section investigates strategies to promote quality vocational training including apprenticeships while section focuses on the support to atrisk students for a more detailed description and assessment of the latvian education system see oecd e the national ministry of education and science moes has a supervisory duty and through the subordinated national centre for education sets national educational standards and determines curricula and examination procedures it provides the regulatory framework for the provision of vocational education and employs the heads of vet establishments it also maintains the register of occupational standards and studies the skill demands of the labour market