5 THE DUAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC
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the school has suitable facilities for teacher traineeships and students’ placements; the school has at its disposal experts from practice to improve the quality of teaching; in contact with the practice, the quality of the pedagogical employees of the given school is increased; the presumption of obtaining interesting partners and sponsors for suitable projects is increasing.
The benefits of the dual system of education and training for employers - based on an analysis of available information and experience from other companies and abroad - include: • the promotion of the dual system of education and training in countries with a long tradition of dual system of education and training has a proven positive impact on companies and their employees, as well as the financial stability of the company; • companies will get high-quality employees from “learning” places – they “don’t buy a cat in a bag”, they test the future employee before they hire him; • organizations involved in the dual system of education and training have the opportunity to attract the best graduates of secondary vocational schools; • students – dualists bring new or innovated know-how, new stimuli or ideas to organizations; • new advertising opportunities are created for the employer (on the school building, school website, company website ...); • employers involved in the dual system of education and training receive financial incentives from the state, e.g. also a tax bonus (Gábriš, 2019; Krásna et al., 2019).
5.2 Conclusions and recommendations for practice Based on the theoretical elaboration of the topic and other information obtained directly from the field (in more detail also the work of Gábriš, 2019; Krásna et al., 2019), we can formulate the following conclusions and recommendations for increasing the quality of the dual system of education and training in ZSD and recommendations for improving the practice of dual education system in a more global context: 171
