Електронно списание "Scientific Research"

Summary: The paper emphasizes the advantages of the distance education for all the categories involved in this process. Students are, first of all, in question, for them, distance education is meaning more freedom as concerns the access and as consequence a wider range of opportunities for education and qualification.

For the employers, distance education provides the possibility of organizing education and professional development at the work place, which is often more flexible and saves a multitude of adjacent costs.

The main elements and basic properties of the flexible, distance education and its most important points are also shown.

As concerns the quality of the distance learning educational programs in the higher education institutes, the existence of a consistency between what the university offers and the performance of the external environment, of the needs of education on the labor market must be had in view.

Keywords: formal education; economic and social function; labour market; employed population; flexibility.

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