Dual education in Ukraine: from legal support to implementation problems

Abstract

The current situation in the labor market makes it necessary to solve the issues related to providing its employees with the appropriate level of knowledge and skills that would meet the requirements stipulated for young professionals by their employers, therefor the issue of introducing a dual form of education is relevant. The purpose of the paper is to study the problematic issues that arise in the course of introduction of the dual form of education in higher education establishment and state of legislation regulating these issues. The paper analyzes the issues related to the decline in confidence in higher education, provides data on the admission campaign for the applicants of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The need for the introduction of a dual form of education is justified, including data on the interest of students in this form of education. The authors of the paper analyze the current legislation on the regulation of dual education, in particular, identify the need for amendments to be made in the regulations, first of all, need to consider the issue of improving labor legislation, namely regulation of labor relations between employee (the person studying) and employer under the time of obtaining a dual form of education and establishing a number of guarantees for such employees. The term "labor function" should be introduced in labor legislation and should be based on a competency-based approach, as well as guaranteeing the right to remuneration of employees, who study according to a dual form of education. Yet, there is a need to continue the implementation of the Government Concept for implementation of dual education. The authors of the paper also cover and analyze a number of issues that arise in the course of implementation of the dual form of education: organizational, educational and methodological and psychological.