The Revolution in Science and Technology and the Problem of Training Skilled Workers in The USSR

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The Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU outlined a broad program aimed at substantially raising the material and cultural living standard of the people through high production growth rates, increased production effectiveness, progress in science and technology, and the accelerated growth of labor productivity. The Congress emphasized that the leading role of the working class as the builder of communism is strengthened in proportion to the growth in its overall cultural level, level of education, and level of political activity. The Congress's Directives on the Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy call for: an expansion in the training of skilled workers at vocational and technical schools, especially in rural areas, so that young people in general will have a specialty before they start work; training at least 9 million skilled workers for all branches of the national economy in vocational-technical schools during the five-year period; raising admissions to vocational and technical schools training skilled workers in the most complex occupations; and simultaneously, offering secondary education to 300,000-400,000 persons by 1975. The Party Congress raised the system of vocational and technical training to a new, higher level.