Abstract:

The current challenge for the developed countries in times of the economic globalization is to ensure their sustainable development in relation to people, planet and prosperity in accordance with the 2030 Agenda adopted by the United Nations for the period up to 2030. A safe and healthy environment, the health and the quality life, justice and equality, sustainability of production and cities are considered to be the most important. Ensuring of the inclusive, equitable and quality education is also one of the 17 main goals for the sustainable development according to the 2030 Agenda. Its reflection is the level of readiness of secondary school graduates for practice or for higher education.

The essential of the paper is to interpret and to compare the ideas and experiences of pedagogical staff of secondary vocational schools and the expectations and ideas of legal representatives of pupils of these schools in the Slovak Republic obtained within the KEGA project. It focuses on the assessment of the education through a questionnaire survey according to the selected quality indicators with two groups of respondents: 1018 pedagogical staff and 1005 legal representatives of pupils. The results of the quantitative analysis of the obtained data are presented graphically.

The paper conclusion is supplemented with a qualitative analysis of the evaluation according to the selected indicators reflecting the quality of education with regard to the ideas of the participating partners and their socio-economic conditions. The obtained information and the resulting recommendations, by their use in pedagogical practice, create an important prerequisite for the development of the education quality at the secondary vocational schools.

Keywords:

Quality management, education, indicators, survey, evaluation.