In which direction should vocational education be developed? What is the role of the business in supporting schools and how should schools promote the business? For these and many other questions participants of a panel discussion tried to answer during a grand opening of the "Young HR" programme in Bydgoszcz.

The conference was accompanying the opening of a regional training centre in complex of automotive schools in Bydgoszcz (28 April). The school is twelfth which was registered in "Young HR" programme - a project organized by Inter Cars and its partners: Bosch, Castrol, Luk Ina Fag, ContiTech, Mahle, NTN SNR, OSRAM and SKF. The idea is to support education of pupils in schools with automotive profile by providing them with modern garage equipment. This way young people can learn on equipment, which is used in professional repair garages. To date each of the schools received equipment worth PLN 100,000 and trainings worth PLN 30,000.

The idea of "Young HR" was supported by the topic of the conference: "Vocational training versus expectations of labour market ". One of the speakers was Iwona Waszkiewicz, Director of the Department of Education and Sport of the City of Bydgoszcz, who said, among other things, that adjustment of schools to the needs of labour market is the first and most important objective of Education Development Strategy of the City. The effects of the policy are already visible in statistics, according to which 60% of high school pupils in Bydgoszcz are attending to vocational schools (both technical schools and vocational ones), and 40% to general preparatory secondary schools. This is a sensation on national scale, since general education statistics in Poland are exactly opposite, 6 to 4 for the benefit of the general secondary education. This shows that educational authorities of the city are perfectly aware of market needs, and the "Young HR" programme got to a fertile ground on which similar initiatives are treated seriously and can count on support.

source: Nowoczesny Warsztat
01-06-2014
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