International Worldskills Championship. Regional coordination center of WorldSkills in the Kursk region. Voltage at sites

The Russian national team took first place in the team event at the WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017 World Championships. Russia won 11 medals and 21 medallions for professionalism. The Russian team took 5th place in the medal standings. 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 confirmed its leadership in six professions. Gold medals were received by members of the national team of sitessia in the competencies of IT solutions for business, Web development, Jewelry, Refrigeration and air conditioning systems, Network and system administration, Freight forwarding.

Four silver medals Russia won in the following competencies: Mobile robotics, Hairdressing, Visual merchandising and window display, Truck maintenance.

The only “bronze” went to Russia in the competence of Stone-cutting. The “Best of nation” award as the best representative of the country was given to 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 WorldSkills championships are awarded to competitors who have fully completed the task and demonstrated high-quality average level professional training.

The competition took place from 14 to 19 October at the Adnec International Exhibition Center in Abu Dhabi. 1,300 competitors from 77 countries took part in the World Championship. A total of 52 competencies were presented at WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017. The Russian national team took part in all disciplines for the first time.

The sitessia national team, consisting of 58 competitors, represents its country at the world championship for the third time: for the first time, Russia competed at the world championship in 2013 in Leipzig, and for the second time in the Brazilian Sao Paulo, from where it returned home with 6 medallions for professionalism.

As part of the closing ceremony of WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017, the World Skills Championship flag 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 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, CEO Rosatom State Corporation Alexey 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. Next, the championship flag will go to the International Space Station and return to Earth on February 27, 2018. After this, the flag will cover 33 previous host cities and all 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, from where it will go to the opening ceremony of the WorldSkills Kazan 2019 championship.

The WorldSkills Competition in 2019 will be held in Russia. This decision was taken by a vote of the general assembly at the World Championships in Sao Paulo in 2015. Kazan beat 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 runners-up of the 44th WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017 (Russian team):

Four days of competition are behind us at the Worldskills Competition 2017. 32 of the 58 participants of the Russian team returned home with awards. Our team has 6 gold, 4 silver and one bronze medals. Another 21 participants took the medallion for professionalism.

The WorldSkills International (WSI) movement began in Spain in 1947, at a time of great need for skilled workers. The first championships were held with the aim of popularizing blue-collar professions and increasing their prestige. Today competitions are held every two years; for Russia this was the third world championship. The Russians first competed 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 well is our huge victory,” summed up Deputy Prime Minister Olga, who came to support the participants.

IN medal standings Russia came in fifth, after China, Korea, Switzerland and Brazil. In the overall team competition, Russia came first.

For the first time, Russians competed in all 52 skills. The competition was held in six blocks of professions: construction, IT technology, art and design, industrial production, service sector and civil transport maintenance.

In addition, Russian masters participated in presentation competencies, the awards for which are not yet taken into account in the overall medal standings of the team.

Will not return as ordinary employees

The Russian team included participants aged 18-25 years. Juniors aged 14-16 years competed in a separate competition - for the first time in the history of the world championship.

Russia was represented by participants from 22 regions of the country, Alexey Tymchikov, technical director of the WorldSkills Russia union, told Gazeta.Ru. According to him, the task was to make them all feel like a team, and not a representative of any individual Russian entity.

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 composition, which included the winners of regional championships. Only one participant had 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 home regions. They also underwent training abroad, improving not only their professional skills, but also English language, underwent psychological training, learning to work under stress.

In addition, during their classes they received knowledge on work organization and time management. After such “manual” preparation, they can enter the business as managers and start their own business. “I don’t think any of them will return to the profession as an ordinary employee,” he believes.

The winner in the “refrigeration and air conditioning” competency, Polyakov from Kazan, is not yet planning to go into business; he said that he is already working at a factory in his hometown. He prepared for the world championship long and hard, but not in Tatarstan, but in St. Petersburg, since that is where the training center for his competence is located. The World Championships in Abu Dhabi are not his first competitions international level— last year Vadim won EuroSkills in Sweden.

According to him, competitors did not pose a threat. Rather, I had to fight with myself. At times it seemed like there wasn’t enough time for the task, but we managed to pull ourselves together, do the best we could and win. “There are always chances to win,” Vadim is sure.

Worldskills Russia

Voltage at 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 best. 37 people demonstrated their skills in restaurant service, among whom was Russian Natasha Baranova from Chelyabinsk.

Everyone who came to Worldskills tried to prove that they are the best in their field. True, sometimes incidents happened on the sites. This is how the participants in 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 precisely this material (about 600 tons were needed) that was periodically not enough to complete a landscape design task - arranging an Arabian courtyard, says the CEO of WorldSkills Russia. According to him, the organizers tried to quickly correct the shortcomings.

There was a fierce 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 or the other.

In some competencies, the tasks turned out to be more difficult than expected. For example, in “mechatronics” instead of non-bulk materials that needed to be sorted, bulk materials appeared, 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 works” competency. According to her, it was difficult because the experts were constantly distracted, and because of this there was not enough time. “They realized that I was a strong participant and deliberately distracted me,” the girl said.

The 40-degree heat also played a role. We had to buy additional fans for the site - the spaces were large, and the air conditioners couldn't cope.

Not only the contestants, but also the experts had to fight for victory. The participant of the national team in the field of robotics was given zero points for completing the module, although the equipment manufacturers at the site assured that the Russian guys have one of the best robots. I had to appeal the judges’ decision, says Urazov. As a result, Andrey Dyubanov was able to take silver in this competency. Participants from Korea received gold.

Teachers need to be trained

The guys at the national team meeting with Olga Golodets admitted that they tried to do everything they could, but calmly talked about stronger competitors.

For example, certain categories had their own favorites: in technical specialties, countries such as Japan, Korea and China were most often mentioned. The chefs had a noticeable superiority among the culinary powers - Italy, France and, of course, Russia. “It was difficult. According to my assumptions, the winners should have been Asians, but this year it turned out differently. The best work was done by Europeans and Russians,” noted Sergey Khrkhryan, a member of the Russian team from the Rostov region.

When Golodets asked whether WorldSkills standards could be applied in Russian colleges, the young specialist replied that first, teachers need to be trained. According to him, educational institutions lack equipment and educational materials. “To be honest, I learned from books from 1983,” Khrkhryan noted, adding that he was ready to pass on his experience. The same 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,” said the participant.

According to him, colleges need to look for new approaches to teaching - moving away from the old technologies of laying tiles on clay.

Vitaly Bondarenko, a participant in the “Carpentry” competency, named the French and Hungarians among his main rivals. “I definitely defeated myself,” he added.

The guys admitted that they were ready to share their experience in their regions. “The championship was over, and I’m very happy, because what I couldn’t work on myself, I can put into the next contestant (participant next championship, which will take place in two years in Kazan, Russia - approx.). His victory will also be my victory,” said Boris Satarov, a participant in the “Turning work on numerically controlled machines” competency.

Russian participants will have to analyze their results, mistakes and shortcomings, but they all adequately represented the country at the professional skills championship. 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 this kind of work in a week or two, and we will analyze everything together,” added Golodets.

According to her, all Russian colleges will be able to switch to Worldskills international standards within two years. So far, only half (49.7%) of them have done this.

“Our task is for everyone to cross over. So that all colleges have necessary equipment making sure that all teachers are world-class competent is a major challenge,” she said.

The next championship will be hosted by Russia. WorldSkills Kazan will be held in the capital of Tatarstan at the end of August 2019.

The final of the National Championship “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia) is the largest professional skills competition in Russia according to WorldSkills standards among secondary vocational students educational institutions aged 16 to 22 years, promoting the professional guidance of youth and the introduction of the best international practices into the domestic education system.

The national championship competitions are held in the competencies of 6 blocks of professions: construction, information and communication technologies, creativity and design, industrial production, services and civil transport services.

In 2017, the final of the V National Championship “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia) was held in Krasnodar from May 15 to 19 at the Expograd South exhibition and congress complex. Students and schoolchildren took part in professional skills competitions in 109 basic and 4 demonstration competencies. A record number of competitors and experts gathered for the Championship - more than 3 thousand people. For the first time, the geography of the competition covered almost the entire country, with 84 regions joining the championship movement.

More than 1,200 competitors, including international ones, took part in the final of the V National Championship “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia) in Krasnodar. 950 students from secondary professional organizations and 300 schoolchildren competing in the III National JuniorSkills Championship competed in the finals of the National Championship. The performances of adult and young participants were assessed by 1,400 experts.

As part of the finals of the V National Championship “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia), the I Open Eurasian Championship was held in Krasnodar. Students from Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan competed for awards in a separate medal competition for 31 competencies. 59 representatives of three countries of the Eurasian space competed along with Russian competitors.

For the first time, a team of participants from the Kursk region was represented at the National Championship. Our team included the winners of qualifying competitions in 4 competencies: Hairdressing (student of KGPK Yanovskaya Yulia Vladimirovna), Software solutions for business (student of KSPK Gerasimov Evgeniy Aleksandrovich), Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (students of KATC Askarov Ruslan Alisherovich, Kosolapov Alexey Igorevich, Borzenkov Igor Nikolaevich , Tarasova Elena Valentinovna, Grishchenkov Daniil Ruslanovich) and Welding technologies (student of the ZhPK Gorelov Mikhail Aleksandrovich).

The official delegation of the Kursk region was represented by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education and Science O.A. Vorobyova. and the head of the Regional Coordination Center, director of the Zheleznogorsk Mining and Metallurgical College, A.N. Shebanov. who took part in the events of the Business Program of the Championship, to which key figures from Russian politics, business and non-profit organizations were invited.

Current development issues were discussed at the business program vocational education in the country, such as:

• Implementation of the priority project “Workforce for advanced technologies.
• Regional staffing strategy.
• Approaches to modernizing 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 in the participation of Russian regions in a pilot project to introduce a demonstration exam into the State Examination System of colleges and technical schools.

As part of the competitive events, an Expert Championship was held at which competency experts from various educational organizations of vocational education in the Kursk region underwent advanced training using WorldSkills methods: 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. (KGPC), Tarasova L.A. (KGPC), Tolmacheva I.N. (KGPC).

The II “Expert Championship” was a training course to prepare for participation in the National Championship, which covered the following issues:

• organization of WorldSkills championships and their structure;
• system of end-to-end monitoring of the results of participants’ performances at the Championships, Qualifying rounds and Qualifying 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 Project, Infrastructure Sheet, 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 Project, Infrastructure Sheet, development of evaluation criteria) Flying Bird

Based on the results of the training, testing was carried out on knowledge of WSR standards and regulatory documents and defense of the project. All participants were given training certificates.

Participants of the Championship from the Kursk region showed high results at the National Championship and, following the results of the competition, many of them received well-deserved awards. Student OBPOU KGPK (director Morozova O.I.) Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Gerasimov took 1st place in the National Championship in the “Software Solutions for Business” competency and 1st place in the First Championship held there open championship countries of the Euro-Asian Commonwealth in the same competency, student of OBPOU KGPC (director Morozova O.I.) Yuliya Vladimirovna Yanovskaya took 3rd place among the participants competing in the competency “Hairdressing Art”, and students of OBPOU KATC (director Saltanov A.V.) Askarov Ruslan Alisherovich , Alexey Igorevich Kosolapov, Igor Nikolaevich Borzenkov, Elena Valentinovna Tarasova, Daniil Ruslanovich Grishchenkov also showed excellent results and received the medal “For Professionalism” (Table 1).

Table 1. Participants' results

Winners and prize-winners of the national championship will have the right to be recommended to the expanded composition of the WorldSkills Russia national team, whose participants 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 world championship WorldSkills Kazan 2019, which will be held in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan from August 18 to 23.

According to the results of the National Championship, Kursk region medal count took 17th place out of 51 regions that took part in the V National Championship (Table 2).

Table 2. Medal count.

WORLDSKILLS MOVEMENT

HOW WORLDSKILLS IS CHANGING THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN RUSSIA

By 2025, Russia will face a workforce shortage of 10 million people. In order not to lose competitiveness, by 2024 the country must move into the digital era, which both 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 restructuring the vocational education system.

The Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia) Union sets new standards for modern blue-collar 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 labor shortage. To revive interest in blue-collar 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 competitions from the newspapers and traveled to Madrid from all over Europe at their own expense. I wanted to show myself and look at others.

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Simon Bartley, President of WSI

“Albert-Vidal set himself three goals: to turn competition participants into role models for young people, to organize a meeting of the expert and professional community from different countries and enable young professionals to determine their position in the global labor market. All three goals remain relevant today."

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Although the movement's core mission has remained the same, changes in the labor market and advances in 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, rather than 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. Personnel shortages 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 a lower educational level, which only those who failed to enter a university and who did not dare take the Unified State Exam go through.

Reforming the system of secondary vocational education was the first task that faced the Union “Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia)”. This is an important difference Russian model movements from analogues in other countries.

If the conventional SwissSkills (“WorldSkills Switzerland”) or WorldSkills France act primarily as a center for attracting young professionals and preparing them for championships, then the Russian division of WorldSkills seeks to reform the entire education system.

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Educational establishments in the country it is still difficult to adapt to the realities of the modern labor market. Outdated curricula, principles of teacher training that have not changed for years, conflicting standards and obsolete equipment have led to a natural shortage of personnel.

In the 1990s, many educational institutions lost contact with enterprises. Graduates acquired abstract skills for an abstract future, often from a long-gone past. As a result, upon entering the workforce, they were forced to retrain.

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Petr Nekrasov, representative of IEK

“Students learn editing using pictures. They cannot saw, they cannot assemble. The company is faced with a shortage of qualified personnel in the electrical installation industry."

The general director of the welding machine manufacturer Kemppi Russia, Evgeniya Dmitrieva, speaks about the same problem.

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Evgenia Dmitrieva, General Director of the welding machine manufacturer Kemppi Russia

“College students were not prepared to work with our welding equipment. They asked to give them old transformer equipment, 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, Roscosmos 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 participants in regional, national and international WorldSkills championships. State corporations also train specialists from within, relying on global standards of professional training.

Another part of the partners are Russian representative offices of foreign companies, for example, robotics manufacturers Kuka and Festo. They not only need personnel, but are also trying to popularize relatively new industries among schoolchildren and students.

To achieve this, companies together with WorldSkills are opening robotics 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 two-way contact between educational institutions and companies.

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“We have a traditional gap between employers 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 personnel shortage of 10 million people.

The trend is, in principle, characteristic of most educational institutions of secondary vocational education in the world. A McKinsey study revealed a paradoxical situation: 50% of young people believe that the next level of education after leaving school 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 level of qualifications.

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Graduates of technical schools, colleges and universities come to enterprises with diplomas, grades and ranks, but in fact the diploma and certification are not confirmed.

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Alexey Ponomarenko, Director of the Center for International Programs of the Rosatom Corporate Academy

“An A grade received at one college is not always equal to the grade received at another. At the same time, it is extremely important for young people to be able to
a specialist in a specialized task, which is often implemented using very expensive and high-precision equipment. Therefore professional
education should prepare specialists as quickly as possible with a flexible program and minimal costs"

The heads of educational institutions also drew attention to the imperfection of the personnel training system.

“The format for assessing graduates’ competencies needs to be changed, because the gap with the requirements of employers is growing”

Universities also notice that graduates do not meet the demands of employers.

“Surveys of employers show that the higher education system across the country is lame. Graduates need additional training and retraining"

Launch. New standards for the real sector of the economy

Demo exam

In 2014, the demand to bring Russian colleges to world standards for training specialists took shape at the government level.

And two years later in Russia they decided to test the format of a demonstration exam using 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 methodology may soon be officially approved as the main form of state assessment. The demonstration exam takes into account the real requirements of the labor market, and not conventional standards.

That is why the work of examinees is assessed 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 Competencies of the Far Eastern Federal University

“The traditional exam is administered by a teacher who taught the students himself. Basically, this is a format for answering theoretical questions. In accordance with the WorldSkills methodology, the student is examined by independent experts, and their practical skills are checked. The competition task remains the same for everyone, so the luck factor is eliminated."

The questions for the demo exam are really difficult to compare with the answers on the tickets. Over the course of several days, students perform the same tasks as participants in the international WorldSkills championships. Theory is kept to a minimum - it only reinforces 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 a demo exam in CAD engineering design at FEFU “educational hara-kiri.” But this model allows students to identify missing skills - the so-called skills gaps. And educational institutions, in turn, can adjust curriculum while the system is undergoing pilot testing.

“The demo exam gives a clear picture of what equipment students need to be trained on, 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. In these conditions, everyone wins. Educational institutions are improving the training system, students are developing skills for the real, rather than abstract, sector of the economy, and enterprises gain access to a base of qualified personnel who 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 has completed. The participant's results are reflected in a graph, which also indicates the minimum and maximum acceptable results for the standard.

Since January, more than 14,000 graduates of colleges and universities have already passed the test demo exam. A pilot project for 73 competencies 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 training.

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Ivan Semenov, vice president for personnel management and organizational development of the R-Pharm enterprise

“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 your career. And here is one such real story.

Technical school student Vasily Shabarov completed several stages of the WorldSkills championships. He became the winner in the competency “Milling on CNC machines” at the 1st regional WorldSkills Russia championship in 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 to have an ordinary salary level and an ordinary complexity of tasks. No one took into account either the diplomas, or the recommendations of the technical school, or 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 could express himself to the fullest. He had to turn a milling part according to instructions from any international WorldSkills championship of the choice of the factory workers. As a result, we settled on a competitive item from the 2015 World Championships in Sao Paulo. Vasily Shabarov spent 4 hours more than WS standards allow, but completed the task"

Representatives of the company checked the part he created in the central measuring laboratory. The result differed from the ideal specified in the drawing in only three sizes out of more than 60 and by only 3-4 microns. Ordinary employee Vasily was transferred to another workshop with more modern equipment and a more complex level of production tasks.

Skills passport

A skills passport inspires more confidence among international experts. Graduate of the First Moscow educational complex Konstantin Dolgikh passed a demonstration exam in cooking, and also took part in several WorldSkills championships.

Now the pastry chef receives additional education culinary technologist and works at the French restaurant Ladurée in Moscow. For now, Dolgikh holds the position of cook, but in the near future he should be promoted to the position of demi chef de partie (analogous to a shift foreman).

Konstantin Dolgikh, pastry chef at Ladurée restaurant

“When I got hired at Ladurée, they looked at my resume, the results of championships and demo exams. 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 the Big Four consulting companies they don’t look at the diploma, but only take into account skills. We started working on the Skills passport project to create a clear training guideline 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 operator? It turns out that today he is an engineer, a worker, a software engineer, and a metrologist. We need to move away from opposing the concept of “technical engineer” to integrating qualifications for specific competencies.”

Future. Futurology and digitalization

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 today can control several machines at once in a factory and actually manage the production process. The new technological structure is changing the very format of professions, and most of them are gaining a digital dimension.

WorldSkills Hi-Tech

In November, at the IV National Championship of blue-collar professions in high-tech industries WorldSkills Hi-Tech in Yekaterinburg, 31 competencies were presented, but only four of them retained exclusively the 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 at the championship. A picture is emerging of the workplace that will appear in a few years.”

FutureSkills

In parallel with the Hi-Tech direction, WorldSkills Russia is creating other competency clusters. One of the areas of work is a kind of futurology, an attempt to predict what skills and professions will be needed by specialists in the near future and how existing specialties will change.

The main task is to avoid the appearance of a class extra people, whose abilities will be unclaimed in the digital economy.

The Russian national team took first place in total points at the World Championships of Professional Skills. The results of the competition were announced today.

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In total, Russia won 11 medals and 21 medallions for professionalism, becoming fifth in the medal standings. The competition took place from 14 to 19 October at the Adnec International Exhibition Center in Abu Dhabi. 1,300 competitors from 77 countries took part in the championship. A total of 52 competencies were presented at WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017. The Russian national team took part in all disciplines for the first time.

Medals

Gold medals received by participants of the WorldSkills Russia national team in the competencies of IT solutions for business, Web development, Jewelry making, Refrigeration and air conditioning systems, Network and system administration, Freight forwarding.

Four silver medals Russia won in the following competencies: Hairdressing, Visual merchandising and window display, Truck maintenance.

The only one bronze medal went to Russia in the competence of Stone cutting.

The winner of the gold medal in web development received the “Best of nation” award as the best representative of the country 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 competitors who have fully completed the task and demonstrated a high-quality average level of professional training.

Past and future championships

The WorldSkills Russia national team, consisting of 58 competitors, represents their country at the world championship for the third time: for the first time, Russia competed at the world championship in 2013 in Leipzig, and for 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 world championship flag 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. Decision on WorldSkills 2019 in Russia was adopted by vote of the General Assembly at the World Championships in Sao Paulo in 2015. Kazan beat Paris and Belgian Charleroi. 45th championship peace will pass from August 29 to September 3, 2019.