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The main purpose of vocational and technical education is to make the individuals gain: knowledge, ability, and practice sufficiency which are needed for particular occupation. On the other hand the main function is to make the individual provide financial income and with this be useful to society at social and economic ways. Vocational and technical education has great affection power at development of country's economy with human labor qualities. For this reason, in the developed countries vocational and technical education has special importance. In the developed countries; for more strong economy and more rapid social development, more qualified work labor is need to be provided. With this purpose, an effort is made to develop vocational and technical education.
In many countries, vocational schools are one of the most important education institutions at raising qualified human power. It is aimed the vocational school students to have more theoretical knowledge than technical man, and more practice ability than engineers by graduating with technician title. In education programs, students must perform a part of their education at companies as interns for two or three months duration. It is necessary for the students to graduate. Students can find various abilities during the period where they are at the companies.
The VET Institution is the training institution, the promoter of the internship. Since the internship is a work-based learning method, be it a real or a virtual training, it will be necessary to draw up some documents and define the contents so that the internship can take place. The VET institution is responsible for signing the traineeship contract and is a point of reference for both the company and the trainee, it performs a monitoring activity on the compliance of the process.
The specific tasks of the promoter institution:
The role of vocational education and training
The study contributes to a better understanding of how European vocational education and training (VET) is changing in the 28 member states of the EU.
The changing nature and role of vocational education and training in Europe
The aim of the paper is to review scholarly attempts to define or explain vocational education and training and to develop a theoretical model to analyse national definitions or conceptions of VET and how they have changed over time. Define or explain vocational education and training and to develop a theoretical model to analyse national definitions or conceptions of VET and how they have changed over time.
The role of internships in Higher Education
Key words: internships, experiential education, work-based learning: Introduction: History of Internships