Цифровое и смешанное обучение в системе профессиональной подготовки квалифицированных кадров

The paper analyzes the problem of training of professional staff in vocational schools. The author shows that labour market in Russia is full of specialists with high education whereas it lacks the specialists with vocational education especially trained workers. The students graduated from vocational schools are employed out of their qualification in many regions of the country. This makes difficult their further career and professional growth. The author sees the reproduction of specialists, their distribution among the regions, branches and industries as an important condition of innovative economy. The paper analyzes the problems, which make training of professional staff difficult. The author makes conclusion that further development of vocational education contributes to development of educational cluster in the region (a complex of vocational schools joined according to branch characteristics and partner relations with enterprises) and innovative education environment that provides training of highlyqualified professionals and responses quickly to the needs of the regions. Following the view of scholars to the concept “innovative education environment”, the author reviews innovative education environment as a set of special conditions where teachers’ professional activity and students’ learning and education activity are carried out accompanied by innovations introducing and application. University innovative education environment can operate efficiently on the basis of humanistic, strategic, system and structural, innovative, synergetic, competency-based and cultorological approaches. Successful operation of the university education environment requires strategic management of university development, quality control of vocational education, improving professional expertise of teachers, development of the basic educational programmes, complex methodological support, application of computer technologies and formation of corporate culture in the university. The author highlights the staged, conditions and measures on formation and efficient operation of the university education environment.