School placement must be strengthened

School placement must be strengthened

New evaluation will be part of the government's continued efforts to improve school internship.

School internship supplies in several areas high quality, and the students who use the school training, generally feel well served by it. The evaluation shows "Practical training in vocational training", conducted by the Danish Evaluation Institute in the period from September 2010 to August 2011. Skolepraktik better than its reputation for Children and Education Christine Antorini will use the report's recommendations in the Government's objective to strengthen and improve the school training: "It is good the report shows that students learn a lot also in the school training, and in some areas the school training at full height with internships in companies. It is an important point, which we will use in the work to strengthen the school- the reputation of the so more students without training agreement continues in school training rather than completely fall from vocational training. " "I think that EVA's proposal to conduct trials with actual practical training centers is very interesting. It is entirely in the government's strategy to ensure internships for all young people also through more and better school internships." "The government will streamline the training guarantees and internships so that everyone can finish their training. We will make a bid for the upcoming tripartite negotiations, and here the report's recommendations also included." The study includes data collection through register data and interview within four business education. The evaluation has, among other things focus on specific targets in the organization, learning styles, management suitability requirements (EMMA) and the ongoing assessment and development of quality.

Experiments in progress

The report recommends, among other tests on the school training, including organizing, learning forms and methods and experiments with new models of interaction between school training and work experience in companies. The Ministry of Education has already launched a number of initiatives based on political agreements in the area, which is flush with EVA's recommendations in the report. As a result of the "Agreement on enhanced efforts for more internships" and "Agreement on several internships in 2011" have already been allocated a total of 20 million in 2010-2012 to experiment with strengthening the quality of school training. In addition three million kroner to attempt social and health care area. Moreover, as part of "multi-year agreement for the tertiary education in the period 2010-2012" allocated DKK 15 million for the improvement of vocational training reputation. There are initiated six projects to improve VET's reputation, and established an investigative unit, Quality Patrol. The efforts also include school training. Source: UVM