Higher education: deconstructing professionalism

Abstract

Authors focus their attention upon higher education – labor market incoordination and institutional forms of compensating the latter. The inconsistency means inability of the labor market to satisfy the need of highly qualif ied labor force in spite of the fact that graduates with diplomas are over-produced in relevant areas. According to the experts (employers and some educators), the majority of recruits is not capable of performing skilfully in areas of their specialization without additional training in its various forms, which are called in this paper «Education-2». The authors argue that its growing popularity ref lects socially signif icant shift within Russian educational policy. The growing signif icance of «Education-2» not only ref lects the expansion of charges in sphere of education in general, but also constitutes a new approach to the contents of professional training. The latter becomes customer-oriented and at the same time more dependent upon repetitive institutionalized re-training.