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VET SECTOR &
SOCIAL
PARTNERS IN
BiH
Slavica Ivošević
Deputy Director of the Agency for Preschool,
Primary and Secondary Education BiH ,
Head of VET Department
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Legal framework for social partneship
Important documents for improvement of VET in BiH:
• 2000, "Green Paper": Policy and Strategy for Vocational
Education and Training;
• 2001, "White Paper": Vocational Education and Training
in BiH;
• 2003, Decision on the Nomenclature of Occupations (13
families,100 occupations);
• 2005, Review / Revision of Public Administration of
Education
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Legal framework for social partnership
Important documents for VET improvement in
BiH:
•2006, Strategy for Development of VET in BiH 2007–
2013;
•2007, Law on the Agency for Preschool, Primary and
Secondary Education BiH;
•2008, Framework Law on VET in BiH;
•2011, Baseline Qualifications Framework BiH.
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Options given by the legal framework
→ Framework Law on VET anticipates establishment of the
Tripartite Advisory Councils
• Enable connections between VET and the labour
market; advisory role;
• Tripartite Councils include representatives of
employers, trade unions and competent educational
authorities;
• In BiH,Tripartite Councils are in the phase of
establishment at the level of entities, cantons and
Brcko District.
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Options given by the legal framework
• Every school establishes Advisory Council, including
representatives of the local labor market connected to
education and training of specified occupations.
→ Eestablishment of Tripartite Advisory
Councils in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not
fully operational yet.
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Key social partners in VET in BiH
- current status •Social partnership is not yet at the level of a constructive
partnership with education system in BiH;
•Number of key partners that are active at the level of
entities and cantons is large, but the links between them
are insufficient, fragile and complicated.
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Key social partners in VET in BiH
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Ministries of Labour and Employment,
Ministries of Education
Agencies for Labour and Employment BiH & FBiH
Employment Services,
Chambers of Commerce & Chambers of Crafts,
Associations of Employers,
Trade unions and NGOs engaged in informal types of training,
VET schools and Centers for adult education,
State, entity, cantonal and municipal authorities,
Agencies for Local and Regional Development,
Centres for the development of small and medium enterprises.
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Mechanisms of cooperation with social
partners in VET
• Lack of links between educational institutions and the
labor market;
• Social partners are not sufficiently included in curriculum
development in regard to the labor market needs;
• Legislation gives the local economy a possibility of direct
participation in developing the content of curriculum in
schools;
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Mechanisms of cooperation with social
partners in VET
• Dialogue of social partners will improve the initiatives for:
introduction of new occupations, revision of the existing
nomenclature of occupations and modernization of
existing occupations ;
• Key priority of the labor market is - entrepreneurship
• Adopted Strategy on Entrepreneurial Learning in
Education System in BiH (2012-2015).
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Mechanisms of cooperation with social
partners in VET
• It is necessary to develop procedures for direct
cooperation of stakeholders in VET in BiH;
• One of the EU projects was engaged in developing a
methodology for linking social partners and education
authorities,
• VET Department of the Agency for Preschool, Primary
and Secondary Education will also work on the
development of a methodology for establishment of
links between social partners and education authorities.
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Challenges for the future development of
social partnership in VET
• Establish procedures and protocols of cooperation;
• Facilitate the establishment and functioning of the
Tripartite Advisory Councils;
• Establish a mechanism that enables tax deduction to the
companies, in order to strengthen cooperation between
industry and educational institutions;
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Challenges for the future development of
social partnership in VET
• Increase participation of economy in creation of
educational policy;
• Ensure structural dialogue of partners;
• Clarify mobility and connection between VET sector and
higher education - fifth degree in the Baseline
Qualifications Framework;
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Challenges for the future development of
social partnership in VET
• Organize training for the unemployed to independently
and actively seek employment, in terms of preparing for
a new job, or to improve existing professional
knowledge, skills and competences;
• Organise professional training after completion of
general education in order to be prepared for the job;
• Organize additional training and retraining;
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Challenges for the future development of
social partnership in VET
• Establish a balance between demand and the labour
force supply at the labour market;
• Adjust admission policies in VET schools to the labour
market needs;
• Increase labor force mobility;
• Establish the system of professional counselling and the
system of professional orientation;
• Develop the concept of lifelong learning and the system
of adult education;
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Contact:
Agency for Preschool, Primary and Secondary
Education BiH
VET Department, Banja Luka,
Brace Potkonjaka 2, 78 000 Banja Luka,BiH
tel: 051 430 710; fax: 051 430 711; WEB: www.vetbih.org
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