IPA Component IV - Human Resources Development - European Union Program for Croatia
Main project partner
This project is implemented by
a SQA-led consortium
Development of VET
qualifications and
standards in Germany
(conclusions towards
Croatia)
Jurgen Weiss
Team leader
Project office: Lastovska 23, 1000 Zagreb, Tel: + 385 1 62 74 681
Initiative for development or up-dating
Ferderal line ministries
Ministries of the Länder
Federal Institute for VET
Employer organisations
Trade unions
350 VET qualifications (training occupations)for initial VET
Planed to group into 80 – 100 Basic qualification for intial
VET
Criteria
 Timely unlimited demand on these qualifications not pending on single
companies
 VET for qualified work within a broad sector with personal responsibilities
 Oriented on long term work, not limited by age
 Broad based general VET
 Possibility to develop a VET standard
 Satisfactory differentiation to other VET qualifications
 Opportunity to define the objectives of the VET qualification
 Opportunity to define the objectives of the VET qualification
 Basics for continuing VET and career progression (LLL)
 Acquisition of competencies in application knowledge and skills for
solving task
Method of analyses of work activities (Bloy’s Cross)
How many workers
Many – often:
Many – seldom:
Few – seldom:
Few – often:
How often?
many
often
few
seldom
Intial VET
Further Education in CVET
Additional qualification
Specialisation
Lifelong Employability
Skilled worker as entrepreneur of its own workforce
What kind of skilled worker is needed to be lifelong employable?
Narrow profiled worker
 Performs single work operations
and types of work activities
 Has basic and specific knowledge
and skills, strictly limited to those
work operations and activities
Broad profiled worker
 Solves standard, and, if necessary, nonstandard tasks in scope of his enlarged
profession
 Has a wide base of knowledge and
expertise based on this knowledge
 Has expertise in field of his
profession
 Has broad professional, functional,
social and personal competence
 Prepared for a specific work task
 Prepared for a wide range of tasks
5
1. Analyses of situation
 Collection of dana on technical, economic and social developments
 Description of of the situaion in the world of work and the world
of training
 Draw conlusions
2. Case studies
 Analyses of typical work places
 Amendement of conclusions
 Provosion of dana bases for analyses of work processes
3. Analyses of work activities
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Elabaration of questionnaire
Reginonal and sectoral inquiries
Proceesing of data
Definition requirements of to the training occupation (list of
occupational funktions)
4. Development of a draft Standard (AO)
 Designation of the training occupation & duration of the training
 Field of activities
 Main occupational skills
 Structering of contents and allocation of learning hours
 Definition of requirements for the exams
Structur of VET qualification
Designation of occupation
• Information technology and telecommunications system
electronics technician (m/f)
(IT system electronics technician (m/f))
Duration of traineeship
• 3 years
The venues for training delivery are the training company and
the vocational school
Field of activity
 IT system electronics technicians (m/f) plan and install
information technology and telecommunications systems,
including the relevant equipment, components and
networks. They install the power supply and the system and
commission the system. They produce customized solutions
by modifying hardware and software. They analyse faults and
rectify malfunctions.
 Typical areas in which electronics technicians work include
computer systems, fixed networks, radio networks, terminals
and security systems.
 IT system electronics technicians qualify as skilled electrical
technicians under accident prevention regulations.
Occupational skills
IT system electronics technicians
• inform and advise customers on possible uses of information technology
and telecommunications equipment and systems;
• install and configure information technology and telecommunications
equipment and systems;
• install power supplies and test electrical safety measures;
• install networks and wireless transmission systems;
• set up information technology and telecommunications equipment taking
into account ergonomic considerations;
• carry out maintenance work on information technology and
telecommunications equipment and systems;
• use expert and diagnostic systems to locate and rectify faults;
• instruct users on operating the systems;
• invoice customers for services provided.
1. Information
6. Evaluation
2. Planning
Task solving process to be
applied by the skilled worker
in the work process
5. Control
3. Decision
4. Execution
11
Learning areas VET School
Total
1st year
2nd year
3rdyear
1
Company and its environment
20
20
2
Business processes and organisation
40
40
3
Sources of information and working techniques
40
40
4
Simple IT systems
120
120
5
Professional English
60
20
20
20
6
Develop and use application systems
160
40
40
80
7
IT network systems
180
40
140
8
Market & costumer relations
60
40
9
Public nets and services
40
40
10
Service for It Systems
120
120
11
Accountancy & controlling
40
40
880
320
280
20
280
IT system electronics technician
year
Special qualifications
•Professional tasks in different
33 application fields:
Computer systems
Telephone network
3
Radio network
Basic qualifications
Receiving devices
Security systems
2
•Maintenance
• Training company
•Service
• Work processes
•IT-techniques
• Work and techniques
•Installation
1
organization
•ICT products and markets
•Systems design and maintenance
Ukrainian and German Project «Support of Ukrainian VET reforms»
Example: IT occupations
Progression
Employment
IT System
electronics
technician
IT Support
specialist
IT Specialist for
• application
development
• system
integration
Skilled worker for IT
IT
officer
Employment
Structur of Qualifications
Master of
Engineering
Cert. IT
Technical Engeneer
Cert. IT
Business Engeneer
Professionals
-strategic-
Option
Bachelor of
Engineering
Cert. IT
Business
Manager
Cert. IT
Systems
Manager
Cert. IT
Business
Consultant
Cert. IT
marketing
Manager
5. Admninistrators
1. Software
developers
3. Solution
developers
2. Coordinators
IT Project coordinator
IT system analyst
IT configuration coord.
IT System devekoper IT Quality management
Software developer
coordinator
Database devekoper
IT Test coordinator
User Interface developer
Technical writer
Multimedia Developer
Professionals
-operativ-
Specialist
Network administrator
IT systems administrator
Data base administrator
Web administrator
Business systems administrator
IT service advisor
IT Trainer
IT Product coord.
Component technician
IT Sales Advisor
Industrial IT systtem
6. Advisors
Business system advisor
Marketing developer
Logistic developer
Knowledge management
systems developer
IT Security coordinator
Network developer
4. Technician
Technician
Securuity technician
Job returnees
Others
External exam
IT systems electronic
technician
IT support
specialist
IT specialist for software
aplication or systems integration
IT officer
Skilled workers
Structure of IT Qualifications
Employment with supplyers/providers & users of IT
NQF Level 7
4 professional profiles (strategic level)
NQF level 6
4 professional profiles (operative level)
NQF Level 5
28 specialist profiles
NQF Level 4
IT systems electronic
technician
IT support
specialist
IT specialist for software
aplication or systems integration
IT officer
Progression scheme in construction qualifications in Germany
Final examine for three years VET students
Employment
VET
СпециалС
on construction finishing
Occupations (tiller, paperhanger,
painter, floor recliner, etc.)
Final for two years / intermediate examine for three
years VET students
General VET in occupational
field of construction finishing
works
3rd year
Employment
2d year
Intermediate exams
Basic VET for the construction
sector
1st year
Returnees
Ukrainian and German Project «Support of Ukrainian VET reforms»
Examination and qualification attestation
Intermediate examine (15% from a mark)
Tasks that refer to practical work (180 min.)
Tasks 1, 2, 3 are integrated into complex,
completed task, general and special
contents on basic and special qualifications
Task 4
On economical and
social matters
Examination and qualification attestation
Final examination (85% from a mark)
Part А (50%)
Part B (50%)
Project
Client’s order
and documentation
35 – 70 h.
Project
presentation
and interviewing
60 min.
Complex tasks
I and II, integrated
basic and special
qualifications
Economical
and social
questions
50%
50%
80%
20%