The Swedish School System (GTC) and Its Role in Modern Business

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1 Assess Improve Change Luis Young

2 The Swedish school system GTC AREAS University Preschool activities Preschool Family daycare (age 1-6) Preschool class Compulsory school 9 years Age 7-16 Upper secondary school 3 years Age Higher vocational Education (HVE) Municipal adult education Basic education for adults Upper secondary education programs Supplementary studies

school 3 years Age 16-19 Higher vocational Education (HVE) Municipal adult education

3 All the education is free The governement determines the content National plans for Preschool National plans for Compulsory school National plans for Upper secondary school

4 The governement and local authorities select and allocate the students

5 Economy Upper secondary students get subsidy from state Adult students can borrow från state. 60/40 optional Adult students and exceptions.

6 Key message Changing technology From manual to technical skills Nature of work is changning Highly skilled and motivated people The business world is changning Global competition Education in changing?

Highly skilled and motivated people The business

7 Process Picture in GTC Finance & administration Learning centres Student service healt care, tutoring Work placement ICT Teachers Upper secondary school (age 16-19) Professional skills training (employed) Higher vocational education (age 20 -) Adult Vocational training programs

Upper secondary school (age 16-19) Professional skills training

8 Mission from regional and local authorities to GTC AVT process The individ in focus Flexibility Continuos admission Adapt the system to the individ Make learning time shorter Increase validation

9 Assess? Prior knowledge Formal Unformal No formal Requierements from industry Wholeness (Holistic) Teachers Reached results Work

10 Improves a lot Methods Strings? Modular system? Blended learning? Distans? Contents Practical skills? Communications skills? Capability? Language? Mindset?

11 Strings of flexible learning Face to face lectures Industry based learning Facilitated Open Learning Computer based learning Practical skills development Independent student learning Mentoring consultant role

Computer based learning Practical skills

12 IMPROVE Something from the industry

13 2020 vision Geoff Glover Page 13

14 2020 Vision Setting the Mood Transition of manufacturing toward mass customization and personalization The size of the global manufacturing service industry will double Health, wellness and well-being will become important for differentiation and will surpass sustainability and environment The biggest source of revenue for the IT industry in 2020 will be healthcare-related More than 100 million passenger cars and commercial vehicles will be sold globally in 2020 Investments to counter cyber threats will account for up to 2.5% of the global security in 2025

environment The biggest source of revenue for the IT industry in 2020 will be healthcare-related More than 100 million passenger cars and

15 In a GTC workshop in March 2012 senior HR officers and plant managers from the Volvo companies predict the following need for competence in the year 2020 Industrial Leaders Dialogue, democracy and a coaching leadership Values and attitudes Change management Focus on the employee greater freedom and responsibilities Management by objectives and feedback on performances

Dialogue, democracy and a coaching leadership Values and attitudes Change management Focus

16 In a GTC workshop in March Production Personnel; i.e. Operators and Assemblers A higher level of automation in the work of the operators future operators might be engineers Production personnel will need the same kind of competences and characteristics as industrial leaders values, attitudes and a mindset for change

17 In a GTC workshop in March 2012 Product and Production Development Engineers Holistic perspective avoiding sub-optimization product/production Lifecycle-analyses - combining the perspective of product and customer Traditional production engineering for everyday work combined with excellence for development projects Part of the production development might be handled by the production personnel, not the engineers

and customer Traditional production engineering for everyday work combined with excellence for

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