MARKET RELEVANT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON STANDARDIZATION IN BULGARIA - NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS
Author: Chief Assist. Prof. Dr. Yanislav Zhelev; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Evgeniya Nikolova; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mariya Monova-Zheleva (Burgas Free University)
Keywords: Vocational education and training /VET/, Continuing vocational education and training /C-VET/, e-learning, virtual educational environment /VLE/, Erasmus plus.
In this paper are briefly presented the main results from a research aiming to identify the Bulgarian labor market needs and requirements regarding the provision of the easily accessible tailored education and training related to standardization (especially standards ISO/IEC 27000 and ISO 31000). The research has been conducted in the framework of the international project �International Standards training in VET for promotion of market relevant education� /ISTRA/ � 2016-1-BG01-KA202-023738, which is funded by the EC under the Erasmus+ programme. Section 1 presents the main ISTRA concept for VET in standardization. In Section 2 are described the methodology, scope of the survey, and the used tools. The survey conducted in Bulgaria was attended by 277 respondents a total. From them 84 trainers and 193 are trainees. The selection procedures and profile of the respondents are briefly presented in Section 3. In the last section some conclusions are described.