Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2013 number 2

Reforming of the Russian professional education, especially the education of the adult working population, should be primarily directed at meeting the changing needs of rural population, taking into account the changes taking place in the society today. The analysis of a survey conducted by the authors has revealed a number of negative trends in the work with the leaders of the collective agricultural enterprises. The most important among those are: diminishing of the professional level of managers, lack of motivation for professional growth, frequent changes of managers and their lack of experience in the managerial position and some others. The current situation in the governing body of the agricultural organizations directly affects the efficiency of the agricultural manufacturing, making it low efficient. To overcome this situation, there are needed fresh approaches to the continuous training of the agricultural managers. In the authors’ opinion, one of such approaches is the creation of a “System of professional support of the managers of agricultural enterprises”. There have been made the first steps in the implementation of this system. There are described the creation of a database of the managers and their gradual involvement into individual professional support, as well as some approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of this system.