Education and Training, Regional System’s Guidelines Defined

Today, with the definition of the reform guidelines of the new regional system of education and vocational training, the debate of the last months on the proposals presented by the Regional Ministers of Education Caterina Miraglia and of Training Severino Nappi to the Regional School Office, Confindustria, Confcommercio, CGL, CISL, UIL, UGL, CONFAPI, SNALS, GILDA, COBAS and ANP, came to a conclusion. 

The main points of the reform, which will be now approved by the Regional Executive Board, are the following:

-         Integration among world of work, education and vocational training through the definition of educational paths that for the first time will permit, since third years of professional schools, to achieve a professional qualification that is immediately useful in the job market and acknowledged at European level;

-         Institution of a regional list of professional figures, and subsequent identification of the occupational needs of the local job market through monitoring activities and discussion among schools, social parties and firms, coordinated by the Region;

-         Regional planning of course offerings;

-         Review of the accreditation system of Educational Bodies, in order to reward the educational paths that guarantee real employment;

-         Identification of requisites and characteristics of VET (Vocational Education and Training) paths, and of the procedures for the recognition of credits in the citizen’s academic transcripts;

-         Activation of a continuing monitoring and evaluation system for the results achieved.

The subsequent executive measures of the guidelines will be realised within a path that will be shared with the social parties.

The approval in Campania of the reform guidelines of the regional education and vocational training system takes place within few days from the institution of the national catalogue of professional qualifications.

“The educational and vocational training paths – the Regional Minister Miraglia underlined – will extend the educational offerings of the schools of Regione Campania. Thanks to the VETs, our children will have the possibility to choose a course that, after three years, will allow them to be included in the world of work with a qualification, at the same time giving them the possibility to continue their studies”, the Regional Minister added.

"Also with regards to the axis Education-Training-Work – the Regional Minister Nappi declared – we begin to make up for the delay accrued. The goal remains to finally create a system in which education creates real employment. Thanks to the reform, also Campania will finally access the national resources supporting education and vocational training”, Nappi concluded.