The agrarian education quality development through creating a multi-level longlife agricultural education system functioning in the agro-educational cluster conditions

The high significance of the production environment to form competencies and susceptibility to innovation prompted authors to develop a regional model of a multi-level lifelong agricultural education system with participating innovative enterprises of the agro-industrial complex. A special role in this integration process, ensuring the creation of an agro-educational cluster, is assigned creating stable horizontal links between agrarian educational organizations (agro-profile general education schools, agricultural colleges or technical schools, agricultural  universities, institutions for advanced personnel training  and retraining of the agro-industrial complex), which form a multi-level lifelong agricultural education system, and agricultural enterprises taking part in the development of innovative agricultural technologies and their implementation in agricultural standards. As while implementing horizontal ties, in contrast to vertical ones characterized by subordination, the coordination function prevails, so this allow avoiding the repetition of mistakes arisen when creating educational  and production complexes in the state farms-technical school form. Unfortunately, the advanced for that time idea to strengthen the  student practical training in a new professional and educational structure at its implementing process did not provide the expected results. The fact is that the presence of hierarchy and subordination in state farms-technical schools determined the educational goal dominance over production ones, which led to a gradual slowdown in the agricultural production development, and subsequently to its stagnation. As a result, the educational subsystems  of state farms-technical schools were isolated from innovative changes in the agricultural production sector and, therefore, could not provide the required quality of agricultural education. That’s why, maintaining an equal position of the organizations participating the  agro-educational cluster creation through the implementing horizontal  ties has become our hypothetical assumption about its permanent educational effectiveness. The article describes an experimental study  revealing the procedure to create a multi-level longlife agricultural education system functioning in the agro-educational cluster conditions based on horizontal links.

multilevel system longlife agricultural education, integration, continuity, innovative agricultural enterprises, horizontal ties, vertical ties, agro-educational cluster,

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