NATIONAL AGENCY FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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NATIONAL AGENCY FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND
TRAINING

• CHANCES AND CHALLENGES TO CHANGE FOR
  BULGARIASenior Citizens' Education
• Mariya Antova, vice-president
• Sofia

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Strengths

• Common legislative basis everybody has the
  right of education and training without age
  restrictions
• Institutional provision access of senior
  citizens to all institutions providing education
  and training
• Comparatively high educational statute of the
  people aged 50 - the majority of them possess
  secondary and higher education degree (more than
  50)
• Good practices (acquired as a result of
  international projects)

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Weaknesses

• Lack of institutional co-ordination
• Uneven regional allocation of the education and
  training institutions
• Low motivation for learning of the people aged
  50
• Lack of popularity of the senior citizens
  education
• Lack of flexibility
• Lack of different learning programs designed for
  senior citizens, satisfying individual and
  non-economic needs
• Lack of a systematic approach by the senior
  citizens guidance and consulting
• Certain reticence of the activities and
  unsufficient information for the outcomes.

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Opportunities

• Analysing the sequences of the life-long
  learning policy for the senior citizens
• Clarification of the role of the senoir citizens
  learning for adopting a more flexible approach by
  the transition of full-time work and the
  retirement (part-time jobs, voluntarily work,
  perods of full-time employment and off-days and
  etc)
• Research for the relation between the activities
  of the senior citizens and their health
• Provision of specific information and
  recomendations for activationg the senior
  citizens more free-time activities, voluntarily
  work in order to support their mental and
  physical condition
• Dissemination of good practices.

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Threats

• Neglecting from the state and the society the
  importance of the senior citizens education
• Lack of public discussion and involvement and
  rely only on the very limited capabilities of the
  training institutions for independent actions
• Augmentation of the restrictions due to lack of
  legislative knowledge or non-compliance with the
  law
• Lack of a qualification system for the adults
  trainers (incl. for the senior citizens)

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• THE EFFECTIVE STRATEGY TAKES THE ADVANTAGE OF THE
  OPPORTUNITIES, USES THE STRENGHTS AND AVOIDS THE
  THREATS

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CHALLENGES

• Transparency
• Quality
• Accessibility
• Recognition of competencies and qualifications
• Opening to the world

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THE TASKS FOR BULGARIA

• Development of flexble and effective systems for
  senoir citizens education
• Quality assurance for the senoir citizens
  education
• Assurance of equity for all cathegories
  educational activities
• Building of the key competences learning,
  communication, civic society, enterpreneurship
• Design of the education to be more attractive
  and accessible
• Increase the roleq the quality and the
  co-ordination of the informing and guidance
• Involvement of the senior citizens in the
  planning and the organization of the education
• Involvement of the media ang the public
  institutions in the activities for senior
  citizens education.

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THE ROLE OF THE NAVET

• Development of National Infomation System for
  control, co-ordination and stimulation of the
  training providers
• Ensures public access to information for the
  licensed by the NAVET training providers
• Develops the National Guidance Strategy
• Keeps an open dialogue with the VET
  institutions, the social partnersq NGO-s and the
  public
• Participates in the development and
  implementation of systems for introdusing
  european tools for validationq recognition and
  assesment of qualifications
• Disseminates good practices in the life-long
  learning and guidance and the continious
  vocational training

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NAVET - MORE ACTIVITIES FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS
EDUCATION

• To initiate the development of strategic
  documents for the senior citizens education
• To focus the pulic attention on this problems
• To use it's tripartite management and its
  contacts with the local authorities in order to
  promote the activities
• To guide and support the providers of education
  for senior citizens
• To disseminate the good practices.