The first center for advanced vocational training in Russia opened in Kuzbass

11/10/2019
In the near future, the same centers will appear in 14 more regions of the country.
Артем Коротаев/ТАСС

KEMEROVO, October 14. / TASS /. The first center of advanced vocational training in Russia, which will train personnel for new sectors of the economy in the labor market, has been opened in Kuzbass under the Education national project. By the end of this year, similar centers will be opened in 14 more regions of the country, said on Monday the Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Irina Potekhina.

"We need such sites that will become a" bridge "between the new labor market and the changing education market, it is Kemerovo that opens this marathon [to create centers for advanced vocational training], with an interval of several days, such centers will begin to open in 14 more regions of the country, and over the next three years we will have 59 [centers], "Potekhina said at the opening ceremony in Kemerovo.

Advanced vocational training centers (PTCs) are created within the framework of the national project "Education" on the basis of existing vocational educational institutions to train personnel for key sectors of the economy. According to Potekhina, by 2024, thanks to the national project, 100 such centers will be opened in Russia.

The Kuzbass Center for Advanced Professional Training was created on the basis of the Siberian Polytechnic College in Kemerovo. About 54 million rubles have been allocated from the federal budget to equip it. Every year, at least 1,000 people will be trained here in the most popular and promising professions according to WorldSkills standards. The center has already begun developing individual training programs on innovative competencies in the coal and chemical industries, the director of the technical school Viktor Lysenko told TASS.

"The CSPC will create new educational programs for those competencies that do not yet exist in ordinary educational institutions, for example, operators of unmanned vehicles or aerial vehicles. Programs under the order of employers - [the largest chemical plant in the Urals] Azot and [coal holding]" SDS-Ugol "- have already begun to do", - Lysenko said.