MODERN TRENDS IN QUALITY ASSURANCE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN FRANCE

Abstract

The actuality of the article is explicated via the need to study, identify and analyze the modern trends in ensuring the quality of vocational education and training in France in order to take them into account when creating the evaluative tools for assessing the quality of vocational education in Ukraine, which can be based on evaluators, methods and criteria for assessing the quality of vocational education and training in France.

The goal was to identify and characterize the main modern trends in ensuring the quality of vocational education and training in France, as well as to clarify the possibilities of their consideration in the Ukrainian practice of ensuring the quality of vocational education in Ukraine.

The methods included the study of scientific sources, legislative, regulatory and legal documents, empirical data on ensuring the quality of vocational education and training in France – to identify the state of the research problem; theoretical analysis and synthesis, generalization of views on the research problem – to determine the main trends in ensuring the quality of vocational education and training in France, as well as to form the conclusions.

The results were based on the analysis of modern legislative, regulatory and legal documents, scientific and information sources, the main modern trends, features, criteria and methods of ensuring the quality of vocational education and training in France.

Conclusions. The main current trends in quality assurance of vocational education and training in France are explicated: the educational reforms in France implemented in recent years have contributed to strengthening the quality assurance framework for vocational education and training, as well as the overall national qualifications system; the flagship of the quality assurance system for training providers is the “Qualiopi” certification, created by the French Ministry of Labor; the methodology used by “France Competences” for certification processes is itself a quality assurance mechanism; stricter control over training providers registered on the CPF marketplace platform has reduced their number from over 25,500 in 2019 to less than 15,000 by the end of 2023; as a result of increased registration requirements, the withdrawal of obsolete qualifications and the restructuring of higher education qualifications, the number of active qualifications in the RNCP has decreased from 10,000 in the previous system to around 5,000 in the current one; following the 2018 reform of the management and financing of continuing education and vocational training in France, a new body Skills operators (OPCO) was created; the French Ministry of Labour carries out a national forecasting of skills needs for the future development of vocational qualifications, which significantly contributes to improving the quality assurance of vocational education and training in France.