Improving the Quality of Professional Educational Programs of College Education against Modern Social and Labor Relations

Abstract

While analyzing the trends towards integration of the world of labor and education, development of professional standards that determine new social and labor relations, this article deals with challenges of creating an educational program design and quality system implementation. Three groups of education quality parameters have been identified, such as quality of conditions, i.e. quality of education goal achievement potential, quality of the very process of forming professionalism of a trainee, and professional education outcome quality. The education outcome quality is ensured by the formation of professionalisms of trainees against the coherence and consistency of certain training goals and correct choice of ways to achieve such goals. Educational program design and implementation under such circumstances differs from the conventional design approach to the professional educational program. The integration of the world of labor and education in the process of students’ training at a college implies incorporation of such types of activity that are envisaged by the functional chart of the professional standard into the educational programs. The functional chart of a type of professional activity of a professional-to-be standardizes managerial actions regarding common labor functions in accordance with qualification levels for the education program design. The educational program design and implementation quality control system means continuous efforts aiming at improving the structure and content of college-level educational programs, while it is a process, an act of choice, and choice outcome, as well as command-oriented information about improving college-level educational program quality. This research concentrates on determining key parameters and quality criteria for educational program design and implementation. Keywords: College-Level Educational Program, Educational Program Quality, Integration of the World of Education and Labor, Managerial Decisions