THE EDUCATION AND THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF ADULTS - VECTORS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

The education and the vocational training of adults is a learning process which implies the storing of knowledge, skills, abilities or the change of the attitude and behaviours in order to improve the accomplishments of people at the workplace and in everyday life. In a Europe in which the change happens drastically and regularly, the training is necessary for the development of the intellectual capital. A general rule says that the necessary of training follows from the extent of changes. The study intends to present briefly the concepts of education of adults and vocational training of adults, to make an analysis on the participation in the vocational training of adults in Romania, within the period 2004-2012, and to bring to attention a series of proposals and recommendations in order to improve carrying on the activity of vocational training of adults in Romania. The data analysed were taken from the national Strategy for the vocational training of adults 2014 2020 and refer to: the number of authorized programs, the number of authorized training providers, the number of people that have finished the courses and obtained the qualification certificates and the number of people that have finished the courses and obtained the certificates of completion within the period 2004-2012. The analysis emphasizes the heterogeneity of the system of vocational training of adults in Romania and the concentration of approximately 25% of the training activity in the municipal town of Bucharest. The proposals and the recommendations formulated resulted from double perspective: that of specialist on the list of the Commission for authorization of Suceava and that of provider. The activity of specialist focused on three directions: the assessment of the vocational training providers in order to obtain the authorization for carrying on a training program, monitoring the activity of the vocational training providers and the examination of the participants in the training programs in their capacity as member or chairman of the assessment commissions.