for vocational education&Ndash; on the Dutch model. &Laquo; What did the Dutch? They have created a multi-regional centers for vocational education. Dutch vocational schools have 10 to 30 thousand students. There is interdisciplinary as it is in higher education. That is to replace the small establishments that have one account, they moved to large multiinstitutions. In our case, when we have a new law on higher education and implement the concept of decentralization, we pass this law major powers to the regional level, the level of field & raquo ;, – said Sergey Apr. The bill also provides for the division of vocational schools into three types: vocational college, professionaland high school and vocational training center. Presentation of the draft law on the reform of vocational education to the Cabinet of Ministers is scheduled for May this year.Source: http://artlife.rv.ua/