Four days of fighting within the Worldskills Competition-2017 are behind us. 32 out of 58 members of the Russian team returned home with awards. Our team has 6 gold, 4 silver and one bronze medals. Another 21 participants took a medallion for professionalism.
The WorldSkills International (WSI) movement was born in Spain in 1947, at a time of great need for skilled workers. The first championships were held in order to popularize working professions and increase their prestige. Today, competitions are held every two years, for Russia it was the third world championship. For the first time, the Russians performed at the global championship in 2013 in Leipzig, the next competition was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
“In 2012, Russia joined the movement. And the fact that today our guys - 58 people from 22 regions of Russia, were able to enter the world championship and perform with dignity, this is our huge victory, ”concluded Deputy Prime Minister Olga, who came to support the participants.
IN medal count Russia became the fifth, after China, Korea, Switzerland and Brazil. In the team standings, Russia became the first.
For the first time, Russians competed in all 52 competencies. The competitions were held in six blocks of professions: construction, IT-technologies, art and design, industrial production, services and civil transport.
In addition, the Russian masters participated in the presentation competencies, the awards in which are not yet taken into account in the overall medal standings of the team.
Will return as non-ordinary employees
The Russian team included participants aged 18-25 years. In a separate standings - for the first time in the history of the world championship - juniors aged 14-16 competed.
Russia was represented by participants from 22 regions of the country, Alexei Tymchikov, technical director of the WorldSkills Russia union, told Gazeta.Ru. According to him, the task was to make all of them feel like a team, and not a representative of some separate Russian subject.
Competitions for members of the Russian team began long before the championship in Abu Dhabi. The main composition of the team, 58 people, was formed from an expanded team, which included the winners of regional championships. Only one participant was to go to Abu Dhabi for each of the competencies, with the exception of those where the participation of a couple was implied - for example, concrete workers. “Sometimes the competition was 5-6 people per place,” Tymchikov said.
All participants were trained in specialized centers, often outside their native regions. They also underwent training abroad, pumped not only professional skills, but also English language, passed psychological trainings learning to work under stress.
In addition, during their classes, they received knowledge on the organization of work and time management. After such “manual” preparation, they can enter the business already as managers, start their own business. “I don’t think that any of them will return to the profession as an ordinary employee,” he said.
The winner in the refrigeration and air conditioning competency, Polyakov from Kazan, is not going to go into business yet, he said that he already works at a plant in his hometown. He prepared for the world championship for a long time and hard, but not in Tatarstan, but in St. Petersburg, since it is there that the training center for his competence is located. The World Championships in Abu Dhabi are not his first international competitions - last year Vadim won EuroSkills in Sweden.
According to him, the competitors did not pose a threat. Rather, I had to fight with myself. Sometimes it seemed that there was not enough time for the task, but we managed to pull ourselves together, do our best and win. “There are always chances to win,” Vadim is sure.
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Tension at the sites
The biggest competition for medals was in the "cooking" category - 42 participants. Mechatronics was not far behind - in this discipline there were 38 contenders for the title of the best. Mastery in the restaurant service was demonstrated by 37 people, among whom was the Russian Natasha Baranova from Chelyabinsk.
Everyone who came to Worldskills tried to prove that he was the best in his field. True, sometimes incidents happened on the sites. So, the participants of the landscape design competition faced a funny but true situation. It would seem that what is enough in the Emirates is sand, but it was this material (about 600 tons in total) that was periodically not enough to complete the task of landscape design - the arrangement of an Arab courtyard, says the CEO of WorldSkills Russia. According to him, the organizers tried to quickly correct the shortcomings.
There was a tough struggle between the participants, even coalitions were created, he shares the secrets of the championship behind the scenes. For example, there were European and Asian coalitions, and since Russia is in the middle, it was forced to join, depending on its interests, first one side, then the other.
In some competencies, the tasks turned out to be more difficult than expected. For example, in "mechatronics" instead of non-flowing materials that needed to be sorted, there appeared bulk materials, and this came as a surprise to the guys.
“More than 30% of the task was changed,” said Olga Yachmeneva, a representative of the painting and decorative work competency. According to her, it was difficult, because the experts constantly distracted, and because of this there was not enough time. “They realized that I was a strong participant, and deliberately distracted,” said the girl.
The 40-degree heat also played its role. We had to buy additional fans for the site - the spaces were large, the air conditioners could not cope.
Not only the contestants, but also the experts had to fight for the victory. A member of the national team in the field of "robotics" was given zero points for completing the module, although the equipment manufacturers on the site assured that the Russian guys had one of the best robots. I had to appeal the decision of the judges, says Urazov. As a result, Andrey Dyubanov was able to take silver in this skill. Participants from Korea received gold.
Teachers need to be trained
The guys at the meeting of the national team with Olga Golodets admitted that they tried to do everything they could, but calmly talked about stronger competitors.
For example, in certain categories there were favorites: such countries as Japan, Korea and China sounded more often in technical specialties. The chefs, on the other hand, had a noticeable superiority of culinary powers - Italy, France and, of course, Russia. “It was difficult. According to my assumptions, the Asians should have been the winners, but this year it turned out differently. Best works Europeans and Russians had them,” said Sergey Khrkhryan, a member of the Russian team from the Rostov region.
When asked by Golodets about whether the WorldSkills standards can be applied in Russian colleges, the young specialist replied that first you need to train teachers. According to him, educational institutions lack equipment and teaching materials. “To be honest, I studied from the books of 1983,” Khrkhryan drew attention, adding that he was ready to share his experience. Similar problems were found in other professions.
Mikhail Ukhankin, a member of the Russian team in the Tiling skill, told how he had to learn from old materials. “There were very few tiles, and if there were, they were very old,” the participant said.
According to him, colleges need to look for new approaches to teaching - to move away from the old technology of laying tiles on clay.
Vitaliy Bondarenko, a participant in the "Carpentry" competency, named the French and Hungarians among his main rivals. “I won myself for sure,” he added.
The guys admitted that they are ready to share their experience in their regions. “The championship has passed, and I am very happy, because what I could not work out on myself, I can invest in the next contestant (a participant in the next championship, which will be held in two years in Kazan, Russia - approx.). His victory will be my victory as well,” said Boris Satarov, a participant in the “Turning on CNC machines” competency.
The Russian participants will have to analyze their results, mistakes and shortcomings, but all of them adequately represented the country at the championship in professional excellence. Golodets asked them to write down all the pros and cons of the Russian education system. “I think that the guys, having arrived in Russia, will do such work in a week or two, and we will analyze everything together,” Golodets added.
According to her, all Russian colleges will be able to switch to Worldskills within two years. So far, only half (49.7%) of them have done so.
“Our goal is for everyone to pass. For all colleges to have necessary equipment so that all teachers are world-class competent, and this is a serious task,” she said.
Russia will host the next championship. WorldSkills Kazan will be held in the capital of Tatarstan at the end of August 2019.
The Russian national team took first place in the team standings of the WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017 World Skills Championship. Russia won 11 medals and 21 medallions for professionalism. In the medal standings, the Russian team took 5th place. The results of the four-day competition for awards among representatives of 77 countries were announced today at the closing ceremony in Abu Dhabi.
Russia has confirmed its leadership in six professions. Gold medals were given to members of the national team of sitessia in the competencies of IT solutions for business, Web development, Jewelery, Refrigeration and air conditioning systems, Network and system administration, Freight forwarding.
Russia won four silver medals in Mobile Robotics, Hairdressing, Visual Merchandising and Storefronting, and Truck Maintenance.
The only "bronze" went to Russia in the competence of Stonecutting. The “Best of nation” award as the best representative of the country was received by the owner of the gold medal in web development, Konstantin Larin from Chelyabinsk.
In addition to traditional medals, the Russian team won 21 medallions for professionalism. Such awards at the WorldSkills championships are awarded to contestants who have fully coped with the task and have shown high-quality average level professional training.
The competition was held from 14 to 19 October at the Adnec International Exhibition Center in Abu Dhabi. 1300 contestants from 77 countries of the world took part in the World Championship. A total of 52 competencies were presented at WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017. The Russian team for the first time took part in all disciplines.
The national team of sitessia, consisting of 58 contestants, represents their country at the world championship for the third time: for the first time, Russia took part in the world championship in 2013 in Leipzig, and in the second - in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from where she returned home with 6 medallions for professionalism.
As part of the closing ceremony of WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017, the flag of the WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017 was solemnly handed over to Russia as the host of the next, 45th championship. The organizers of the championship in the UAE passed the baton to Kazan. The flag was accepted by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets, General Director of Rosatom State Corporation Alexei Likhachev, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, General Director of the Union "Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia)" Robert Urazov and Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin
The best representative of Russia among the winners of WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017 will deliver the championship flag to the World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi. There will be an official celebration of the WorldSkills flag, where the WorldSkills Flag Relay project will be launched. Then the championship flag will go to the International Space Station and return to Earth on February 27, 2018. After that, the flag will cover 33 previous host cities and all 85 subjects of the Russian Federation, from where it will go to the opening ceremony of the WorldSkills Kazan 2019 championship.
The WorldSkills Competition 2019 will be held in Russia. This decision was made in a general assembly vote at the 2015 Sao Paulo World Cup. Kazan bypassed Paris and Belgian Charleroi. The 45th World Championship will be held from August 29 to September 3 and will bring together more than 1,500 participants from more than 60 countries.
Winners and prize-winners of the 44th WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017 (Russian team):
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contestant |
Competencies |
Region |
reward |
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Ryzhov Viktor Andreevich |
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Kostyashin Dmitry Konstantinovich |
03. Teamwork in production |
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Sychugov Sergey Andreevich |
03. Teamwork in production |
Saint Petersburg |
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Aksenov Maxim Sergeevich |
04. Mechatronics |
Chelyabinsk |
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Arapov Alexander Rimovich |
04. Mechatronics |
Chelyabinsk |
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Mineev Albert Eduardovich |
05. Engineering design - CAD |
Republic of Tatarstan |
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Satarov Boris Anatolievich |
06. Turning work on CNC machines |
Voronezh region |
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Kazmin Alexander Sergeevich |
07. Milling work |
Voronezh region |
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Yakhin Rafael Amirevich |
08. Stone cutting |
Republic of Bashkortostan |
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Derbeneva Anna Alekseevna |
09. IT solutions for business |
Kirov region |
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Mindigaliev Vadim Fatkullovich |
10. Welding technologies |
Chelyabinsk |
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Ukhankin Mikhail Viktorovich |
12. Tiling |
Krasnodar region |
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Shevchenko Maxim Nikolaevich |
15. Plumbing and heating |
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Kadnikov Maxim Sergeevich |
16. Electronics |
Sverdlovsk region |
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Larin Konstantin Viktorovich |
17. Web development |
Chelyabinsk |
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Glazunov Roman Vladimirovich |
18. Wiring |
Novosibirsk region |
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Kazantsev Pavel Vyacheslavovich |
20. Brickwork |
Mari El Republic |
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Piskunov Daniil Alexandrovich |
21. Dry construction and plastering works |
Krasnodar region |
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Yachmeneva Olga Nikolaevna |
22. Painting and decorative work |
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Dyubanov Andrey Dmitrievich |
23. Mobile robotics |
Republic of Tatarstan |
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Fadeev Pavel Andreevich |
23. Mobile robotics |
Republic of Tatarstan |
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Bondarenko Vitaly |
25. Carpentry |
Krasnodar region |
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Stepin Nikita Andreevich |
27. Jewelery |
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Kostikov Egor Alekseevich |
29. Hairdressing |
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Trebnikova Alina Valentinovna |
30. Applied aesthetics |
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Kozhinova Elena Sergeevna |
31. Fashion technology |
Ulyanovsk region |
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Kirillin Stepan Igorevich |
32. Confectionery |
The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) |
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Baranova Natalya Vasilievna |
35. Restaurant service |
Chelyabinsk |
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Polyakov Vadim Vladimirovich |
38. Refrigeration and air conditioning |
Republic of Tatarstan |
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Shmakov Leonid Fedorovich |
39. Network and system administration |
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Belikova Anna Nikolaevna |
40. Graphic design |
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Nurshinov Umar Shirinovich |
44. Visual Merchandising |
Chelyabinsk |
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Ryzhikov Vladislav Igorevich |
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Leontiev Maxim Viktorovich |
46. Concrete building work |
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Larionov Nikolai Nikolaevich |
49. Maintenance of trucks |
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Shmonin Gleb Alexandrovich |
Freight forwarding |
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Kim Anastasia Stanislavovna |
3D modeling for computer games |
Chelyabinsk |
The Russian national team took first place in terms of total points at the World Championship in Professional Skills. The results of the competition were announced today.
Photo — worldskills.ru
In total, Russia won 11 medals and 21 medallions for professionalism, placing fifth in the medal standings. The competition was held from 14 to 19 October at the Adnec International Exhibition Center in Abu Dhabi. 1300 contestants from 77 countries of the world took part in the championship. A total of 52 competencies were presented at WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017. The Russian team for the first time took part in all disciplines.
Medals
Gold medals received by the participants of the WorldSkills Russia national team in the competencies of IT solutions for business, Web development, Jewelery, Refrigeration and air conditioning systems, Network and system administration, Freight forwarding.
Four silver medals Russia won in competencies, Hairdressing, Visual merchandising and window dressing, Maintenance of trucks.
the only bronze medal went to Russia on the competence of stone-cutting.
"Best of nation" award as the best representative of the country received the winner of the gold medal in web development Konstantin Larin from Chelyabinsk.
In addition to traditional medals, the Russian team won 21 medallions for professionalism. Such awards at the WorldSkills championships are awarded to contestants who have fully coped with the task and have shown a high-quality average level of professional training.
Past and future championships
The WorldSkills Russia national team of 58 contestants represents their country at the world championship for the third time: for the first time, Russia took part in the world championship in 2013 in Leipzig, and the second time, from where it returned home with 6 medallions for professionalism.
As part of the closing ceremony of WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017, the flag of the WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017 was solemnly handed over to Russia as the host of the next championship. The organizers of the championship in the UAE passed the baton to Kazan. The decision to host WorldSkills 2019 in Russia was made by the General Assembly at the 2015 WorldSkills in Sao Paulo. Kazan bypassed Paris and Belgian Charleroi. 45th championship peace will pass from August 29 to September 3, 2019.
The final of the National Championship "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia) is the largest competition of professional skills in Russia according to WorldSkills standards among students of secondary vocational educational institutions aged 16 to 22, contributing to the professional orientation of young people and the introduction of the best international practices into the domestic education system.
Competitions of the national championship are held in the competencies of 6 blocks of professions: the construction industry, information and communication technologies, creativity and design, industrial production, services and civil transport.
In 2017, the final of the V National Championship "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia) was held in Krasnodar from 15 to 19 May at the site of the exhibition and congress complex "Expograd Yug". Students and schoolchildren took part in professional skills competitions in 109 basic and 4 demonstration competencies. The Championship brought together a record number of contestants and experts - more than 3 thousand people. For the first time, the geography of the competition covered almost the entire country, 84 regions entered the championship movement.
More than 1,200 contestants, including international ones, took part in the finals of the 5th National Championship "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia) in Krasnodar. 950 students of secondary professional organizations and 300 schoolchildren competing in the III National JuniorSkills Championship fought in the final of the National Championship. The performances of adults and young participants were evaluated by 1,400 experts.
As part of the final of the 5th National Championship "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia), Krasnodar hosted the 1st Open Eurasian Championship. In the fight for awards in a separate medal standings in 31 competencies, there were students from Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. 59 representatives of three countries of the Eurasian space competed along with Russian contestants.
For the first time, a team of participants from the Kursk region was represented at the National Championship. Our team included winners qualifying competitions in 4 competencies: Hairdressing (student of KSPK Yanovskaya Yulia Vladimirovna), Software solutions for business (student of KSPK Gerasimov Evgeny Alexandrovich), Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (students of the CATC Askarov Ruslan Alisherovich, Kosolapov Alexey Igorevich, Borzenkov Igor Nikolaevich, Tarasova Elena Valentinovna, Grishchenkov Daniil Ruslanovich ) and Welding technologies (student of ZhPK Gorelov Mikhail Aleksandrovich).
The official delegation of the Kursk region was represented by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Education and Science Vorobieva O.A. and the head of the Regional Coordination Center, director of the Zheleznogorsk Mining and Metallurgical College, Shebanov A.N. who took part in the events of the Business Program of the championship, to which key figures of Russian politics, business and non-profit organizations were invited.
The business program discussed topical issues of the development of vocational education in the country, such as:
- Implementation of the priority project “Workforce for advanced technologies.
- Staffing strategy for the region.
- Approaches to the modernization of regional systems for training workers and engineers.
- Development of the Worldskills movement in the Eurasian space.
- Formation of an expert community and certification of experts.
- Experience of participation of Russian regions in a pilot project to introduce a demonstration exam into the GIA system of colleges and technical schools.
As part of the competitive events, an Expert Championship was held at which experts in competencies from various educational organizations professional education of the Kursk region: Kosinova Zh.V. (KGTTS), Rodionova V.V. (KPK), Yankova A.A. (OPK), Zhilin V.N. (OAT), Biryukov A.S. (OAT), Konorev R.N. (ZhPK), Shevchenko A.I. (ZHPK), Gostev V.P. (KATK), Sotnikova A.A. (KSPK), Tarasova L.A. (KSPK), Tolmacheva I.N. (KGPC).
II "Expert Championship" was a training course to prepare for participation in the National Championship, which studied the following issues:
- organization of WorldSkills championships and their structure;
- a system of end-to-end monitoring of the results of participants' performance at the Championships, qualifying rounds and Qualification exams according to HRV standards;
- the main regulatory documents of the Championships according to HRV standards, the procedure for development and updating;
- organization and holding of the regional championship;
- drawing up a methodological package for holding your own championship (Technical description, Competition task, Infrastructure list, development of evaluation criteria) Flying Bird;
- distribution of roles (international expert, competency manager, teacher, certified expert, RF expert, DE expert);
- drawing up a methodological package for holding your own championship (Technical description, Competition task, Infrastructure list, development of evaluation criteria) Flying Bird
As a result of the training, testing was carried out for knowledge of WSR standards and regulatory documents and project defense. All participants were given training certificates.
Participants of the Championship from the Kursk region at the National Championship showed high results and many of them received well-deserved awards as a result of the competition. A student of OBPOU KSPK (Director Morozova O.I.) Gerasimov Evgeny Alexandrovich took 1st place in the National Championship in the “Software Solutions for Business” competency and 1st place in the First open championship countries of the Eurasian Commonwealth in the same competence, a student of OBPOU KSPK (Director Morozova O.I.) Yanovskaya Yulia Vladimirovna took 3rd place among the participants competing in the competency "Hairdressing", and students of OBPOU KATK (Director Saltanov A.V.) Askarov Ruslan Alisherovich , Kosolapov Alexey Igorevich, Borzenkov Igor Nikolaevich, Tarasova Elena Valentinovna, Grishchenkov Daniil Ruslanovich also showed excellent results and received the medal "For professionalism" (Table 1).
Table 1. Results of participants
| No. p / p | Participant | Competence | Evaluation of the performance of the competitive task on a 100-point scale | Evaluation of the performance of the competitive task on a 500-point scale | Result |
| Gerasimov E.A. | Software solutions for business | 37,75 | 549 | GOLD | |
| Yanovskaya Yu.V. | hairdressing art | 61,81 | 521 | BRONZE | |
| Gorelov M.A. | Welding technologies | 13,40 | 446 | ||
| Askarov R.A., Kosolapov A.I., Borzenkov I.N., Tarasova E.V., Grishchenkov D.R. | Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations | 81,76 | 510 | Medallion of Excellence |
The winners and prize-winners of the national championship will have the right to be recommended to the expanded WorldSkills Russia national team, whose members represent Russia at the world and European WorldSkills championships. In 2017, the WorldSkills Russia team will have to defend the honor Russian flag at the World Championships in Abu Dhabi in 2017, in 2018 at the European Championship EuroSkills 2018 in Budapest, and in 2019 at the WorldSkills Kazan 2019, which will be held in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan from 18 to 23 August.
According to the results of the National Championship of the Kursk region in medal standings took 17th place out of 51 regions that took part in the V National Championship (table 2).
Table 2. Medal standings.
WORLDSKILLS MOVEMENT
HOW WORLDSKILLS IS CHANGING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING SYSTEM IN RUSSIA
By 2025, Russia will face a labor shortage of 10 million people. In order not to lose competitiveness, by 2024 the country must move into the digital era, which both the authorities and business are talking about today. The key problem is the acute shortage of personnel for digital transformation. It is possible to grow them in the required quantity only by rebuilding the system of vocational education.
The Union "Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia)" sets new standards for modern working professions, changes the examination system in colleges and universities, and also acts as a link between employers and young employees. How the movement is changing the labor market in Russia - in the RIA Novosti longread.
Start. From Spanish workers to the digital economy
The WorldSkills International (WSI) movement originated in post-war Spain, which, like many countries at that time, was experiencing a shortage of workers. To revive interest in working professions, one of the initiators of the movement, Francisco Albert-Vidal, decided to hold a professional skills competition among young professionals. They learned about the competition from newspapers and traveled to Madrid from all over Europe at their own expense. I wanted to show myself and look at others.
photo MIA "Russia Today"
Simon Bartley, WSI President
“Albert-Vidal set himself three goals: to turn the competition participants into a role model for young people, to organize a meeting of expert and professional communities from different countries, and to give young professionals the opportunity to determine their position in the global labor market. All three goals remain relevant today.”
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Although the main mission of the movement has remained the same, changes in the labor market and the development of technology have created new challenges. Automation and the transition to a digital economy have created a need for a new type of workforce, whose abilities are measured by competencies, and not by diplomas and certificates.
Now WorldSkills needs to train not just a young competitive professional, but a specialist adapted to modern realities, ready to work side by side with smart devices and robotics, and constantly expand their knowledge.
First steps. Labor shortage and labor market paradoxes
Russia joined the WorldSkills movement in 2012. At that time, technical schools and colleges, despite attempts at reform, still seemed to many to be the lowest educational level, which is passed only by those who failed to enter a university and who did not dare to take the exam.
Reforming the system of secondary vocational education was the first task that faced the Union "Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia)". This is an important difference between the Russian traffic model and analogues in other countries.
If the conditional SwissSkills (“WorldSkills Switzerland”) or WorldSkills France act primarily as a center for attracting young professionals and preparing them for the championships, then the Russian division of WorldSkills seeks to reform the entire education system.
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Educational establishments in the country are still struggling to adapt to the realities of the modern labor market. Outdated curricula, teacher training principles that have not changed over the years, conflicting standards and obsolete equipment have led to a natural shortage of staff.
In the 1990s, many educational institutions lost contact with enterprises. Graduates acquired abstract skills for an abstract future, often from a bygone past. As a result, having gone to work, they were forced to retrain.
photo MIA "Russia Today"
Petr Nekrasov, IEK representative
“Students learn montage with pictures. They can't saw, they can't mount. The company faced a shortage of qualified personnel in the electrical industry.”
Evgeniya Dmitrieva, General Director of Kemppi Russia, a manufacturer of welding machines, speaks about the same problem.
photo "Kemppi Russia"
Evgenia Dmitrieva, General Director of Kemppi Russia, a manufacturer of welding machines
“College students were not prepared to work with our welding equipment. They asked to give them old transformer devices, because they were only familiar with such equipment.
Over the 5 years of WorldSkills' existence in Russia, the movement has been supported by dozens of partners. Among them are large state corporations such as Rostec, Roskosmos and Rosatom. They do not hide the fact that they are striving to enter the international market and are in dire need of personnel who would meet international standards.
Such specialists can be found among the participants of regional, national and international WorldSkills championships. State corporations also train specialists from the inside, relying on international professional training standards.
Another part of the partners are Russian representative offices of foreign companies, for example, robotics manufacturers Kuka and Festo. They not only need staff, but also try to popularize relatively new industries among schoolchildren and students.
To do this, together with WorldSkills, companies are opening robotic laboratories in the regions. Two years ago, the Russian representative office of Kuka was the first to introduce the Industrial Robotics competency into the WorldSkills line.
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The Union is trying to establish bilateral contact between educational institutions and companies.
photo MIA "Russia Today"
“We have a traditional gap between the employer and education, and the WorldSkills project is largely aimed at creating a bridge between business and the training system”
Preparing young professionals for the realities of the digital economy is another task that has not yet been solved. Together with the consulting company Boston Consulting Group, WorldSkills Russia studied the situation on the labor market in modern Russia. As the survey showed, at least 66% of enterprises fear that they will not be able to develop due to a lack of qualified specialists.
According to analysts, by 2025 Russia will face a shortage of 10 million people.
The trend is, in principle, characteristic of most secondary vocational education institutions in the world. The McKinsey study revealed a paradoxical situation: 50% of young people believe that the next stage of education after graduation increases their chances of finding a job.
Moreover, the majority of educational institutions (72%) believe that their graduates are ready for real work. However, only 43% of employers find specialists with the required skill level.
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Graduates of technical schools, colleges and universities come to enterprises with diplomas, grades and grades, but in fact diploma and certification are not confirmed.
photo of SC "Rosatom"
Alexey Ponomarenko, Director of the Center for International Programs of the Rosatom Corporate Academy
“An A in one college doesn't always equal an A in another. At the same time, it is extremely important that young people can perform
a specialist in a specialized task, which is often implemented on very expensive and high-precision equipment. Therefore professional
education should train specialists as quickly as possible with a flexible program and minimal costs”
Heads of educational institutions also drew attention to the imperfection of the personnel training system.
“The format for assessing the competencies of graduates needs to be changed, because the gap with the requirements of employers is growing”
Universities also notice the discrepancy between graduates and the demands of employers.
“Surveys of employers show that the system higher education limps across the country. Graduates need additional training and retraining”
Launch. New standards for the real sector of the economy
Demo exam
In 2014, the requirement to bring Russian colleges up to international standards for training specialists took shape at the government level.
And two years later, in Russia, they decided to test the format of the demonstration exam according to the WorldSkills methodology - new system state final certification, which allows you to test the skills of graduates in real production conditions.
The Ministry of Education and Science is already hinting that the technique may soon be officially approved as the main form of the GIA. The demonstration exam takes into account the real requirements of the labor market, and not conditional standards.
That is why the work of examinees is evaluated by independent experts from industry enterprises who are familiar with the real requirements in production or in the office.
Mikhail Sivtsev, Director of the Department of Secondary Vocational Education and Development of Professional Competences, FEFU
“The traditional exam is conducted by a teacher who taught students himself. Basically, this is the format of responses to theoretical questions. In accordance with the WorldSkills methodology, the student is examined by independent experts, and their practical skills are tested. The Test Project remains the same for everyone, so the luck factor is eliminated.”
The tasks for the demo exam are really hard to compare with the answers to the tickets. For several days, students perform the same tasks as participants in international WorldSkills competitions. Theory is kept to a minimum - it only reinforces the actions that need to be performed in real conditions on real equipment.
For some competencies, this bar is still too high. The head of WSR, Robert Urazov, calls the experiment with the demo exam in CAD engineering design at FEFU "educational hara-kiri." But on the other hand, such a model allows students to identify the missing skills - the so-called skills gaps. And schools, in turn, can adjust the curriculum while the system is being pilot tested.
"Demexam gives a clear picture of what equipment students need to prepare, taking into account the employer's requests"- notes Sivtsev.
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Thus, several problems are solved at once: the objectivity of the assessment, its adequacy, and the gap between the requirements of employers and the skills of graduates. Under these conditions, everyone wins. Educational institutions improve the training system, students develop skills for the real, not the abstract sector of the economy, and enterprises get access to a database of qualified personnel that meet all established standards.
Moreover, competencies are confirmed not by a diploma with grades in subjects, but by a Skills-passport listing specific skills - another WSR project. It indicates the modules that the student completed. The results of the participant are reflected in the graph, which also indicates the minimum and maximum acceptable results according to the standard.
Since January, more than 14,000 graduates of colleges and universities have already passed the demo exam. A pilot project on 73 competencies has started in 26 regions of Russia.
About 40 companies, including Rosatom, R-Pharm and IEK, have recognized Skills Passports as a tool for independent assessment of student preparation.
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Ivan Semyonov, Vice President for Human Resources and Organizational Development, R-Pharm
“Skills passports are an analogue of a pre-interview, which is conducted by an educational institution instead of an employer”
In some situations, demonstrating skills to international standards can cost a career. And here is one such true story.
Vasily Shabarov, a student of the technical school, has passed several stages of the WorldSkills championships. He became the winner in the "CNC Milling" competency at I regional championship WorldSkills Russia in the Leningrad region, and also participated in the national championship in Krasnodar. After defending his diploma, Shabarov got a job at one of the enterprises of the state corporation Rosatom. But he was expected by an ordinary level of salary and an ordinary complexity of tasks. No one took into account neither the certificates, nor the recommendations of the technical school, nor the results of participation in the WSR movement.
Vitaly Manzuk, Deputy Director of the Kirov Polytechnic College
“We invited the management of the enterprise to test Shabarov's competence at our site in the format of a demonstration exam. We have prepared workplace so that Shabarov can express himself to the fullest. He had to turn a milling part according to the assignment from any international WorldSkills championship at the choice of the factory workers. As a result, we settled on a competitive part from the 2015 World Championship in Sao Paulo. Vasily Shabarov spent 4 hours more than WS standards allow, but he coped with the task"
The part created by him was checked by the representatives of the enterprise in the central measuring laboratory. The result differed from the ideal set by the drawing in only three sizes out of more than 60 and only by 3-4 microns. An ordinary employee Vasily was transferred to another workshop with more modern equipment and a more complex level of production tasks.
Skills-passport
Skills-passport is more trusted by international experts. Konstantin Dolgikh, a graduate of the First Moscow Educational Complex, passed a demonstration exam in cooking and took part in several WorldSkills championships.
Now the pastry chef is getting additional education technologist in the culinary field and works in the French restaurant Ladurée in Moscow. So far, Dolgikh holds the position of a cook, but in the near future he should be promoted to the position of demi chef de party (an analogue of a shift foreman).
Konstantin Dolgikh, Pastry Chef at Ladurée Restaurant
“When I got a job at Ladurée, they looked at my resume, the results of the championships and the demo exam. The chef of the restaurant is French, and they have a very developed WorldSkills movement. When he found out that I participated in the championships and received a Skills-passport, he liked it. They took me right away"
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Robert Urazov, General Director of the Union "Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia)"
“Diplomas are becoming an anachronism. Now, even in consulting companies, the Big Four do not look at the diploma, but only take into account skills. We started the Skills Passport project to create a clear training benchmark and an understandable tool for recognizing skills in the education system.”
Vitaly Manzuk, Deputy Director of the Kirov Polytechnic College
“Who is, for example, a CNC machine tool adjuster? It turns out that today he is an engineer, and a worker, and a technologist-programmer, and a metrologist. We need to move away from the opposition of the concept of “technical engineer” to the integration of qualifications for specific competencies”
Future. Futurology and digitalization
The classification of competencies is another problem of the Russian professional training system. Representatives of many technical schools and universities admit that today specialties no longer have such clear boundaries as before. A conventional CNC machine operator can today control several machines in a factory at once and actually manage the production process. The new technological order is changing the very format of professions, and most of them receive a digital dimension.
WorldSkills Hi-Tech
In November, 31 competencies were presented at the IV National Championship of working professions in high-tech industries WorldSkills Hi-Tech in Yekaterinburg, but only four of them retained an exclusively analog part.
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Robert Urazov, General Director of the Union "Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia)"
“Even in welding there was a Robotic Welding module. Now the future is being born in the championship. A picture of the workplace that will arise in a few years appears.
FutureSkills
In parallel with the Hi-Tech direction, WorldSkills Russia is also creating other clusters of competencies. One of the areas of work is a kind of futurology, an attempt to predict what skills and professions specialists will need in the near future and how existing specialties will change.
The most important task is to avoid the emergence of a class of superfluous people whose abilities will be unclaimed in the digital economy.
