We invite all those interested in the development of vocational education and training in Ukraine to an open online webinar «Improving the system of teacher training for the vocational education of Ukraine» as part of a global initiative from the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES).
The webinar will be held on 20 September at 16:00 by the Vice-Rector in Scientific Work of UEPA Prof. Oleksandr KUPRIYANOV.
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Ukraine has an extended system of vocational education, which trains specialists for all branches of the economy. Despite a progress in the laboratory equipment of vocational schools in the years before the invasion of Ukraine by the russian federation, the network of vocational schools continued to decrease and the level of training of graduates was insufficient. The pandemic and especially the war, with a significant proportion of future workers learning remotely, aggravated the problems of training quality.
In Ukraine, teachers and masters for vocational schools are trained at universities at the specialty of Professional Education, which is divided into specializations. The problem of training and retraining of teachers for vocational schools is quite acute, besides, this profession is not prestigious.
The Ministry of Education and Science are making significant efforts to solve problems related to the quality of future vocational education teachers. These actions are primarily aimed at raising the prestige of working professions. An important direction is also the professional development of vocational school teachers and fill up of vocational schools with qualified ambitious teachers.
For this purpose, a resource of open distance courses for different professions has been created, IT literacy of vocational teachers is being improved, a platform for collaboration between vocational schools and future teachers has been created, and partner infrastructures are being implemented.
The public union «Association of vocational and life-long education development» has begun to work. Ukraine's experience in improving the system of teacher training for vocational education could be useful for other countries.
