On 11 April 2012 within the framework of the Exhibition “Education. Career.” an inter-sectoral round table named Professional Training was held. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan Gulnara Akhmadeeva made a report “On the effectiveness of professional training of specialists for the industrial sector in accordance with an employer’s requirements”.
The following issues requiring joint discussion and solution were specified:
• lack of professional standards and specific requirements to the competence of an employee;
• low social significance of elementary and intermediate vocational education;
• nonconformity of the professional training system to the real needs of the economy and labor market;
• aging of the educational staff and specialists of enterprises;
• low salary of teachers and industrial trainers, etc.