SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AS A MECHANISM FOR THE FORMATION OF WORKERS IN MODERN RUSSIA. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

Based on the analysis of materials from annual reports and monitoring by the Ministry of Education of Russia in the field of the personnel training quality, the author of the article considers the key features of the development in the modern system of secondary vocational education: an annual increase in the number of students, as well as the number of educational institutions of higher education and their branches implementing secondary vocational education programs; development of new digitalization practices; priority in the employment of graduates of secondary vocational education institutions over graduates of universities; as well as, the personnel shortage of secondary vocational education organizations.