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The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii – 2016, Hawaii, United States Of America, 8 - 11 January 2016, vol.1, pp.229-244, (Full Text)
This paper presents the results of a research in the field of Vocational Education and
Training (VET) undertaken in the framework of the EU project named “New
approaches to strengthened cooperation facilities for VET institutions and labour
market” (NecVet). The NecVET project has the aim of setting up a network between
vocational education institutions and enterprises to explore the effectiveness of
training programmes for VET students. Moreover, the expectations of labour market
have been compared with the learning programmes provided by the vocational
education institutions through a questionnaire composed by two sections. The first
section collects information about the opinions of representatives of the labour market
about competences and skills of employees as well as the level of communication
between educational institutions and labour market. The second section collects
information about skills and personal capabilities needed in specific enterprise sectors.
The questionnaire has been delivered to a sample of 500 interviewed composed by 10
labour market representatives in 10 different sectors (Health, Electronics and
electricity, ICT, Textile, Mechanics, Construction, Agriculture, Tourism, Business
and administration, Cosmetics) and in 5 European countries (Turkey, Italy, Spain,
Greece, Poland). The years of experience in the specific sector of the representatives
have been also considered in the evaluation of questionnaires. The significance
differences between the opinion of the entrepreneurs for countries and sectors are
presented in this paper. In particular, the results highlight the needs to improve the
training programmes in order to enhance the qualification and competitiveness of
students in the labour market.