An employer as a customer of a graduate’s set of competencies: a new approach to the formation of the content of educational programs

Abstract

The design and implementation of a new educational technology in the system of secondary vocational education is the basis for the formation of modern approaches aimed at updating and improving personnel training, taking into account the main trends in the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation. Vocational education traditionally focuses on the employer in its activities. The new educational technology “Professionalitet” is based on the basic approaches to the training of qualified mid-level personnel for the railway industry in accordance with the modern needs of the labor market and the effective interaction of educational organizations with the main employer Open Joint Stock Company “Russian Railways”.