material twice as quickly as compared to the classical system of training. This also
applies to the timetable of the educational process, that has no exact borders, holidays,
weekends [11].
For its part, the educational institution should also be aware of the risks of the
introduction of a dual system of education. First and foremost, they concern the
readiness for structural changes in the forms of training organization and social
partnership. When working out curricula, an educational institution should be able to
balance between market-oriented offers and educational standards. It must find such
attractive training areas for the student who not only meet the needs of the labor market
as of today, but also enable the graduate to further retrain into related professions,
improve their qualifications, and move up the career ladder [12].
Consequently, all three equitable subjects of the dual system of preparation – a
student, an educational institution and an enterprise – must display the proper level of
readiness for its introduction.
Models of the dual system of profession preparation. The standard is
Germany's profession preparation system. Dual study in Germany is in a strict
legislative framework and is carried out under the control of the Chamber of Commerce
and Industry and the Chamber of Craftsman. According to 2015, out of 3.6 million
businesses in Germany, 500,000 are involved in the program of vocational training,
with more than half of them being medium-sized or small one's. Private business puts
substantial funds into the professional preparation of the required profile specialists.
At the same time, the annual amount of investment is more than 23 billion euros, of
which 3 billion is allocated by the state [1].
Each company participating in this program must have the appropriate permission
of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry or the Chamber of Craftsman. Permission
or license means the following: an enterprise can teach only in those specialties that
cover the profile of its activities; educational and methodical support and equipment
should be created; a sufficient number of mentors of production training are trained
and certified. There are also quotas for students according to the number of company
staff.
Duration of studying in a Germany's profession school at the baccalaureate level,
depending on the specialty, is from 2 to 3.5 years. Ideally, a firm or enterprise offers
two or three places for dual sistem of preparatiom and it usually receives up to three
hundred resumes. Applicants must have high graduation marks, they shoud be
preferably multilingual. Applicants hand over a comprehensive professional suitability
test, and if the results prove to be acceptable, the company concludes a contract with
them for study and fully pays for it. During the stude, the company also pays a student
salary averaging 737 euros a month [2].
Another advantage of this system is that it is open to graduates of all types of
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