Vocational Education and Training in Context of Industry 4.0: Development Strategy of Study Branches Transport and Automotive Service and Repair

Abstract

The ever-increasing pace of innovation and technological change in the automotive industry has a significant impact on car sales and after-sales services. Ability to respond quickly to the relevant changes and innovations becomes an imperative in both sales and after-sales services. Related to this is the need to ensure adequate training of employees for the given sector. In this context, the authors of the article analyze possibilities of innovation and development strategies for the study branches Transport and Automotive Service and Repair in focus on a selected Upper Secondary Vocational School located in Bratislava, which is one of the important providers of vocational education and training of labor forces for transport and transport services in Slovakia. Main results of their analyses are summarized in SWOT and STEPE tables. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

Author Keywords

vocational education and training secondary vocational schools Innovation and development factors Study branches Transport and Automotive Service and Repair

Index Keywords

Personnel training Apprentices Vocational education and training Sales Vocational schools strategic planning Automotive industry Industry 4.0 Automotives Development strategies Repair Technological change In contexts After-sales services Innovation and development factor Secondary vocational school Study branch transport and automotive service and repair

Author Affiliations

Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia

Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia, Upper Secondary Vocational School for Transport in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

Upper Secondary Vocational School for Transport in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

Funding & Acknowledgements

Ministerstvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a športu Slovenskej republiky

Grant: 2021-1-SK01-KA122-VET-000035628, VEGA 1/0033/22

Acknowledgment. This work has been supported by the Scientific and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic under the project No VEGA 1/0033/22 Research-oriented teaching in mathematics, science and technology education, project No 2021-1-SK01-KA122-VET-000035628 Digitalisation and Green Technologies in Vocational Education in the Field of ICT, Security Systems in Automotive and Industry and the Bratislava self-governing region.

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Vocational Education and Training in Context of Industry 4.0: Development Strategy of Study Branches Transport and Automotive Service and Repair

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