​Central

Central government is responsible for:

• Approves professional training standards, upon consulting the social partners.
• Regulates the organisation and carrying out of examinations for certifying professional qualifications.
• The development of a qualitative and attractive technical and vocational education,
• Assures harmonization of the Romanian developments with those realized at European and international level in elaborating the policies and strategies referring to the technical and vocational education.
• Contributes to the methodological developments referring to the educational supply planning, to development of schools institutional capacity, to organization and development of the teaching-learning process, to examination and certification, to quality assurance in technical and vocational education.

The central government supports vocational education through:

• Recognition of the skills acquired in pre-university education – technological or vocational ; programme, according to own regulations - within the tertiary non-a education;
• Partial financing for enrolment in state post-secondary-school educational ; institutions; and
• Special scholarships and other forms of material support.

The central government supports dual vocational training through:

• organization and coordination of the initial vocational training in the dual system in Romania;
• adapting the requirements of the initial vocational training in accordance with the need of qualified labor force of the economic operators;
• identifying, anticipating and periodically analyzing the skills needs and new qualifications required by the labor market;
• regulating and ensuring the quality of the initial vocational training in the dual system of the students, as well as the specialized personnel involved in the practical professional training through the dual education within the educational units and the economic operators;
• managing in electronic format the database comprising the individual contracts of practical training in dual system and monitoring the compliance of the contractual clauses by the parties;
• elaboration of a system of accreditation of the public and/or private providers of initial vocational training in a dual system, which will be approved by Government decision;
• elaboration of methodologies regarding the initial professional certification of the graduates from the dual education system, which will be approved by order of the President of the Authority;
• development of methodologies and monitoring of performance indicators regarding the insertion and retention of graduates from the dual system on the labor market and the proposal of remedial measures;
• counseling families, educational establishments and employers in order to increase the participation of students in the initial vocational training in the dual system;
• ensuring the promotion of the concept of initial vocational training in the dual system through the Professional School in Dual System;
• creation and management of the database on the skills needed on the labor market and the periodic publication of studies and analyzes conducted by the Authority for orienting students to occupations required by the labor market.

Regional

The Local Committee for Social Partnership Development is a consultative partnership structure, without legal personality, with responsibility for technical and vocational education that works to support the County School Inspectorate. It works under the Order Ministry of Education and Scientific Research nr. 4456 / 2015.

Within the Authority, 8 regional offices were set up at the level of of the 8 development regions in Romania being organized as directions within the Authority

Local

 No competencies identified at local level.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of National Education

The National Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training Development (CNDIPT)

National Authority for Dual Vocational Training in Romania (ANFPISDR)

Sources

Constitution of Romania of 8 December 1991 amended, published in the Romanian Official Gazette Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 233 of 21 November 1991.

Framework Law no. 195/2006 on decentralisation, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 453 of 25 May 2006, revised.

Law N°215/2001 of Local Public Administration, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 204 of 23 April 2001, as subsequently amended; last modified February 2007.

Law no. 315/2004 on regional development in Romania, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 577 of 29 June 2004, revised.

Law no. 340/2004 on the institution of the prefect, consolidated version published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 225 of 24 March 2008 revised.

Law No. 1 of 5 January 2011 of National Education, published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, n°18 of 10 January 2011, revised.

Emergency Ordinance of the Romanian Government no. 59 of 28 June 2018 published in the Monitorul Oficial al României, no. 580 of 9 July 2018.