Indicator
Reducing skills imbalances
Implemented
Not Implemented
Not Applicable
| Level | ALB | BIH | KOS | MNE | MKD | SRB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surveys on the participation of employees in continuing training and education. | ||||||
| There is an institutional framework in place for coordinating activities between different Ministries and State agencies and social partners to address skills mismatch. | ||||||
| Recent activities and reforms to improve the quality of vocational education and training have been implemented. *Partly implemented | ||||||
| Curricula of vocational education and training programmes and higher education systems updated on the basis of consultation with a wide range of actors, including sector associations (or sector skills councils if they exist), employer associations, trade unions, and employers (at least half of the actors listed). | ||||||
| Measures are in place to promote workplace-based learning through internships or other forms of ALMPs to increase skills level of jobseekers are in place. *There is weak implementation of measures | ||||||
| Basic elements of a career guidance system is operational (at least for 2 of the following options: at secondary schools, in vocational schools and higher education, for employed, for unemployed, other). *Only in secondary schools | ||||||
| A dual-type of vocational training system, combining workplace related and school-based learning is in place. | ||||||
| Key strategies and action plans addressing adult learning framework are in place. | ||||||
| A system of skills validation and certification is in place or is being developed. | ||||||
| Skills gap analysis takes external/innovative sources taken into account and use at least 3 different methods and sources (e.g. big data from job vacancy websites), tracer studies of graduates, surveys among employers, sector studies, skills forecasting or sector foresight, assessing labour shortages, other). *Slight progress has been made |
Note that for Bosnia and Herzegovina, “State” stands for the state level, while “FBiH” stands for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and “RS” stands for Republika Srpska - the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Note that the presented scoring criteria system is not a full representation of the scoring methodology used to determine the score for an indicator. For more information, see the Methodology section.