The financing of the vocational education

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The financing of the vocational education
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• The Primary and the Secondary education received
  in the vocational schools and lyceum in Bulgaria
  are regulated by the Law for the popular
  education, the Law for the level of education,
  the general educational minimum and the school
  planning and the state educational demands as
  well as by the Law for the vocational education.
  The system of the vocational education includes
  the vocational orientation and the vocational
  education.

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• The vocational education aims the receiving of
  the professional
• Qualification, professional capacity, including
  regulated professions, improving the professional
  qualification, the creation of the motivation
  system for realization, the creation of the
  general culture on the basis of the
• National and universal values
• The professional orientation and the vocational
  education are completed on different professions
  and specialities, included in the List of the
  professions in the vocational education.

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• It is made on the basis of Frame Programs in
  order to achieve vocational qualification.
• For the students the programs are as followed
• 3 years after the 6-th class
• 4 years after the primary education or a class
  from the secondary education
• 6 years after the 7-th class
• 4 year after the primary education in the schools
  of art
• 1 year after the primary school or a class from
  the secondary school
• For the students after 16 years
• 1 year after the 6 class
• 1 year after a class from the secondary school or
  secondary education completed
• 4-5 years after the primary
• 2 years after the secondary education
• The minimum age of the students to enter the
  vocational education is 13 when the studies are
  in a school and 16 when it is made in another
  place.

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• The general theoretical education are followed
  by a practical education and professional
  qualification which must be at least 40 of the
  whole education. The vocational education is made
  in a educational-center of practice in the
  schools, in centers for vocational education and
  in the enterprises.

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• The National Agency for vocational education
• -elaborates and confirms criteria and procedures
  of license
• -give and take away license for vocational
  education and orientation
• -participates the educational state standards for
  receiving qualifications for different
  professions
• Participates in the elaboration of unified
  standards for the conditions, the organization
  and the content of the vocational education for
  different professions
• -proposes changes in the Law for popular
  education in the part for vocational education
• -gives the obligation to institutions to make
  research and implement them in vocational
  education and orientation
• -elaborates strategy for developing and improving
  the vocational education
• Creates and takes care for the Register of the
  centers for vocational education and centers for
  information and vocational orientation
• -approves programs for education which are out of
  the educational state standards

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• The bodies of the National Agency for vocational
  education and orientation are
• The Administrative board and its president
• The Administrative board consists of president
  and 24 members as following
• 8 representatives from the ministries
• 8 representatives of the employers
• 8 representatives of the organizations of workers
  and employees at the national level
• The Administrative board has a mandate of 4 years
  and the members and the president could be
  reelected for two terms of 4 years.
• The Administrative board gathers at least once
  every tree months.
• The President of the Administrative board is the
  President of the Agency. The commissions of
  experts, created on the proposal of the
  Administrative Board have 9 members 1
  representative from the Ministry of education and
  science, one from the Ministry of labour and
  social affairs and tree representatives from
  employer side and tree from the workers
  organizations.

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• The regional inspectorates for education belonging
  to the Ministry of education and science make
  the state policy in the field of vocational
  education in the region.
• The Ministry of labour and social affairs defines
  the conditions for the development of the
  vocational education in connection with the
  development of the labour market.
• The Ministry of health participates in the making
  of the List of professions and defines the
  chronical deseases and physical disabilities
  which are not in accordance with the vocational
  education. It regulates the conditions for the
  education and practice through the State Health
  control. The ministries in the different branches
  participate in the elaboration of the list of
  professions and the state standards for the
  different professions.

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• The municipalities participate in the elaboration
  of the policy in the field of the vocational
  education in the regions concerning
• personnel
• the vocational orientation
• changes in the Register
• distribution of the defined financial resources
  and the control of their spendings
• improving the buildings,didactic
  materials,working conditions

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• The Organizations of the workers and employees
• participate in the actualization of the state
  standards
• in the changes of the List of the professions
• define its representatives in the Administrative
  board and in the commissions of experts of the
  National Agency for vocational education
• The union branch organizations
• defend the interests of the students before the
  employers in the labor
• Relations and security conditions during the
  practice
• participate in the organization and during the
  exams for receiving a professional qualification
• define its representatives in the commissions of
  expert in the National Agency for vocational
  education

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• Financing of the vocational education and
  orientation is done as follows
• The state and municipal schools and centers for
  vocational education, centers for information and
  professional orientation and centers for
  qualification of the students are financed by
• -the State budget
• -the budget of the municipalities
• -sponsors
• -donations
• -testament
• -own outcomes
• -national and international program-other sources

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• The subsidies from the state budget and the
  budget of the municipalities assure the financial
  possibilities for
• -maintenance of the vocational education in the
  state and municipal schools
• -administrative and financial services of the
  state and municipal centers
• for information and professional orientation as
  well as centers for professional qualification
• -maintenance of the professional orientation in
  the state and municipal centers for information
  and orientation
• -maintenance of the qualification of individuals,
  which are making vocation education in centers
  for qualification

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• The state and municipal institutions in the
  system of the vocational education make a
  separate budget.
• The own resources are used for the maintenance
  and the improvement of the material
  conditions..The subsidies from the state budget
  and the municipal budget are not diminishing
  because of the own resources.
• The vocational colleges and centers for
  vocational education gather taxes
• For education of physical and juridical
  individuals.
• The state and municipal centers for information
  and professional orientation are financed by a
  supplementary activities, defined by a special
  Regulation rules.

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• The National agency for vocational education is
  financed with the resources from the state
  budget, by own resources,sponsors,donations,testam
  ents and others.The National Agency for
  vocational education gathers taxes for giving
  licenses for the vocational education and
  orientation, on the basis of regulations given by
  the Council of ministers.

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• The financing of the vocational education out of
  the state, professional standards as well as the
  practice organized in the state and municipal
  schools and centers for vocational education is
  done with finances paid by physical individuals
  on the basis of contracts.
• Practice abroad is organized by state and
  municipal schools and centers for financing by
  the school or the center with a contract with the
  foreign institution for vocational education.

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• The reforms in our country in this field are very
  slow and not always in the good direction.We need
  a national debate for defining a whole strategy
  about the vocational education and its better
  adaptation to the labor market which is one of
  the main objectives of this kind of education.

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