Experience and problems of professional training and retraining of workers in Dagestan (the second half of the 70s of the 20th century)

The article analyzes historical experience for training and retraining of workers in Dagestan about the second half of the 70s of the twentieth century, noted the im-portance of training qualified personnel for all sectors of the national economy, as in the study years and at the present stage of development. The article describes the work of educational institutions of the Republic in training workers and specialists, and notes the growth of their number and the number of specialties in which training was con-ducted. The role of mentoring, courses, individual and team retraining and the activities of industrial enterprises themselves to improve the skills of specialists and their retraining are revealed. Training and production bases equipped with modern equipment and visual AIDS were organized at all large enterprises. The significance of the decision of the XXV Congress of the CPSU and the tasks that were set for the system of vocational education for the further development of the vocational education system of the Republic was noted. Negative aspects in the training and retraining of workers are characterized, in particular, the spontaneous distribution of graduates of secondary schools between different types of professional educational institutions, insufficient awareness when choosing a profession, and not always a high level of teaching in the vocational education system.