THE GENESIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: DETERMINANTS AND LEADING DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

Abstract

The article examines the most significant problems that have arisen in connection with the changes that have been fixed in the Russian vocational education system over the past three decades. The article examines in detail the influence of the leading trends in the development of society and the global economy on the educational process carried out in the space of modern professional education organizations. The article considers a problem of interaction between universities and employers. The authors conclude that the system of national vocational education has gone through a long and active path of alternating various modernization processes, starting from the 90s of the XX century and up to the present. In many ways, they are determined by the general trends in the social development of society, the global professional system, the acceleration of scientific and technological progress, the development of the economy based on digitalization and at the same time the prevalence of humanistic ideas of personal development and orientation towards the continuous nature of education and self-education.