The System of Training Workers and Technicians for Kuzbass Mining Industry in the Late 20th – Early 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects

Abstract

The system of vocational education formed in the USSR was poorly adapted to the activity in market economy conditions, therefore, the 1990s became the period of its adaptation to the market through a painful transformation. The paper analyzes the experience in target-oriented management of the of vocational education system of Kemerovo Region (Kuzbass) in the 2010s. New institutional mechanisms for training skilled workers and technicians for the region’s coal industry are discussed. The authors conduct structural analysis of technical and vocational education in Kuzbass and identify major challenges and mechanisms for their overcoming, which have laid the foundations for further development of the education system.