Technology and research results of vocational education and training systems in the context of region socio-economic development

Abstract

Introduction. The level of orientation of regional secondary vocational education systems to the needs of the territories in which they are located significantly affects the economic parameters of the development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the dynamic characteristics of personnel demand and supply in the regional labor market. The technology and tools developed by the authors for studying the degree of compliance of vocational education and training systems with the tasks of economic and social development has been implemented in three subjects of the Russian Federation featuring different levels of socio-economic development: the Samara region, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District and the Republic of Ingushetia. Methodology and methods. A methodological approach was used that considers the current situation of uncertainty in the external environment of regional secondary vocational education systems. Hence, the arrangement of its educational resources, which provides the properties of a self-organizing system, becomes an effective tool for stimulating the regionally oriented development of the vocational education and training system. Achieving the compliance of the VET-system with external requests is determined by the parameters of its adaptive potential. Research methods: survey (questioning), expert evaluation method, content analysis, scaling. Results. To achieve the goal of the research, the compliance criteria were formed, as well as indicators that reflect the properties of the organization of educational resources of the system, corresponding to the principles of adaptive systems. It is established that the achieved compliance values in each region are formed by various sets of factors and conditions for the organization of educational resources. The following trends are identified for the regions: a) a decrease in employers' effective demand for vocational education programs; b) insufficient use of educational technologies and forms of training organization that optimize the resource support of the activities of professional educational organizations, including network formats for the implementation of educational programs using educational resources of enterprises in the real sector of the economy. On average, 20% of professional educational organizations in pilot regions practice a network format for implementing open source programs (as a rule, without using employers' resources). At the same time, only 6% of the student contingent are trained in such programs. Discussion and conclusion. The practical significance of the study is determined by the possibilities of applying the results of assessing the level of compliance of the VET-systems with the tasks of socio-economic development to work out and implement effective regional educational policy in the sphere of vocational education.