SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP AS ONE OF THE PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
In connection with the implementation of multi-level education in vocational training system, oriented towards fulfilling the regional labor market needs for the quality of young professionals training, a challenging issue in pedagogical science is the development of interaction between educational organizations and business structures in training knowledge workforce. The article considers social partnership as one of the pedagogical conditions for professional training. Social partnership in vocational training system is observed from different positions. However, in the domestic practice of developing cooperation between business structures and universities, considerable attention is given to the forms of the process organization, rather than to the development of long-term partnership. Such approach simplifies the relationship of vocational training with employers in the field of staff training. The preference is given to developing a model of long-term social partnership between universities and business structures, which includes the target, organizational and methodological, procedural and activity, resultative components and is characterized by several levels of involving employers in professional staff training: awareness; involvement; support; sponsorship; strategic partnership. Developing a system of long-term social partnership between universities and business structures allows for the training of future graduates, not only highest approximate to their future professional activities, but also contributing to the successful professional adaptation of future specialists in the professional environment.