Transforming Vocational education in Slovakia

This paper aims at presentation and sharing of experience and practice from Slovakia on how the Networking Academy program is working in Slovakia as part of the Vocational education system of the country. The authors present the example of the Cisco Networking Academy model - which over the past fourteen years proved to be successful worldwide and resulted in continuous growth of participating students and teachers, who are willing to follow and acquire the newest IT computer networking skills. On February 28th 2011, the Cisco Networking Academy has enrolled its 1 millionth concurrent student for the first time and 2011 is the year of the Academy Evolution process not only in Slovakia but globally.