In recent years, re-qualification and additional qualification of expert staff are becoming an increasingly necessary prerequisite for employment on the labor market in BiH. In June 2016, there were 518.034 registered unemployed persons in BiH. Although that number is slowly reducing in comparison with the same period last year, the number of unemployed persons with high education, including doctors of sciences and masters of sciences, is worryingly high – as much as 41.085 are currently registered as unemployed.
According to centers for education of adults in FBiH and RS, the most wanted occupations for re-qualification and additional qualification are in the fields of health, traffic, and electrical and metal industry.
Two years ago, the Council of Ministers of BiH adopted the Principles and standards in the field of adult education in BiH, which give guidelines to cantonal ministries of education for the passing of laws on adult education.
Although that law was adopted in the RS in 2009, at the federal level it is still in the draft stage and the situation differs from canton to canton. The Bosna-Podrinje Canton Goražde is one of the most active cantons when it comes to the passing of regulations that regulate the field of adult education.
Inconsistency of legal regulations in the field of adult education at the territory of BiH significantly hinders the possibilities of re-qualification.
“Domestic companies need workforce that will be trained and hired in a very short period of time, and unified legal regulations would accelerate the entire process, from the training of people to do certain jobs to the filling of those particular workplaces. Technology improves and working conditions change year after year and that is something that must be followed. Based on the analysis of the needs of labor market in Goražde, the most wanted professions over the past several years were operators, machine locksmiths, plastics, pyrotechnists, sewers of upholstery for the company Prevent. In cooperation with the High Vocational School Džemal Bijedić, we implemented training based on those needs,” said the Director of the ALDI agency for local development initiatives from Goražde, Meliha Gačanin.
(Source: faktor.ba)
