Primena koncepta deficita znanja i veština u politici i planiranju obrazovanja - slučaj jedne tranzicione ekonomije
Application of the concept: knowledge and skills deficit in education policy and planning - the case of a transitional economy

Summary/Abstract: The basic research problem in this paper is the reliability of knowledge and skills needs assessment provided by employers in transitional economies and the relevance of this assessment to educational policy and planning. Trends in employment and projected deficit of labour force have been analysed against the groups of occupations and the levels of qualification in 53 enterprises from the field of processing industry in Serbia. Analysis results show that knowledge and skills needs assessments provided by employers is pretty unreliable in transitional economies. The author concludes that educational policy cannot only be based on the identifications concept of local labour force deficit, knowledge and skills, but that at least two aditional factors need to be taken into account: a) employment trends regarding adquate profiles and knowldgw and skills requirements by the leading world companies in the specific fileds of work and b) active role of the education system in projection and development of the needs for knowledge and skills.

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