Developing Professionally Important Personal Qualities of a Future Mining Engineer in the Conditions of Dual Training in Kuzbass

Abstract

Kuzbass mining managers have certain requirements for professional skills of future mining engineers. Along with theoretical and practical knowledge, they expect university graduates to possess professionally important personal qualities that allow mining engineers to work in potentially dangerous environment and bear responsibility for themselves and their team. Dual training is a form of social partnership between an educational institution and a large industrial enterprise. The article provides mechanisms for interaction between social partners and describes the possibilities of dual training as a means of developing professionally important personal qualities. The author reviewed foreign and Russian publications in the field of dual training and analyzed regulatory documents, requirements of mining managers, curricula of Mining university programs, personality characteristics of students of the practice-oriented specialties, and the socio-psychological climate at Kuzbass mining enterprises. The research resulted in an adjustment project for Mining majors and curricula developed by an expert group of university staff and mining enterprises.