Association of colleges and technical schools of transport and its role in the modern system of secondary vocational education

Abstract

The importance and role of the non-profit organization "Association of colleges and technical schools of transport", which has become a collegial body representing and defending the interests of a single educational community of railway colleges and technical schools working in the interests of the country's strategic industry, are considered. Today, the Association of colleges and technical schools of transport unites more than 50 educational organizations in the system of transport secondary vocational education. The main mission of the Association of colleges and technical schools of transport has been determined — coordination and organization of the activities of educational organizations, meeting the growing requirements of the industry for the quality of training qualified specialists of secondary vocational education, promoting the interests of transport education, including in matters of legal regulation of the implementation of tasks in the field of training specialists middle management. The factors providing the relevance and viability of the system of secondary vocational education of transport education are given. The prospects of the system of sectoral secondary vocational education are noted: the ability to quickly and disciplined rebuild, to effectively respond to the challenges of the time; the cohesion of the secondary vocational education system, manifested in the work of the Association of colleges and technical schools of transport — the coordinator and leading center of railway colleges and technical schools. A separate direction in the work of industry education is shown — participation in the WorldSkills movement in the context of the associated partnership of universities with the “Agency for the Development of Professional Communities and Workers Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia)”. The growing role of industry education in the WorldSkills Russia movement, which today is becoming a locomotive for professional education, is indicated.