Transcript National Agency for vocational Education and Training

NATIONAL AGENCY FOR
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND
TRAINING, BULGARIA
The 4th meeting of the SEEVET-Net
11-12 July, 2011
Chisinau, Moldova
STATUTE AND MAIN ACTIVITIES OF NAVET
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NAVET is a specialized body to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of
Bulgaria for licensing of activities and coordination of the institutions related to
vocational guidance, training and education. It was established in 2000 with VET
Law.
The activities of NAVET are organized in the following main directions:
- Participation in the development of policy documents in the field of VET and their
implementation
- Development and updating of the basic documents for regulation of vocational
education and training system in the country – List of Professions for Vocational
Education and Training and State Vocational Standards for acquiring qualification
in professions
- Licensing and control of Centers for Vocational Training of adults (employed and
unemployed persons)
- Licensing and control of Centers for Information and Vocational Guidance
TRIPARTITE PRINCIPLE – MAIN CHARACTERISTIC
OF NAVET
Equal representative quota in the Managing Board and Expert
Commissions in vocational areas of:
 Ministries
 Nationtionaly representative employers’ organizations
 Nationtionaly representative employees’ organizations
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Cooperation of NAVET with MEYS, MLSP, EA – participation of
NAVET in interinstitutional working groups for development of policy
documents and for improvement of the legislative basis of VET
Cooperation Agreements between NAVET and all nationally
representative employers’ and employees’ organizations, as well as with
branch organization in different economic sector
CONTRIBUTION OF NAVET TO QUALITY ASSURANCE
OF VET
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Maintaining of adequate to the labour market requirements and needs List of
professions for VET– classified in vocational areas and levels of vocational
qualifications (4 levels according to the complexity of work tasks and activities)
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Development and updating of State Vocational Standards (SVS) for acquiring
qualification in profession – learning outcomes (LO) oriented since 2007, since
last year a process of restructuring learning outcomes description in units of LO
oriented to implementation of credit system
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Licensing of Centres for vocational training – the procedures include evaluation
of the training content, facilities and staff against the requirements defined in the
SVS, in the evaluation process experts in the respective vocational area involved
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Follow up control by experts from NAVET, joint inspections with Employment
Agency’s experts
MAIN NATIONAL GOALS FOR THE VET SYSTEM
IN BULGARIA
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To create NQF applicable for all national educational and qualifications
levels
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To elaborate BGCVET on the principles and technical specifications of
ECVET
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To secure quality of the VET system
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To build a coherent national VET system as a synergic overarching
architecture, comprising all instruments (NQF, ECVET, ECTS, EQARF,
Europass)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VET
NATIONAL LEVEL – LEGISLATIVE BASIS
LAW FOR VET
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Regulates the VET system – the VET system includes vocational guidance,
vocational education and vocational training
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Amendments are under development aimed at ensuring legislative prerequisites for
implementation of EU instruments in VET – implementation of national quality
assurance model, implementation of credit transfer in VET, functioning of a system
for validation of non-formal and informal learning and building up of a lifelong
career guidance system
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VET
AT NATIONAL LEVEL - NQF
National Qualifications Framework
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Draft of NQF has been developed and published in June 2011 for public
discussion which will continue until September 2011
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It includes one preparatory 0 level and 8 levels
PREREQUISITES FOR ECVET MPLEMENTATION
NATIONAL CONTEXT
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8 levels of the draft NQF
National VET system has 4 levels which are compatible to the EQF-levels
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The List of professions
Every qualification from the List of professions has its definite level – I, II, III
or IV
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The State Vocational Standards (SVS) are learning outcomes oriented
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Each qualification is divided in competences and each competence could be
specific for the particular qualification or common for several qualifications
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In SVS the competences are structured in two groups:
General professional competences
Specific competencies for the specialization
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The assessment of the learning outcomes achieved is on the basis of criteria and
indicators for assessment, which are part of a National Examination Programme for
the acquisition of a vocational qualification for a profession
NATIONAL APPROACH TO ECVET IMPLEMENTATION
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In the SVS for each qualification there is a division of a qualification in a
set of competences
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The competences are described in terms of LO
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The competences could be easily designed into Units of learning outcomes
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Determination of Units common for 2/3 qualifications in the particular area
at different level of NQS/EQF. These common Units have different weight
in different qualifications and ensure upgrading of the professional career
of individuals
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The approach and its implementation is in a process of development,
allocation of credit points is still under consideration
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDATION FOR
EQARF FOR VET
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Analysis of quality assurance in VET has been developed – assessment of
the legislative framework, results of the activities implemented by the key
actors aimed at improvement of access, training content, methods and
facilities with respect to labour market current and perspective
requirements and needs; outlines the main directions of actions for the
future
Model of quality assurance system in VET incorporating quality indicators
for each phase of the quality assurance cycle is under development