Croatia is working to improve its education and training system at the European, national, and local levels. At the European level, Croatia is participating in programs to improve quality assurance, develop a qualifications framework, create new curricula, and boost local employment partnerships. At the national level, challenges include educational programs that lack appropriate learning outcomes and an ineffective admissions policy. Needed actions involve planning qualifications in advance based on future economic needs. At the local level, infrastructure like school renewal is managed by counties and municipalities while curricula are set nationally, and schools have innovation freedom.

1. CASE CROATIA
Dario Baron

2. EUROPEAN LEVEL
IPA – Operational Programme Human Resource Development
•Quality assurance
•Croatian Qualification Framework
•New curricula
•Local partnership for employment
ESF – more resources for further development
FP7 and LLP
All project are in line with Education and training 2020
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3. CURRENT SITUATION
CHALLENGES:
•Educational programmes don’t have appropriate learning outcomes
for the quality and type of knowledge and skills;
• Admissions policy is not working to reduce imbalances in the labor
market;
• Low average educational level of the inactive population hinders its
activation.
NEEDED ACTIONS:
• Plan the qualification on time;
• Develop projections of future needs of the economy/employers;
• Reshape the demand for knowledge and skills to the level of
vocations and competences;
• Plan the necessary qualifications and educational outcomes in formal
education and adult education.
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4. NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVEL
INFRASTRUCTURE:
•Responsibility of counties and municipalities
•Renewal of 338 schools in 2012-13 (800M EUR) – important role of
central government
CURRICULUM:
• Responsibility of central state
• School curricula – schools have freedom to be innovative
External evaluation on national level
School’s self-evaluatation
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5. IN THE FUTURE ...
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