Ein Forschungsprojekt der European Training Foundation (ETF) hat aufgezeigt, dass die berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung des westlichen Balkans, der Türkei und Israels Veränderung bedarf, um Armut und soziale Ausgrenzung für marginalisierte Gruppen zu bekämpfen.
New facts on social exclusion in Western Balkans, Turkey and Israel
A European Training Foundation (ETF) research project has revealed how approaches to vocational education and training (VET) in the Western Balkans, Turkey and Israel need to change to combat poverty and social exclusion for marginalised groups.
The project, on which the ETF worked with the researchers from the London School of Economics, is an extensive survey of VET. Its findings are based on an unprecedented number of in-depth interviews and questionnaires with all the main actors in the field.
Researchers conducted 95 interviews with key decision makers in VET and social inclusion across all nine countries and 274 interviews with directors, school leaders and teachers in 27 vocational schools.
They also organised 21 focus groups and surveyed 745 teachers and 2,751 students. For example in Turkey, 90 teachers and 300 students answered a series of searching questions about their attitudes to school and work.
Research has revealed a number of interesting figures. In Turkey for example, dropout rates in vocational and technical high schools are higher for both male and female students than in regular secondary schools and the average number of students per class is not only above the limit of 30 advised by the education ministry, but is also higher in VET classrooms than in other schools.
In Serbia, researchers detected a shift towards four-year vocational education courses – an increase of 4% in the period 2001-06, while the share of three-year courses fell by about 4%. Two-thirds of the Serbian teachers surveyed thought that lack of motivation is their biggest problem, while three-fifths saw discipline as a major issue.
Only one-fifth of students surveyed in Serbia considered that they have much chance of finding a job immediately upon graduation, while another fifth thought they would probably find a job within six months. In Kosovo 22% of students expected that it would take longer than a year to find work.