ПОДГОТОВКА СПЕЦИАЛИСТОВ В ОБЛАСТИ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ КАЧЕСТВОМ

Abstract

This article presents the analysis of State Educational Standards for the specialty and major "Quality Management", prepared and brought into force by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in 2000-2015 years. The requirements for quality management specialists training, contained in these educational standards, knowledge, skills and competences required from graduates are compared with the requirements to quality specialists imposed by a modern market economy in Russia. As a result the authors suggest that instead of Bachelors of Applied Science the modern domestic companies need Engineer Quality Managers whose function is fundamentally different. According to the current educational standards the activity of a Bachelor in the company is limited to the maintenance of the quality management systems developed under ISO 9001. It is perfectly acceptable for a developed market economy where all the problems of increasing product marketability are solved within the quality management system. For emerging market economies a Bachelor degree is premature, as it is insufficient or not relevant to work only within the quality management system. Only an Engineer Manager, who for five years of study at the university has obtained knowledge relating to the different areas of company´s activity and mastered special methods and tools of quality management, can provide quality management required nowadays which is important for Russia´s emerging economy. The article also draws attention to the fact that under current conditions there is a need for state support of the quality activities and the implementation of "Concept of National Policy in the Field of Products and Services Quality", developed and published back in 2009.
 For this article the authors have used their own experience in quality assurance in construction and training of quality management specialists in BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov.