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Emergency vocational training programs

• Republic of Moldova, country exercise

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Diagnosis, key issues

• Lack of motivational education at all levels
  (secondary, university, post-graduate)
• Brain drain, Rigid labor market
• Poor financing (public, private)
• Lack of leadership, entrepreneurial spirit
• Student-interest driven education instead of
  market driven
• Traditionally state-run education, no much
  changes in curricula

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Education system, key figures

• Vocational 70
• Colleges 47
• Universities 36, incl. 16 state, 20 private
• 114 th students
• 137 qualifications
• 5,9 th teachers,
• 37 PhD,
• 6 doctors habilitat
• 24 public finance (out of requirements), lt3 of
  GDP (2002)
• UNDP Human development index 98 place out of 174
  countries

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Key causes of the problems

• Internal
• Conservatism in teaching methods,
• Big focus on traditional theoretical training
• Focus on knowledge, instead of skills
• Lack of team spirit
• External
• mismatch with real business needs
• Traditional perception of free education
• No demand for life-long education

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Emergency vocational training programs
Objective of the intervention

• Develop skillful versatile workforce in the short
  term
• Key institutions
• business, firms
• industry
• Ministry of Economy,
• Ministry of Education,
• Competitiveness and Productivity Center
• vocational training schools,
• Target groups
• Students
• Firms,
• teachers

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Proposed activities

• Reach Agreement with the Ministries
• Develop a combined training program, curricula
• soft skills at the institution
• Technical skills at the selected enterprises
• Training of enterprise trainers in soft skills
• Short Study visits abroad
• Visiting professors, coachers
• Benchmarking
• Licensing of the training institution
• Accreditation
• Invest in control measurement labs (one per
  sector)

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Cost estimate

• Total Cost 15 mln euro,
• 20 enterprise (customers) contribution
• Duration -5 years

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Institutions involved

• Role of Ministry of Education, Economy
• Adjust legislation, monitoring
• Other partners, donors
• NGOs,
• business associations
• - High performing teachers - practitioners

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Results indicators

• Number of trained workers 5000/year initially
• Growing up to 15000/year in 5 years
• Schools
• pilot 10, gradually involving up to 50
• 1000 teachers from the vocational schools
• 1000 enterprise trainers

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Background information Moldova

• Team members
• Gheorghe Efros, Roman Lazu, Olga Ponomariov, Ion
  Tighineanu, Alexandru Ghiduleanov, Petru Gaugas,
  Liviu Oboroc
• Republic of Moldova, Chisinau,
• CPC, www.aria.md/cpc
• State University, www.usm.md
• Registration Chamber www.registru.md
• Academy of Science www.asm.md
• Youth for Progress www.youth-progress.org
• Facilitator Maria Luisa Ferreira