The Quality Of Professional And Technical Education - Analysis Based On National Quality Standards And European Policies In The Field

The purpose of this paper refers to the definition of the quality level of the educational services offered by the professional and technical education institutions, based on the national quality standards and the European policies in the field, in order to increase the capacity to substantiate the decision-making processes, both at central level and locally. This paper is based on the research of statistical data and considers two categories of information, the first refers to factual socio-educational data, resulting from statistics at national level regarding the demographic and educational developments of the population in Romania and the second category of information constitutes the results obtained from the "Survey of the labor force in the households" carried out quarterly by the National Institute of Statistics, on the basis of a representative sample. For the present paper, information from the population of 15-24 years was used from the results of this survey. Among the recommendations of this analysis is the transition from the extensive development of vocational and technical education to an intensive type development that covers all dimensions of quality improvement at the level of results, equity and efficiency.