Abstract
The experience of professional education of Russian students under the conditions of the educational cluster is analyzed. Educational cluster is a relatively new kind of the educational consolidation, united by the industry sector principle, of secondary and tertiary educational institutions, created in order to increase the competitiveness of their graduates. What advantages, in comparison with the conventional education, does cluster education have? What are the features of the cluster-based education? Those are the questions that haunt the majority of the specialists, studying vocational education in Russia. The authors of the article tried to answer these, and relative, questions and in this lies the topicality of the article. The aim of the creation of the educational clusters are defined. The advantages of cluster-based education in comparison with the conventional education system are revealed. The Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering -based educational cluster is dealt with in this article. The article says how the cluster influenced the professional training in civil engineering. The change of approach to creation the flexible curricula is shown. The data over six years; concerning; training of relative specialties, training at KNAUF company training center, created under the aegis of Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering; are given. The article may seem to be useful to scholars, studying vocational training, as well as to future employers, concerned about quality of graduates.
Highlights
The developed countries experience indicates that economy and industry is developed only where highly qualified specialists and education system that trains such specialists are present
In comparison with the conventional education, does cluster education have? What are the features of the cluster-based education? Those are the questions that haunt the majority of the specialists, studying vocational education in Russia
The attractiveness of this idea for a market economy is that the integration of the learning process within educational cluster is linked with its intensification
Summary
The developed countries experience indicates that economy and industry is developed only where highly qualified specialists and education system that trains such specialists are present. The educational clusters was hopefully to increase vocational training quality so that graduates should be in demand and meet the requirements of employers This was reflected in the aims that the educational clusters were created for and these are:. The main goal, in turn, lays in the creation of integer system of multilevel education for an industry on the basis of integration of education institution into educational cluster which would: provide the quality of training, training terms optimization, further work of graduates at the enterprises; stimulate the carrying out of problem-aimed, fundamental and applied research; provide the creation of a flexible further education system for employees (Safin et al, 2013; Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, 2009). Those were created on the basis of secondary and tertiary education institutions
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