Job and Training/Education Project

The project focuses on the individual course member. "Job and Training/Education" creates and exploits cooperation between the course members and teachers to identify the needs of the individual and develop the individual's potential.

"Job and Training/Education" always includes a basic process where the individual identifies his/her skills and prepares a course plan and objectives. After this, the course centres on creating individual labour-market related qualifications either internally, through projects at the Centre for Teaching and Business, or externally through teaching programmes and work experience at an enterprise. The project includes also a forward-looking phase where the individual exclusively works to advance into some other education/training, or into a job.

The target group of is people without a job, and with problems in addition to unemployment. These problems may be due to personal, social, or cultural factors. and these people have not obtained sufficient benefit from other programmes and are not able to find a job themselves.

"Job and Training/Education" applies pragmatic and individual utilisation of a combination of modern pedagogical methods. There is a high degree of differentiation in teaching with individuals working on their own initiative, and the teacher taking a consultant role.

Differentiated teaching is combined with close cooperation and frequent meetings between staff where files, syllabuses, and logbooks are reviewed to ensure focus on the goals and resources of the individual course member. The physical learning environment has been designed as mobile "learning lakes" so that the physical space always supports the teaching/learning situation.

"Job and Training/Education" matches the course members with future goals and with enterprises, the ordinary education system, or a sector-oriented employability enhancement programme.