ROLE OF INDUSTRY-ORIENTED EDUCATION IN SPECIALISTS’ TRAINING OF TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

Abstract

The paper considers the issues ofspecialists’training in the system of industrial training. Today the general model of interaction betweenthe industrial enterprises and industry-oriented universities involves targetedspecialists’ training for the industry under the joint development of specialized training programmes. New social and-economic conditions, structural changes within the company OAO “RZhD” (Russian railway) lead to new requirements to specialists’ training. The industry-oriented education in the railway industry should be directed at the solution of the problems faced by theentire national transport network. Thus it is necessary to take into account such factors as: 1) compliance of transport education with the existing and long-term demands of the transport industry; 2) role of the transport industry in the development of industry-orientededucation; 3) place of the industry-orientededucation in thesystem of vocational education in Russia. The strategy of the transport network development in Russia identifies the role of the transport industry in the industry-orientededucation. Taking into account the multifaceted character of the industry-oriented education, the author presents the structure of the industry-orientededucation as a dynamically developing multifunctional educational cluster. Within the implementation of supplementary training programmes on the request of the industry, the Siberian State Transport University has made an attempt to combine the educational business processes existing in the university through training according to the speciality, organization of the students’research and simultaneous English language training based on the academic and professional mobility. Under such organization of training the development of communicative competence becomes an effective means of professional competence development. Thus, the development of the industry-oriented education enables to combine vocational education with the labour market needs and to improve the quality of training for the industry, and therefore, to increase the competitiveness of the transport university graduates in the labour market.