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Hello to everyone! Ukraine, State educational institution "Podilskyi center of vocational education". Michailo Ruschak is a director. The institution is a third-level educational institution. The educational institution provides training of students that based on general secondary education and complete general secondary education, qualified specialists for the needs of industrial enterprises, construction, transport and service industries of Khmelnitsky region and the whole region, as well as training and retraining and advanced training of citizens from the unemployed population who wants to master the working professions in accordance with their vocations, interests, abilities.

Based on the countries' innovative and forward looking strategies and actions, new emerging models of public and private cooperation, various research and literature highlight that education and training in a life long learning has a potential for making multidimensional contributions:
1. the skills dimension, by providing skills for employability in a lifelong learning perspective, thus enhancing economic inclusion in the labour market and society. This dimension is very important but has been over-researched and overexposed in the literature, to the extent that it tends to dominate the public discourse about VET and social inclusion and to give rise to narrower or reductive approaches and policy measures. It therefore needs to be counterbalanced or complemented by broader considerations anchored in the civic, social and cultural roles of VET. Furthermore, this function of VET is often prone to stereotyping (gender and others) and cultural biases, leading to stigmatisation, as well as to differentiated and separated institutional and/or curricular provision, which have an adverse impact on social cohesion;
2. the social mobility dimension, by enhancing participation in education and reducing educational inequalities. VET thus helps to diminish social inequalities and improve the social mobility potential of less advantaged students. While this function of VET is more feasible and realistic for marginalised learners, its viability for middle-class learners tends to be enhanced if VET provides pathways for progression towards tertiary education;
3. the socialisation dimension, through the development of a sense of professional identity and of belonging to a professional community, while also internalising the respective professional values, standards and ethics;
4. the civic dimension, by developing knowledge and skills for accessing and participating in the labour market. VET also promotes trust in social institutions, institutional integrity, and solidarity, as well as individual willingness to build, participate in, and sustain communities. Thus, VET prepares learners for a pro-social way of life and behaviour and for active citizenship;
5. the equity dimension, by opening learning pathways for disadvantaged and marginalised individuals and groups in society and helping young people to take responsibility for their own lives.

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