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To develop a targeted long-term public education strategy that will balance development goals of
formal education, informal education, labour market and national economic priority directions.
One of the main objectives is the preparation of the ICT professionals for the labour market.
Content improvement of general secondary education and elementary education is planned in the
framework of foreseen activities of the Development of Education guidelines for the period 20142020 (draft)32.
An important role in the training of ICT professionals plays interests’ education; therefore, it is
necessary to implement activities that support the development of interests’ education in the field
of ICT.
It is necessary to continue modernise the curriculum and digital information literacy for the
school students and teachers both to support lifelong education by strengthening the capacity of
environmental cognition and personal self-realisation, and to strengthen employment and
competitiveness.
To provide educational institutions with encyclopaedic, digital cultural heritage and research
result electronic resources related to age groups and training directions.
It is necessary to integrate information literacy learning in general, vocational and higher
education, through building appropriate learning materials and including in syllabus tasks for
development of information literacy skills. It is important to increase the role of the school
libraries – promote school libraries to become information literacy centres, including the creation
of digital resources’ reading rooms.
In order for information literacy acquisition to become a success, teachers’ professional
knowledge and skills in this area should be improved, and modern methodical aids have to be
developed in collaboration with universities and industry professionals.
Particular attention should be given to teaching process quality and subject content of
mathematics, informatics, and natural sciences in order to provide human resources for
manufacturing and high-tech based economy, through improvements in curriculum of general
education schools, including implementation of an adequate number of hours for subject
“Mathematics” in accordance with the development policy priorities in the field of science and
mathematics.
Responsible ministries together with the social partners, within the framework of educational
strategic development within the period 2014 to 2020, shall take steps aimed at improvement of
teachers’ foreign languages and ICT skills, usage of innovative technologies in the learning
process for teaching various subjects, including provision of training to teachers related to
creation of digital learning materials.
It is necessary to expand usage of digital learning materials in the educational process, covering
all subjects in primary and secondary education level. As a priority, activities that focus on the
development of interactive and original digital learning content should be supported, creating
them according to technical standards, which are supported by centralised learning materials and
operations solutions developed in the education sector. Promote the usage of available materials
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information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines
2014-2020