Quality Control Modelling of Competitive Professionals’ Training at Vocational Education Institutions

Abstract

The most important condition that provides the opportunity for the professionalism of professionals is their competitiveness. The current task of institutions of professional (vocational technical) education (IP(VT)E) is to prepare a qualified and competitive specialist who not only has a certain level of knowledge, skills and abilities but can practically apply them in their professional activities. Future specialists’ training quality is based on the ability to adapt to rapidly changing production conditions. It is due both to the prospect of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and to the internal situation in the country, where a large number of applicants in IP(VT)E and institutions of professional higher education (IPHE) do not always meet the requirements of the labour market. It requires resetting educational goals and objectives of vocational education, considering global changes in society, production, and technology. This article aims to substantiate the quality management model of training competitive specialists in IP(VT)E, considering the factors affecting the quality of training and contradictions that need to be resolved in the training process and experimental verification of its effectiveness. A set of theoretical and empirical methods was used to create a model and test its effectiveness, identifying the components that have become key in creating a model of quality management training for future competitive professionals in vocational education institutions. To determine the effectiveness, a set of questionnaires was developed, and within the framework of the pedagogical experiment, a section was conducted among entrants, applicants, graduates, pedagogical workers, heads of IP(VT)E regions of Ukraine, and employers, the results were analysed.