Opatrenia Európskej únie pri harmonizácii vzdelávacej sústavy s požiadavkami trhu práce
EUROPEAN UNION MEASURES ADOPTED TO HARMONIZE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WITH THE LABOUR MARKET NEEDS

Summary/Abstract: Confrontation of the Slovak society with the phenomenon of a mass unemployment after 1989 evoked a lot of complex questions about the position and character of a moder face of the labour factor – human capital in the transformation process and in the current capitalism logic as a whole. The contrast between the above average level status of the Slovak Republic population formal education indicators in the context of the most developed world economies (OECD) and the total below average performance of the Slovak economy is really significant. At the same time this contrast on the politi-cal-and-economy level, is the best presented mainly by the high share of young, rela-tively well educated participants on the labour market, who, after finishing their schools, join the army of a long time unemployed. No dispute, the present unfavourable situation resulted from two substantial transformation problems running in parallel. This is not only Slovakia special feature, but a typical reflection of the unbalanced mar-ket labour in all transformation economies, and being also a long term problem of still deeper integrating European Union. The following are the issues: • a complex and indistinct set of problems associated with the need of re-qualification of a massive range of unemployed as subjects of a structured unemploy-ment that came to life due to significant reduction in some industries of the primary and secondary economy sector; • a need for a substantial quality change of the overall educational system in favour of extended models of a long-life education, training on labour market orientation, in favour of elements supporting the flexibility or alteration of the work description for particular positions and skill, while promoting the system of standardization, unifica-tion as well as the economic criteria of particular skills profiles and segments of educa-tion. The principal reason for a dynamic solution of both selected areas of structural and adaptation-and-mobilization rigidity for the labour market in the SR, as well as in the EU countries is distinctive. Because of that, the author in his article attempted predomi-nantly to picture a complete characteristics of the institution-and-standardization meas-ures, which have already been approved and implemented by the EU member countries, and which are thus closely associated with further integration ambitions of the Slovak Republic. The following areas were focused: • characteristics of the mission, tasks and activities the European Centre for the Development and Information of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) based in Solun being a specialized EU agency; • human resources accounting – HRA, also in the context of the quality standardiza-tion of educational models within Total Quality Management (TQM) a European Qual-ity Award (EQA);

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