1. INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES ACTIVITY OF THE REPUBLICAN CENTRE ON VET EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT Lilia POGOLŞA, PhD, Institute of Educational Sciences, Director

2. ESTABLISHMENT. LEGAL FRAMEWORK The order nr. 835 of 17 Decembre 2008 issued by the Ministry of Education of Republic of Moldova...with the financial support of the Hifab International project "Support to the Labour Market Authorities and Vocational Education Services in working towards improving the Labour Market in Moldova“ implemented by the Ministry of Education

3. BASIC GOALS Policies development and implementation in secondary vocational education; Educational Standards development; Development and implementation of modular curricula on the specialty disciplines; Development and implementation of methodologies on career orientation guide; Monitoring the inclusion of people with SEN in vocational education

4. BASIC OUTCOMES Amendment of the draft of Education Code with the proposals for VET modernization opportunities; Elaboration of an analytical framework on VET policies and training systems; Survey on collaboration between the academic and business environment ;

5. Development of the structural sample for occupational standards in the context of adoption of the Decision of the Government on occupational standards ; Development of the conceptual methodology for occupational standards in the context of adoption of the Decision of the Government on occupational standards Development of the occupational standards for individual crafts; BASIC OUTCOMES

6. Survey on ICT inclusion into the VET sector; Curricula development on VET teacher and instructor training; Monitoring of the pilot curricula implementation for the crafts of cook, plasterer and welder; Intensification of the social dialogue and partnership between all stakeholders

7. VET SECTOR COMMON PROBLEMS Deficit of skilled workers on the labor market; Increased rate of unemployment among VET graduates; Insufficient allocations from the state budget for the VET sector in relation to the quality assurance of trained specialists; Inadequate means to cover the needs for continuous teacher training and for production workers from VET secondary institutions; Outdated legal framework for production training and missing regulation on collaboration of the VET secondary institutions and the economic agents.

8. VET SECTOR COMMON PROBLEMS Lack of occupational standards to regulate the correlation between the VET institutions and labor market requirements; Lack of educational standards and curricula on specialty disciplines; Lack of the mechanism on recognition of prior learning and certification of professional competences acquired by non-formal and informal continuous education.

9. LOOKING FORWARD Completing the Concept on reforming secondary vocational education; Improving the legal and regulatory framework on reformation of secondary vocational education; Developing the National Qualifications Framework; Further development of the occupational standards adjusted to the labor market; Public-private partnerships implementation;

10. LOOKING FORWARD Participation in the recognition and certification of skills acquired in non-formal and informal ways; Development of the educational standards for specialty disciplines; Development of modular curriculum on specialty disciplines, based on educational standards; Promotion of secondary vocational education in the society; Exploiting the financial resources for strengthening secondary vocational education.

11. INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS UNESCO-UNEVOC ETF KulturKontakt GIZ METOP Institute (Germany) National Centre for Vocational and Technical Education (Romania) Republican Institute for Vocational Education (Republic of Belarus)