Improving governance of vocational teacher education in Ukraine within Erasmus+ project

Abstract

The paper aims at discussing the governance of vocational teacher training based on partnership and cooperation with different stakeholders and its implementation within the Eramus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project carried out in Ukraine. Within the need analysis of the project the problem of the weak linkage between vocational schools, universities that offer pre-service vocational teacher training and the employment sector was detected. The vertical hierarchal approach to vocational teacher education causes a number of problems, such as irrelevant to the need of vocational school content of training, theory-practice gap and low readiness of graduates to pursue the teaching career. Based on the findings of the need analysis four Ukrainian partner-universities developed different concepts for improving the relevance and quality of provided pre-service teacher education by “collaborative” governance and partnerships. The initial implementation of these models offers solutions to problems of quality of VET teacher training