Improving the quality of vocational training and more training places

Improving the quality of vocational training and more training places

The quality, especially in vocational education should be up. It must be the continuation of money and a new training committee to help ensure. The Committee should look at how the internship warranty can become a reality.

The Government aims to improve the quality of vocational training, strengthen education guarantees and placements for young people who want to start a business.

This goal is reflected in the draft next year's budget. Here are earmarked a total of 800 million kroner to go to various educational initiatives such as solutions to the placement area.

"It is vital that we find a solution to the problem internship and sharpens training warranty. Therefore, running the government's efforts in the two tracks. First, we reduce a training committee to find solutions in cooperation with the social partners and partly continues in our funds in particular should go to strengthening the quality of education, "says Christine Antorini, Children and Education.

She emphasizes that the government, despite the economic situation have chosen to prioritize vocational training.

Training committee will look at how we can find lasting solutions to practical training area and how school apprenticeship scheme can be more flexible. The Committee will also look at how schools can strengthen the work of finding internships, so it can result in several training contracts. The first recommendations will be presented later in the fall, so they can be included in the budget negotiations for 2013.

The pupils' basic literacy and numeracy has proved crucial to the young people coming on after primary school and complete a youth education. The government's education priorities in the budget proposal for 2013 should thus be seen in the context of the upcoming primary form and the Ministerial Committee for secondary schools.

The government's focus on vocational education also means that in the new year will come up with concrete proposals on how the quality of vocational training to enhance and support the Government's education policy objectives.

In the budget proposal for 2013, the total amount allocated 30.4 billion kroner in 2013 to children and education.

Source: UVM