The Evaluation of Training Programs in Qualifications for the Automobile Industry in Romania

School is the place where destinies are built. It depends on teachers whether these destinies will be built on the aspirations of the educated ones. One can hear more and more important actors of Romanian public life, but also ordinary citizens expressing their dissatisfaction with the results of the Romanian school. The goal is to have competent graduates, able to respond successfully to the requirements of the profession for which they have been prepared who are able to quickly integrate in the labour market. Before accomplishing these objectives, we must understand that any improvement in the quality of training involves an amount of changes in technical education. From this perspective, this paper presents a study on some training programs for pre-university education in Romania, for the qualifications required by employers in the automobile industry. Based on the research results, the authors propose a number of amendments for vocational training standards and curriculum documents, supposed to meet the expectations of the business environment, to facilitate a better mobility of graduates and to ensure a minimum level of knowledge required for further studies in higher education.