The dual training, a new approach to vocational education and training

Abstract

Despite the continuing efforts in our country to conceive the Vocational Education and Training System with an integrative approach, as recommended by European Union, we are a long way from achieving it. For that reason, youth unemployment rates remain high and long term unemployment is perpetuated. The basic problem of conceiving the Vocational Education and Training System in a fragmented way, according to age of the beneficiaries, to the relationship of them with the labor market or to the corresponding Administration in each case, is the inefficiency of the System itself. The Vocational Education and Training System is organized as a first step towards work. The essential prerequisite for its effectiveness is that it should flow from companies, from the labor market itself. The companies can determine which their real training needs are and which competences future professionals need to acquire. Dual Vocational Education and Training is a different modality of offer that is covering the failings of the system, achieving, by its nature, a closer relationship between the Vocational Education and Training System and the companies. Temporarily it is resolving problems of the Vocational Education and Training System that should be addressed directly. And the efforts made in Dual Vocational Education and Training should be done in order to achieve a high-quality implementation, mainly based on their qualitative results.