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Professional Education in the Modern World

2014 year, number 1

AN ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN THE REGION

Mikhail Nikolaevich Fedorov1, Liliya Aleksandrovna Fedorova2
1Novosibirsk State Agrarian University, Novosibirsk
2Novosibirsk Institute of Advanced Training and Retraining of Education Workers, Novosibirsk
Keywords: restructuring, the number of students, the structure of training, employment, number of businesses, competence, private ownership

Abstract

The aim of the article is to identify the trends in vocational education in the region. According to this aim, an analysis has been conducted of the changes from the beginning of market reforms to the present. It has been found that due to diminishing of the number of students in the institutions of primary and secondary vocational education, and the growth of the higher education institutions, in the vocational education in the region there is being formed a tendency of discrepancy in the size and structure of training. This leads to a shortage of mid-level professionals and skilled workers. At the regional level, we need to strengthen measures aimed at enhancing the prestige of working professions and specialties of vocational education. The authors used a novel approach that allowed considering the problem from the standpoint of the development of private property.