VISEGRAD conference

25-28 May 2000.

C. SOL –J.S.CHANTOME

ALTERNATIVE TRAINING :

An important step for the Education-Economy dialogue.

IN ALTERNATIVE TRAINING,

ENTERPRISES are TRAINING PLACE shared with SCHOOLS.

ALTERNATION AIMS :

A real partnership to define the contents, the methodology and the place for acquisitions of knowledge, know-how and know of behaviours (savoir, savoir faire, savoir ętre).

It is usual but not compulsory to have :

Acquisitions of knowledge mainly in academic place

Acquisitions of knowledge mainly on enterprise place

Acquisitions of know of behaviours is shared.

ASSOCIATES PROBLEMS to the ALTERNATION METHODOLOGY

I. LAWS QUESTIONS.

The place of alternation training : initial training or continued training.
The status of alternation student :
company employee, student, special status : short work contract or apprentice contract.
The sharing of responsabilities between company partener and academic partner.
The financial supplies.
The professional integration (engagement of companies ?).
The nature of the degree.

II. PEDAGOGICAL and GENERAL QUESTIONS.

Participation of enterprise and economy organisation for the building of curriculum,
The actors of evaluation and jurys.
The choice and the tasks of tutors.
The contents and the validation of academic period, the contents and the validation of enterprise period, the interactivity between them.
The recruitment of the alternation student.
The duration of alternation period.

VISEGRAD conference

25-28 May 2000.

C. SOL –J.S.CHANTOME

SOME REASONS TO DEVELOPP ALTERNATION

IN UNIVERSITIES.

TO HAVE AN INSTITUTIONAL WAY TO ESTABLISH LINKS WITH PARTNERS OF ECONOMIC AREA.

POSSIBILITIES TO FIND FUNDS.

TO PRACTISE A METHODOLOGY WHICH OBLIGES TO THINK NEW TRAININGS, NEW BEHAVIOURS and NEW SPECIALITIES (NEW JOBS):

To share pedagogic responsabilities.

To include news criteria for obtaining academic degree

To improve new pegagogic tools : deductive training, new technology…

To have a quality move, supplier – customer.

: .TO DEVELOP A TRUE VOCATIONAL TRAINING

What are meanings of vocational training for universities ?

To leave a logic of supply and to have a logic of demand : usually, the building of a training (diploma) follows a logic of supply, the degree is built for transmitting knowledge. With a logic of demand, the building of training follows demands and needs of employers.

The training are national degree and also various certifications.

TO HAVE A VOCATIONAL POLICY FURTHERS :

The development of continued training.

The participation to a human ressources policy.

A good approach of the european policy in important key areas :

employment and « learning all the life »..

VISEGRAD conference

25-28 May 2000.

C. SOL –J.S.CHANTOME

COMMENTS ABOUT OUR FRANCO-HUNGARIAN EXPERIMENT.

TO FIND AT THE BEGINNING GOOD PROFESSIONNAL PARTNERS.

TO BUILD AN SPECIAL OFFICE « ALTERNATING TRAINING »

INSIDE THE UNIVERSITY

Alternating training is a transdepartment and interdisciplinarity methodology.
Specific links with companies.
To build a degree « engineering degree or technician degree by the way of alternation » which include in its evaluation the contents of industrial period and also the management and communication training.

TO HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS .

TO INTRODUCE PERMANENT RESSOURCES

(Professionnal tax for vocational training).

TO DEVELOP TUTORS TRAINING.

Schedule of conditions for teacher tutor and engineer tutor .

Status and payment teacher tutor, company tutor.