РАЗВИТИЕ СИСТЕМЫ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ В СФЕРЕ СТАНДАРТИЗАЦИИ

Abstract

Introduction. In connection with the recog-nized social and economic influence of standardization, expansion of global trade, regional integration, introduc-tion of information and communication technologies, standards become more and more important for gradu-ates of the technical universities, as well as for specialists from the area of management, economics, social sciences, international relations, entrepreneurship and innovation management. Purpose – to analyze development of the system of education in the field of standardization in the European Union in order to identify the areas of its modernization in Ukraine. Results. Previously education in the field of standardi-zation was understood as learning technical standards, the process of their development and influence, and was organized as short-term course of further education for engineers, specialized course for companies and general course for future engineers. Standardization is not yet a clearly defined well-established discipline in the context of theory or academics. There were many different ap-proaches and characteristics suggested by researchers in various disciplines, experts and practitioners from various countries and organizations. Later CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, having assessed the need of the European commu-nity, developed a policy, a master plan and standard study programs for education in the field of standardiza-tion. UNECE, having constant the importance of studying standardization, has developed a recommendation, in which it called the governments to include it in the pro-grams of educational institutions, as well as suggested its model program. To support these ideas ISO recommended the national standardization bodies to cooperate with higher education institutions, offering the forms and gen-eral action plan. The result was recognition of the fact that the development of competencies standardization of rele-vant specialists was one of the key interests of national standardization bodies and educational institutions. Therefore, ISO published two international standards “Competence of specialists in the field of standardization”. All these documents comprise the normative and organi-zation basis of education in the field of standardization. Originality. The conducted analysis allowed identify-ing that knowledge of standardization is a competitive advantage for graduates of engineering and non-technical study areas; standardization as a discipline must be included in their study plan at the level of bachelor’s and master’s degrees; to develop the general system of educa-tion in the field of standardization, coordinated coopera-tion of all interested parties is needed; the basis for for-mation of competencies necessary for a specialist in the field of standardization at enterprises and in standardiza-tion bodies must be international models of educational programs. Conclusion. Taking into account the European direc-tion of the development, introduction of the considered international recommendations is also needed in Ukraine. To do this, it is necessary to further analyze the system of education in the field of standardization in Ukraine, to highlight provisions requiring modernization, as well as to compose a concept for its development.