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Continuing vocational training (isced level 4)
Structure, duration and objective
Continuing vocational training includes all vocational training and further training activities organised outside the formal initial vocational training and education system.
The purpose of continuing vocational training is to maintain, refresh, upgrade and modernise the job skills of persons seeking employment and to help workers interested in career development.
Continuing vocational training in Greece is provided by a plethora of bodies which focus on specific population groups and are supervised by various Ministries. The existing institutional framework focuses on four categories:
- Training of the unemployed
- Training of private-sector workers
- Training of wider public sector workers
- Training of socially disadvantaged groups
The vocational training programmes are short-term and the number of hours of tuition depends on the subject, the content of the curriculum and the group to whom the programme is addressed.
Agencies - Educational curricula
In Greece, the public and private sector agencies which organise continuing vocational training programmes are the Vocational Training Centres (KEKs).
The KEKs provide continuing vocational training services and are accredited by the National Centre for the Accreditation of Vocational Training Structures and Accompanying Support Services (EKEPIS).
The KEKs organise informal continuing training programmes with a view to combining training and employment; programmes to combat social exclusion for the unemployed, the self-employed and special groups; and in-house training programmes.
The continuing vocational training programmes include theoretical training and practical exercises in firms; the trainees are subsidised for the duration of the programme.
Examinations - Qualifications acquired
The KEKs implement trainee assessment systems on the basis of the training curriculum; on successful completion of their courses the trainees receive an Attendance Certificate.
The programmes focus in particular on improving job opportunities for trainees.
Private Colleges
Colleges are private training institutions for Lyceum leavers; courses last from one to four years, depending on the level of training they provide. These colleges are not subject to educational or other supervision by the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs. Some of these colleges collaborate with foreign Universities with a view to conferring university-level degrees. However, these degrees are not recognised by the Inter-University Centre for the Recognition of Foreign Qualifications
(DIKATSA) as equivalent to those conferred by the Greek public universities and Technical Educational Institutes, because under the Greek Constitution it is not permitted to establish or operate private Universities or private Technological Educational Institutes.
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