On February 2, 2021, The Council of Ministers has adopted an act that introduces, inter alia, a system for monitoring educational and professional careers of secondary school graduates.
In February 2021, the Minister of Education and Science announced the third forecast of the demand for employees in the national and regional labour markets for the professions taught in vocational education.
Career guidance for adults helps to motivate adults to train and to help address the challenges brought about by rapidly changing skill needs. Such services are particularly important amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, as many adults have lost jobs and require assistance navigating their career options in the changed labour market.
The Council of Ministers adopted the "Integrated Skills Strategy 2030 (detailed part)" (Zintegrowana Strategia Umiejętności. Część szczegółowa) by resolution No. 195/2020 of December 28, 2020. Integrated Skills Strategy 2030 has the status of a public policy and in accordance with the provisions of the amended Act of 15 July 2020 on the principles of development policy, it defines the basic conditions, goals and directions of the country's development in the social, economic and spatial dimensions of a given field or area, which result directly from the country's medium-term development strategy, i.e. the Strategy for Responsible Development.
The proposed regulation is a response to the request of the Minister of Development, Labour and Technology regarding the introduction of new professions to the education system
Forecasts on the skills needs for individual European Union countries, including Poland, were published on the Cedefop website. The forecast is for the period of 2019-2030.
The skills that a person develops in the course of life depend on many factors. One of them is the functioning of the education and learning system in a given country. Education, training and labour market policies should respond to the needs of each country's economies and societies.
Cedefop announced the results of the #CedefopPhotoAward 2020 competition. The winners were students of vocational schools from Poland, Greece, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.