Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: TRANSITION
In the German discourse, there are many complains about the lack of such competencies
across all educational levels (see also IV.2.1) but also about general behaviour (social norms,
values, secondary virtues like punctuality, cleanliness, exactness etc).
A good overview in a more comprehensive manner gives the paper written by the “national
vocational education pact”43.
More specific to the work‐processes there is a greater demand on competencies like: decision
making
process‐control
self‐control
self‐reflection
The general trend behind this kind of competencies is a requirement for academic
competences that allows the single person to deal more independent within the workplace, to
develop the workplace and the own competence and to control the outcomes and processes
without permanent supervision.
Italy
The yearly survey on Italian companies intentions to assume new workers (Excelsior) is the
most important source of information about needs and demands of Italian labour market,
even if the cross checks made at the end of the year usually show a great difference between
the need expressed and the real action taken.
Anyway, professional figures that seems to be requested by the labour market currently are:
Paramedical sector: trained nurses and physiotherapists.
Information technology sector: electronic engineers
Working class: skilled welders, carpenters, blacksmiths, electricians, founding plants
attendants
Tertiary sector: cookers, sales assistants and waiters.
43 Bundesagentur für Arbeit (2006). See also
http://www.schulministerium.nrw.de/BP/Unterricht/Faecher/Berufs_Studienorientierung/08_IHK_NRW.pdf
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