The secondary vocational education and labor market requirements in Iraq (the period after 2003(

Abstract

Vocational education has great importance to comprehensive national development as it provides intermediate cadres able of operating the factories and laboratories in the farms and fields beside the work in the fields of health, service, administration and commercial. Due to the importance of this type of education in society, it is necessary to do a qualitative reform of vocational education in order to make the educational staffs get the necessary basic expertise to adapt the requirements of the labor market and try to rearrange and organize the workforce through put long-term economic and social policy through certain planning open to the workforce. The workforces structure according to gradual expansion in all the national economic fields especially the coordination with the educational policy to accommodate this workforce within their real needs. This required find kind of balance between the education policy and outlets from one side and the market labor from another side to clarify all the needs of various labor types and their levels in every field of the states

The importance of the study comes from this point to highlight on the reality of the vocational educational in Iraq after 2003 and its ability to response to the occurred developments in labor market which consider of the rapidly changing variables as it connected with the technological, economic, political and social changes. As well as it effected by the challenges that facing every sides. The required policies and strategies to achieve harmonization among the secondary vocational education outputs and the requirements of the labor market reduce the unemployed rate of the professional skills that formed the secondary vocational educations outlets in Iraq