The Quality Assurance System of Education as a Factor of Agriculture Sustainable Development

Abstract

The main objective of creating conditions for sustainable development of rural areas is the formation of professional staff capable of developing and implementing effective management decisions. The development of agriculture requires a rational approach to the use of all types of productive resources, taking into account environmental aspects, achieving the fullest possible employment of the rural population. To solve these problems it is necessary to attract highly qualified specialists. They should have the complex of theoretical and practical skills, knowledge and abilities. Agricultural producers must be confident in the high level of graduates of higher educational establishments of agrarian profile coming to work for them. To ensure a balance between the demands of employers for graduates and state standards allows the system of public accreditation of educational agricultural programs. The aim of the study is to determine the development of common requirements for the training of specialists of higher education engaged in agriculture. For it 95 employers, who are leaders of different levels in the agro-industrial complex, were interviewed in 10 regions of Russia and Belarus by survey and interviewing methods. Production standards benchmarks for the evaluation of the education quality is implemented in the framework of mathematical models based on statistical data. The agribusiness entities have given database for modeling through the peer review, the results of mathematical calculations underlying the determination of professional https://doi.org/10.15414/isd2018.s9.16 THE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION ... 2053 competences of future specialists. The results of the research are the basis of the national Agency for Accreditation of Agricultural Programs activities, created with the participation of the authors.