Vocational education in Poland in the early 21st century

Abstract

The group of people who realize that a strong economy (providing decent level of existence) relies on a well-organized system of professional training, is increasing slowly but continuously. Therefore, people have been more often raising their voice to promote the belief that the Polish education system should follow the requirements of the labour market. Every person – regardless of their common path of professional preparation – in order to be able to exist in the labour market, should in the end become the subject of vocational education. Amendments to the Act of 19 August 2011 have introduced a mechanism which speeds up the process of adjusting vocational education to labour market requirements. However, these changes have been approved in a hasty manner and without a broad dialogue with the society. Therefore, they are a subject of doubt rather than hope for making vocational education in Poland more rational.