Institutional Support of Continuing Engineering Education

Abstract

The article raises the issue of the need to fix in professional standards, which are the main normative documents in the field of qualifications, the requirements concerning the mandatory continuity of professional competencies of employees, including through the institution of additional professional education. The authors propose possible options for introducing these requirements without changing the established format of professional standards. The article substantiates the leading role of research and design universities as the system-forming structures in the knowledge industry in the formation of qualification requirements for new areas and types of professional activity, the necessity to develop and implement professional retraining programs for specialists before they officially acquire the corresponding status and the professional standards will be developed and approved for them.

Keywords

• continuing professional education
•  professional standards
•  digitalization
•  additional  vocational education
•  branch councils on professional qualifications