MANAGEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROJECTS ACCORDING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF WORLDSKILLS INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
The authors of the article consider the specifics of managing professional training projects with the requirements of international standards WorldSkills. The market economy around the world continues to develop rapidly, the improvement of technologies and the constant creation of new jobs require advanced competencies from the employee. The training of the “professional of the future” currently takes a very long time - so long that the profession may disappear altogether by the time the specialist finishes training. In modern conditions, society's attitude to education is changing. An important need for ensuring personal professional stability and development is the possibility of constant (throughout life) obtaining new skills, improving existing ones (mastering new technologies) or updating them. The WorldSkills world movement forms this task for itself as a mission. The WorldSkills movement in Russia and the Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia) Union, as its operator in the Russian Federation, face large-scale tasks today: holding mass events to demonstrate and evaluate professionalism; development of a mechanism for attestation of graduates of educational programs of various orientations and levels using the mechanism of a demonstration exam according to WorldSkills standards; organizing a federal program for advanced training of teachers and masters of industrial training; organization of a special program of vocational training and additional vocational education for persons over 50, as well as persons of pre-retirement age and others. For their successful implementation and achieving their synergistic effect, co-organization and systemic integration of all steps and measures taken and are being taken now in this direction is necessary. The authors of the article set the task of studying the process of organizing practical training in accordance with WorldSkills international standards and identifying the specifics of managing professional training projects in accordance with the requirements of WorldSkills international standards. The undertaken research made it possible to formulate the main directions for improving the process of project management of professional training of personnel within the framework of WorldSkills.