IMPROVING THE WORKFORCE QUALITY THROUGH THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION MODERNIZATION

Abstract The article examines the goals, tasks and measures for the further modernization of the professional education’ organization and content as a guarantee for fulfilling its immanent functions of Ukraine’ socio-economic development in the conditions of globalization competitive challenges. The professional education’ accessibility and quality play an important role in overcoming the challenges and risks of globalization and integration in the circle of partners and competitors, both among countries with a developed market economy operating on the modern technological basis, and among developing countries claiming for increase of budget revenues from traditional specialization branches, as well as for diversification and knowledge-intensive modernization of national economies. Civilization trends and economic practices of developed countries, powerful cross-border associations and transnational corporations, aspirations for cultural, foreign economic, socio-political integration into the EU structures, as well as measures for their implementation, are spreading in modern Ukraine. Such trends stimulate national civil society to actualize a number of requests to provide an average individual’ decent opportunities to meet the needs for quality education services, profession acquirement, confirmation and increase of qualification regardless of the residence place, equalization of the appropriate starting conditions in local communities and regions, as well as to improve the efficiency of public and state control over the corresponding legislative and social-labor guarantees’ implementation.References: 1. Nikolaiev Ye., Sovsun I. (no data) Vyshcha osvita v nezalezhnii Ukraini [Higher education in independent Ukraine]. 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