NUŽNOST USKLAĐIVANJA TRŽIŠTA RADA I OBRAZOVANJA / NECESSITY OF ADJUSTMENT OF THE LABOUR MARKET AND EDUCATION

Abstract

Events (and processes as well) which in the last twenty years have characterized the educational system in Bosnia and Herzegovina could classify this period in the “ten years of stagnation”. Compared with the wider international public Croatian and Slovenian professional public will understand a lot easier the meaning of these processes, because many of our problems at the beginning of the nineties were the same or similar. In the previous period most often we have used critically with the experiences of other countries and thus "facilitate" the creation of our essential professional decisions. The initiative of economic subjects requires that all relevant consumers of the educational system involve in educational reforms aimed to modernizing the professional activities and professional orientation of young people because it is a main element for their success. Education is an expression of the social system. All the acquired knowledge and skills should be applicable and useful in the economic and practical life. Discrepancies between education and the real needs of the labor market is one of the biggest problems in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Discrepancy between supply and demands of manpower indicates the existence of problems in the formal educational system. The education sector in BiH cannot respond to market needs, because there is no strategy for the economy and development as well as the discrepancy between the educational institutions themselves.