Development of forms of interaction between the enterprise and the university within the framework of the dual education model: experience and prospects

Abstract

Introduction. One of the most important tasks of the modern education system in Russia is the search for organizational forms that can meet the needs of the labor market, solve the problem of providing enterprises, especially high-tech ones, with personnel with deep fundamental knowledge and relevant practical skills. The answer to this request is the development of a dual education system that takes into account the modern realities of socio-economic development. The purpose of the work is to study the development of forms of organization of interaction between enterprises and educational organizations within the framework of dual education. Materials and methods. In order to study the significance and prospects for the development of the dual education system, a retrospective and comparative analysis, an ecosystem approach were used. The study involved 98 graduates of one of the basic departments of the Don State Technical University (Russian Federation), who studied from 2003 to 2020 and are currently working at a partner enterprise. For the purpose of comparative analysis and confirmation of the hypothesis about the impact of training at the basic department on the acceleration of professional adaptation, two groups of employees (35 people each) with work experience from three to ten years were also interviewed: those who studied at this department and those who did not study at it. The method of group expert assessments, questionnaires, the Mann-Whitney U-test are applied Results. A survey of employees of a large Russian industrial enterprise who studied at the basic department and did not study at it showed that the average period of professional adaptation of the first was about 4.9 months, which is more than twice less than the same period in the group of those who did not study at it. Similarly, the period of perception of the corporate culture of the enterprise: for those who studied at the basic department, it is more than two times shorter than for those who did not study at it. Both groups of respondents rated the importance of mentoring for young workers by 5 points on a 5-point scale. The Mann-Whitney U-criterion for assessing the period of professional adaptation is 108.5, for assessing the perception of corporate culture – 86.5 (at U0.01=413; U0.05=471). Conclusion. The results of the study allow us to conclude about the significance of the accumulated experience in the development of the domestic dual education system and its key institutional unit – the basic department at the partner enterprise. The prospects for the development of dual education are seen in the dissemination of the principle of lifelong learning. This principle presupposes the formation of a new model of dual education as part of a vocational education ecosystem that allows taking into account current and prospective personnel requirements of enterprises.