Формування кадрового потенціалу Збройних Сил України в системі вищої військової освіти: теоретичні аспекти

Abstract

Forming and building up the personnel potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is one of the priorities of the state policy in the field of national security and defense of Ukraine. The core of the personnel potential of the Ukraine Armed Forces is officer personnel. Their training is carried out mainly in the military education system. The higher military educational institutions and military educational units of higher educational institutions are leading in this sphere. They are responsible for the implementation of the state order for the training of officers, where quality indicators are critically important.The problem of the quality of officer training has acquired particular relevance over the past few years. Its aggravation was due to a number of factors, including the inadequate level of readiness of officers to conduct combat operations in the area of the antiterrorist operation (ATO). However, the situation has improved significantly. At the same time, some actual problems that need to be solved remain.The main directions and ways of quality of officers’ training improvement, the formation of personnel potential in the system of higher military education include the following:- development of a new generation of educational and higher education standards, taking into account NATO standards;- the formation and development of professional, ideological, moral and military qualities of a citizen-patriot defender of the Fatherland among applicants for higher education;- deepening the integration of military education with combat and special training of troops, holding joint events with the involvement of instructors from NATO member states;- improving the quality of professional and psychological selection of candidates for training;- optimization of the content of education based on the introduction into the practice of teaching developed competent content modules;- improvement of the system of competitive selection of officers for the positions of pedagogical, scientific-pedagogical and scientific workers;- increasing the responsibility of higher military educational institutions, as the main subject of the military education system, for the quality of military specialists training and guaranteeing the required level of formation competencies.