Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2017 number 1

Quality education - a source of competitiveness of our country determines its position in the world for decades to come. According to the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev [1, p. 1-3], “...a fierce competition for talent in the world economy. In today’s world, people were able to choose where to study and then work. This competition, we have no right to play”. “In this regard, ... the priority is the professional education. The key objectives are-to ensure the possibility of passing the retraining throughout their careers” [1, p. 5]. The need to revise the educational policy of Russia is connected with the fact that the urgent needs of the Russian society and the state in the development of productive forces and relations of production is very inadequate to meet present education system. Not enough thought-orientation of national education in the Western Europe, the Bologna process it more clearly reveals its substantial failures [2, p. 50-51]. In today developed concepts and modernization and innovative development programs of the country until 2020 and then until 2030 one of the most important section is the development strategy of the national training system, which should be based on a national system of professional standards. In order to reduce the imbalance of labor markets and education in 2012-2015 has been prepared by the program of renovation of the existing system of qualification requirements for workers, which must inevitably lead to a change or supplement educational programs in Russian training system. To create an objective basis for the formation of programs of professional education/training/preparation, and to obtain feedback between employer requirements and the quality of training and assessment of professional qualifications, regardless of how they can obtain from 1 January 2017 teaching professional standards in the work of education introduced legislation institutions. Will the professionalization increase the competitiveness of education? The article deals with the various aspects of this issue.