One cannot deny that the vocational secondary education system has undergone significant changes in the last decade, which were initiated with the implementation of the guidelines for the optimisation of the vocational education network. As a result, between 2010 and 2019, the network of vocational education institutions has been optimised for the improvement and development of vocational secondary education inter alia vocational education institutions were differentiated by establishing competence centres for vocational education and training, the infrastructure and material and technical basis of educational institutions were modernised, modular curriculums were introduced, the implementation of work-based learning programs was started, and majority of the standards and qualification requirements of curriculums were updated.