Perspectives of textile education in educational system in Slovak Republic

Slovakia is currently facing, but also other Member States of the EU, the problem of unemployment, which adversely affects the public finances, as well as the standard of living of the population. One of the reasons why job seekers have a problem on the labour market is a mismatch between their obtained knowledge and skills and the requirements of employers. This condition is mostly related to low flexibility in the educational system, in which the absence of current, objective and comprehensive description of the labour market requirements which would be usable for forming a suitable educational programs. It shows necessity to carry out an analysis of the monitoring of labour market requirements and to propose such solutions that will allow an effective transfer of employers requirements to skilled workers into the education system.