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Vocational Education and Training for the 21st Century
08/05/1998
The following is a Speech by the Minister of Education and National Culture, the Hon. Evarist Bartolo, during the launching of the White Paper for Vocational Education and Training.
"If Malta is to survive and thrive in the 21st century it must succeed in a highly competitive global market. We cannot modernise and restructure our economy without modernising and restructuring our education system.
This White Paper proposes a framework for the setting up of a Vocational College and College Schools to consolidate vocational training in all its aspects and reduce duplication. This system would aim to provide a supply of human resources possessing the basic skills needed at craft and technician levels, which would meet the needs of our industry.
The Management of this system for vocational education and training is to be the responsibility of all the parties concerned through the setting up of a Malta Council for Vocational Qualifications. Therefore industry, commercial and services enterprises, are expected to be involved more adequately in the curriculum development and the provision of vocational education and training. This will improve knowledge about industrial and other career related skills requirement and thus justifying the funding of this venture.
This system of vocational education and training is to function in such a manner, that while satisfying the needs of our economy, it will offer opportunities to our citizens, both young and older, to acquire personal development, education and training, to be able to contribute fully and effectively towards a strong national economy, without prejudice towards gender, social status or personal conditions.
This system is expected to:
Offer relevant vocational training in conjunction with industrial, commercial and services enterprises; | |
Reduce skills mismatch by facilitating mobility of labour from economically contracting to expanding sectors; | |
Operate in close cooperation with university; | |
Promote female participation in vocation education and training, to increase the female presence in the workforce; | |
Promote entrepreneurial skills in order to encourage business startups; | |
Ensure that persons with special needs will be given equal opportunity to vocational education and training, to fulfill the principle of inclusion, which is theirs by right; | |
Operate in such a manner as to be accessible to all, not least to those who wish to have a "second chance" or a "new start". |
Offer relevant vocational training in conjunction with industrial, commercial and services enterprises; | |
Reduce skills mismatch by facilitating mobility of labour from economically contracting to expanding sectors; | |
Operate in close cooperation with university; | |
Promote female participation in vocation education and training, to increase the female presence in the workforce; | |
Promote entrepreneurial skills in order to encourage business startups; | |
Ensure that persons with special needs will be given equal opportunity to vocational education and training, to fulfill the principle of inclusion, which is theirs by right; | |
Operate in such a manner as to be accessible to all, not least to those who wish to have a "second chance" or a "new start". |
Offer relevant vocational training in conjunction with industrial, commercial and services enterprises; | |
Reduce skills mismatch by facilitating mobility of labour from economically contracting to expanding sectors; | |
Operate in close cooperation with university; | |
Promote female participation in vocation education and training, to increase the female presence in the workforce; | |
Promote entrepreneurial skills in order to encourage business startups; | |
Ensure that persons with special needs will be given equal opportunity to vocational education and training, to fulfill the principle of inclusion, which is theirs by right; | |
Operate in such a manner as to be accessible to all, not least to those who wish to have a "second chance" or a "new start". |
Offer relevant vocational training in conjunction with industrial, commercial and services enterprises; | |
Reduce skills mismatch by facilitating mobility of labour from economically contracting to expanding sectors; | |
Operate in close cooperation with university; | |
Promote female participation in vocation education and training, to increase the female presence in the workforce; | |
Promote entrepreneurial skills in order to encourage business startups; | |
Ensure that persons with special needs will be given equal opportunity to vocational education and training, to fulfill the principle of inclusion, which is theirs by right; | |
Operate in such a manner as to be accessible to all, not least to those who wish to have a "second chance" or a "new start". |
A series of consultation meeting will be held in the coming five weeks with all interested parties.
All the stake holders in our economy and education are being asked to give their views on these proposals included in the White Paper. They have up to June 20 to send in their views."
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