EXAMINATION OF ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS AS A TOOL FOR EVALUATING ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The relevance of the research topic is related to trends in the education system regarding the constant increase in the socio-economic significance of additional vocational education, as well as the prospects for its digital transformation (digitalization). The article considers the examination of additional professional programs as a tool for assessing additional professional education. The relevance of this issue is determined taking into account current trends in the education system, the main problems of the development of the system of additional professional education are analyzed, the role of expert councils as the main regulators of this system using the instrument in question is determined. It is shown that this role comes down to the implementation of the filtering function of this system, protecting it from the penetration of insufficiently high-quality additional professional programs that can negatively affect the process of increasing the competence of specialists as one of the most important tasks of a system of high socio-economic importance due to current trends in it.