Kolegijos vaidmuo, teikiant neformalaus švietimo paslaugas specialistams, aktyviai veikiantiems darbo rinkoje

LTMokymasis visą gyvenimą tampa ne tik gyvenimo realybe, bet ir būtina asmeninės ir visuomeninės gerovės kūrimo sąlyga. Straipsnyje diskutuojama apie mokymosi visą gyvenimą keliamus iššūkius darbo rinkoje veikiantiems specialistams, kintantį aukštosios mokyklos vaidmenį. Straipsnį sudaro trys dalys. Pirmojoje dalyje aptariami pagrindiniai darbo rinkos pokyčiai, vykę 2000 – 2011 metais. Antroje dalyje diskutuojama apie mokymosi visą gyvenimą keliamus iššūkius. Trečioje dalyje pristatomos specialistų, dalyvaujančių Kauno kolegijos Kėdainių Jonušo Radvilos fakulteto organizuojamuose mokymuose, neformalaus mokymosi reikmės.

ENLife-long learning is the reality of nowadays life, and this process is the obligatory factor, which helps to create our personal and public welfare. The author discusses the changing role of a college as a higher school. College is treated here as an institution, enabling specialists to cope with the challenges of life-long learning process. The readers of the article are invited to discuss those questions: what the role of higher school is, providing educational support for specialists; what specialists attend trainings of informal education in higher school. The article consists of three parts. The author reviews the main changes of labour market of Lithuania in 2000 - 2011. The learning is treated as a measure, which helps specialists to cope with the educational barriers, and that point of view is reflected in the second part of the article. The author presents the main research results in the third part, discussing about the sociological portrait of the specialists, which attend various trainings in Kaunas College Kedainiai Jonusas Radvila Faculty. The article has been prepared applying the following research methods: analysis of research literature and documents, questionnaire interview, statistical analysis of research data. Summarising the discussion leaded in the article, it is possible to conclude: the processes of labour market are connected with development of global and national economics and economical situation of the EU state-members. The main characteristic factors of Lithuanian labour market are the following: high variation of unemployment rate; emigration of qualified specialists abroad and the challenges of evolutional processes (such as globalisation and europeisation), which face nowadays specialists. Life-long learning process encourages specialists to improve their qualification permanently; otherwise they risk losing their competitiveness in the labour market.The role of higher school (college) changes in the context of life-long learning – higher school should train qualified specialists and be open for the educational needs of local communities. The results of the research have showed that almost all respondents are active in the labour market. They are satisfied with their work and they perceive that they should learn in order to stay competitive as employees, thus improve their general and professional competencies. They apply methods of formal and informal learning in the process of trainings.