Output quality indicators in the vocational education – former students perspective

Abstract

Vocational Education provides the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competences for further education as well as for the possible entry into the labor market. Vocational education quality assurance involves specifying the criteria and standards that are subject to periodic review and assessment. The objective of this research was to determine the reached levels of output indicators by examining the perception of students in regard to the pilot curricula they completed in the seven educational profiles in the field of food processing. The output indicators of the educational process that were evaluated in this study were: the number of students who have completed the educational process, the number of students who upon completion started to work or continued their studies, students perspective of their vocational competence at work and their competence to continue education.