Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

Designing special vocational training courses for school dropouts: the case of Greece

Stamatis Paleocrassas, Panayiotis Rousseas, Vassilia Vretakou

International Journal of Vocational Education and Training,

Vol 5, No 2, PP. 57-64, Fall 1997

Paper

English

English

Recent findings of a survey type research showed that each year about 15,000 students drop out of lower secondary education schools, before completing compulsory education. Compulsory education in Greece does not contain a vocational training component and, consequently, these young people are inducted into the world of work without employable skills. The Organisation for Vocational Education and Training commissioned a study to identify the training needs of school dropouts, necessary for the design of special training courses for them..

This paper presents some of the findings of the study and lays out the basic framework, which may be used to conceptualize the design of special training courses addressing the needs of school dropouts

http://www.pi-schools.gr/programs/par/drop_courses.htm

Dimitris Alimisis

ASPETE, Greece

Professor