KSV/015
Appui à la Réforme de la Formation professionnelle au Kosovo

Le projet soutient le Ministère de l'Education, des Sciences et de la Technologie (MEST) du Kosovo dans son effort à contribuer à la modernisation du système d’éducation par des réformes dans le domaine de la formation professionnelle. 

Le projet se concentre sur la mise en place de deux Centres de Compétence (CdC), l'un pour les services de santé à Ferizaj et l'autre pour l’économie et le commerce à Prizren. Le projet prévoit non seulement la construction et de l'équipement des deux CdCs, mais aussi le développement de curricula et la formation des formateurs incluant le renforcement des capacités du personnel des CdCs, en tenant compte des profils professionnels définis et des besoins des deux secteurs.

Le but principal des CdCs sera de fournir la formation professionnelle initiale au niveau secondaire supérieur. En outre, les CdCs travailleront en étroite collaboration avec les sociétés privées, dans leurs secteurs respectifs, pour développer la formation pratique et l’apprentissage en milieu de travail pour les étudiants qui suivent une formation professionnelle, et pour offrir aux entreprises des formations internes et des formations continues.

Ces deux CdCs, ainsi que les cinq autres centres prévus dans le programme du MEST, constitueront des projets "pilotes" au sein de la réforme du secteur de la formation professionnelle.

Dernières nouvelles

• Kosovo – A Business Model for the Centres of Competence in Ferizaj and Prizren

  Publié le 2 Juin 2017    Par Isabelle Mousset and Daniele Cristian Passalacqua   

  In its constant effort to increase the quality of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and to support the Centres of Competence (CoCs) in Ferizaj and in Prizren in becoming self-sustainable, Project KSV/015 has designed a  new Business Model development plan. The plan comprises three main components: (1) the establishment of an Industrial Liaison and Career Guidance Unit; (2) the establishment of a Service Provision Unit; and (3) the creation of an Information Systems and Data Management Unit. The three components, currently under implementation, will stimulate relations with respective industries, thus helping the schools’ endeavours towards independent income generation and aligning their VET offer with internal labour market research.

  The Project has all the adequate and sophisticated expertise necessary to gradually roll out the Business Model and assure successful implementation of such an innovative component. The Industrial Liaison and Information Systems and Data Management Units are the two main pillars, which are being developed by the Project. For the Industrial Liaison, we are following a four-step plan to deploy the unit:

  1. Designing the work-processes between the school, the students and the organisational partners and the structure and expected outcomes of the Industrial Liaison Unit; 
  2. Deploying the Industrial Body comprised of key stakeholders from the business sector;
  3. Developing internal capacities to coordinate future activities for the development of the Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and Skills and Knowledge Needs Assessment (SKNA) as a long-term sustainable solution; and
  4. Designing and deploying a strategy that will facilitate the creation of partnerships based on common areas of interest identified by the CoCs and the public and private entities related to the teaching profiles.

  Furthermore, the Project has already conducted a requirement analysis and mapping of currently available digital resources in Kosovo in order to obtain a clearer picture of the situation and prevent implementation of duplicate platforms. The Project is also actively cooperating with the European Training Foundation (ETF) for the purpose of integrating the ETF’s digital tracer studies in the LuxDev solution, and hence developing a fully comprehensive Information System and Data Management model.

  Regarding the Career Guidance component of the Business Model, the Project is currently working on its implementation in the CoCs as well as on the national level. Along with support in developing the first Level 5 qualification for Career Guidance Counsellors in Kosovo, which will be offered in CoC Prizren, this component has also become a national priority of the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of Kosovo. While the development of the component is being done in cooperation with the Office for Life-Long Learning of the Ministry, the digitalisation of the component is being carried out in partnership with a renowned international specialised company that will play an important role in the sustainability and maintenance of the Information System component. This activity will lead to a fully digitalised and scientifically-approved survey which will be taken by all pre-university students in order to determine their future career orientation.

  The task of creating the necessary hardware infrastructure for the establishment and implementation of the new Business Model in the CoCs has advanced steadily. At this point of time the Project is dedicating its efforts in the development of all required soft facilities. 

  The high-quality of VET reached by the CoCs along with the new Business Model concept is slowly but surely becoming a desired approach among stakeholders and proving to be the model which could be replicated throughout the VET system in Kosovo (especially for those VET institutions selected by MEST as National Level Provider). This approach has earned the Project additional trust and a leading role among development cooperation missions which are present in Kosovo by many stakeholders, including the Project’s counterpart, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The development of the Business Model will certainly have a massive impact in terms of COCs' capacities to create, expand, and maintain relations with the relevant industries.

  

  Picture 1: The new offices for the Business Model have been designed and equipped applying architectural solutions aiming to optimisation of space, environmental impact and functionality. 

  

  Picture 2: Students of the Optical Technician profile during practical training. The new Business Model will encourage relations with companies, such as Almakos, and ease the transition of CoC students into the labour market.

• Kosovo - Training needs analysis

  Publié le 22 Janvier 2016    Par Fellanza Abdullahu   

  The project is conducting a training needs analysis (TNA) that will be finalised in February 2016 with the aim of promoting VET in line with labour market needs, gathering data for evidence-based decision-making. This effort, one of several such donor-funded initiatives in the sector of Education, should lead to crucial orientations supporting the CoCs in the perspective of sustainability. For instance, the diversification of the CoCs’ educational offer through short courses and post-secondary programmes will gain further impulse. These should not only allow the CoCs matching their purpose as multifunctional Centres offering flexible training to different target groups, but also generating income.

  In February 2016 the Riinvest Institute and Kosovo Chamber of Commerce, after a sophisticated process of data collection and analysis, in collaboration with LuxDev, private sector representatives and local stakeholders, will deliver the final report of the TNA. At the end of the study, clear overviews should be available of: effective (solvent) VET demand in selected sectors and potential corresponding financing sources; VET needs and potential financing sources; and market segmentation for each CoC describing the nexus Client/Service/Technology. The TNA will be an important point of reference and input for all initiatives oriented towards VET and Labour market and implementing agencies.

  

  

• Kosovo - Start of the academic year 2015/16

  Publié le 22 Janvier 2016    Par Fellanza Abdullahu   

  With the beginning of September 2015, the new academic year got started. For the first time in CoC Ferizaj, students are enrolled across all three grades of initial VET programmes, and as it happens, 494 youngsters follow their educational paths in eight different Health Care profiles. 120 of them are making their first steps in five of the offered programmes. In CoC Prizren, 299 students, including the new second generation adding up to 195 registrations, are preparing themselves for Economy, Trade, and Travel and Tourism. These three sectors cover in total seven different profiles.

  According to the objective of making young people ready for the labour market, hands-on training in the CoCs and in labour providing institutions will hallmark the students' learning process. For practical training, both CoCs are well-equipped. For professional practice, the Centres rely on partnership agreements. While CoC Ferizaj concluded to date a multitude of collaborations with private and public institutions, CoC Prizren successfully formalised its nine agreements this year. Finally, it should be noted that both CoCs will benefit from some degree of continuity, since the contracts of teaching staff members have been extended.

  

  

• Kosovo - A sector approach for sustainable Vocational Education and Training (VET)

  Publié le 26 Mai 2015    Par Patrick Fischbach   

  To improve the conditions for long-term quality education in Kosovo, and to address some major challenges surrounding the sustainability of Project KSV/015, three workshops on national and local (Centre of Competence) level were held in February of this year. On the agenda: the strategic (re-)orientation of the CoCs in Ferizaj and Prizren and the national VET system in general. The workshop on national level was actually a kick-off meeting of a working group (WG) on policy challenges. The latter, through sub-WGs, is for instance currently addressing public financing of the VET sector and the involvement of social partners in VET.

  This leads us to the Academy on Financing Skills Development which was organised in March 2015, shortly after the above-mentioned workshops, by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Turin. The project facilitated the participation of a delegation from Kosovo. Six people from the Ministry of Education, the Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education (AVETAE), the CoCs and the project team itself left for Italy where they benefited from a broad programme including for instance the topic of sector funds as well as the importance of social dialogue and the involvement of social partners (trade unions and employers).

  Prizren Centre of Competence Deputy Director for Business Relations and Income Generation at the ILO Skills Academy (source ILO)

  The result of these developments is that one of the sub-WGs on policy challenges works on a sector approach with the commitment of all stakeholders, firstly through pilot initiatives in two sectors: Health Care (related to the CoC in Ferizaj), and Tourism (related to the CoC in Prizren). This sub-WG, mainly existing of the participants in the workshop on Financing Skills Development in Turin, will develop a pilot programme for arranging skills development including financing of this skills development on sector level, mainly related to a region. Lux-Development is ready to support such an approach as one of the main measures to set up sustainable ways of running VET as well as the CoCs in Ferizaj and Prizren in particular.

• Kosovo - Practical training at Centre of Competence in Ferizaj

  Publié le 2 Février 2015    Par Pascal Rossignol   

  In Kosovo, a high priority is conferred to skills development. In that perspective, professional practice forms an integral as well as essential part of the curricula in Ferizaj. So far, formal agreements and informal arrangements between the Centre of Competence (CoC) and over a dozen partners, twelve companies and two public hospitals, were concluded in order to strengthen technical skills among students. Restraining from a disadvantageous balance that would put too much emphasis on theoretical knowledge, the CoC wishes to hone capabilities of coping with practical issues because this will ease the transition of students towards employment at a later stage.

  All eight health care profiles are covered by practical training: assistant of audiometry, pharmacy technician, assistant of orthopaedics, orthotics & prosthetics technician, community health care assistant, ophthalmic laboratory technician / optician, food safety and nutrition assistant and dental technician. It is actually foreseen to annually increase the time spent by students on professional training. Thus, hours in professional environments will increase from 20 % in grade 10 to 40 % in grade 11, and 50 % in grade 12. It should also be noted that in the CoC workshops, state-of-the-art furniture and equipment are at the disposal of the enrolled students, further enhancing their practical learning conditions.