Secondary Vocational Education – A Step Towards Dual Education

The quality of practical training conducted at business entities represents one of the key instruments through which businesses secure future generations of skilled labor. In this way, dual-organized vocational education within the vocational education system plays an important role in meeting the needs of businesses for qualified workers, as well as helping in the social and professional integration of young people. To achieve these goals, the decisive factor is the quality of practical training carried out at business entities and attended by future professionals as part of their education.

The cooperation between the two places of learning is an important factor in ensuring quality in this process. The partnership between secondary vocational/technical schools and business entities involved in vocational education is the key to ensuring satisfied and successful stakeholders: students/parents, educational institutions, and businesses.

The online presentation “A Step Towards Dual Education” and the database “Two Places of Learning” of existing partnerships between educational institutions and business entities offering workplace learning in the Zenica-Doboj Canton (ZDK) aim to make information about these processes publicly available.

In this regard, below are links through which it is possible to obtain the most important information on secondary vocational education in the Zenica-Doboj Canton, as follows:

1. Database of secondary vocational and technical schools in ZDK with the names of qualifications/professions;

2. Database of business entities where practical training for secondary vocational and technical schools in ZDK is conducted;

3. Law on Secondary Schools in ZDK (“Official Gazette of ZDK”, No. 09/17);

4. Rulebook on Determining Conditions for Conducting Practical Training Outside the School in ZDK (“Official Gazette of ZDK”, No. 03/19);

5. Cooperation Agreement between the educational institution and business entities;

6. Agreement on Conducting Practical Training between the educational institution, the business entity, and the student/parent/guardian;

7. Rulebook on Conducting Holiday Internships in Technical and Related Schools and Vocational Schools in ZDK (“Official Gazette of ZDK”, No. 03/19);

8. Analysis of federal regulations applicable to practical training and holiday internships for students;

9. Publication “Practical Training and Cooperation Between Learning Places – Examples from Practice”;

10. Presentation of good practice examples of cooperation between two places of learning in ZDK.

The creation of the online presentation “A Step Towards Dual Education” and the database “Two Places of Learning” of existing partnerships between educational institutions and business entities offering workplace learning in ZDK is part of the project “Expansion of the EBRD’s Private Sector Youth Initiative (PSYI) to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Phase 2 Zenica-Doboj Canton,” implemented by the Chamber of Commerce of the Zenica-Doboj Canton in cooperation with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and supported by the TaiwanBusiness – EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund.