THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ON THE QUALITY OF VOCATIONAL (VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL) EDUCATION
Abstract
Relevance. This paper explores the key factors influencing the quality of vocational (vocational-technical) education through public-private partnerships. It delves into the involvement of partnership entities – the state, private business, and the community – in modernizing the content, forms, means, and structure of vocational training for future qualified professionals, in line with the needs of the contemporary labor market.
Objective: To characterize the potential directions of public-private partnership impact on enhancing the quality of vocational (vocational-technical) education.
Methods: The study involves processing scientific sources, legislative and regulatory documents, and empirical data on enhancing the quality of vocational (vocational-technical) education in the context of public-private partnership projects. It includes a scientific summary based on theoretical analysis and synthesis of scientific approaches to the development of the researched problem, particularly identifying the impact directions of public-private partnership projects on the quality of vocational education.
Results: Based on the analysis of legislative and normative-legal documents in the field of vocational (vocational-technical) education and public-private partnerships, scientific sources, and empirical data, the potential directions of public-private partnership projects on the quality of vocational education are characterized. These include developing modern professional and educational standards for specific specialties based on a competence approach, modernizing the material-technical base of educational institutions, implementing contemporary production and pedagogical technologies, and providing various types of financial support to vocational (vocational-technical) education institutions.
Conclusions: The paper identifies and describes the potential directions of public-private partnership impact on the quality of vocational (vocational-technical) education, including: joint participation in financing V(VT)E; modernization of infrastructure and material-technical base of V(VT)E; updating standards for educational programs in line with labor market needs; introducing modern forms, methods, and technologies of learning; ensuring adaptability of management systems, transparency of agreements, monitoring, and evaluation of V(VT)E quality, and establishing effective feedback with students, teachers, and employers. The paper concludes with the necessity of improving legal regulation for the participation of public and private partners in ensuring the quality of vocational (vocational-technical) education.
Keywords
public-private partnership, vocational (vocational-technical) education, quality, educational programs, educational institutions.
Author Biography
Yuliia Lulkova
unior research fellow, laboratory of foreign systems of vocational education and training, Institute of vocational education of the National academy of pedagogical sciences of Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4452-5104,
e-mail: julialulkova@gmail.com
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