Problem setting. Current trends in education, related to the social importance of the development of human resources in science and education, ready for continuous professional growth and mobility require modernization of the professional development of research and teaching staff, which entails the addition of existing mechanisms with new formats and technologies of formal , non-formal, informal learning, implementation of flexible modular training programs.
Analysis of recent research. Research on the professional development of employees can be found in the works of such scholars in the field of labor law: M.G. Alexandrov, A.S. Barsky, Y.M. Burnyagina, N.M. Vapnyarchuk, K.M. Gusov, V.V. Zhernakov, V.L. Kostyuk, O.M. Krymska, O.S. Pashkov, K.M. Plesnyov, O.I. Protsevsky, A.M. Slyusar, V.I. Shcherbyna, O.M. Yaroshenko, and etc.
The purpose of this article is to consider the issues of professional development of research and teaching staff of higher education institutions.
Article’s main body. Orientation of Ukraine to the innovative economy, state-initiated changes in the system of vocational education (level model of higher education, employer participation in the development and implementation of programs, etc.). Require a new quality of scientific and pedagogical activities, and, accordingly, ways of training and professional development of personnel for higher education. Effective professional development will help improve the employment potential of staff in higher education. One of the traditional mechanisms for the development of research and teaching staff of higher education institutions is the system of advanced training, represented by both internal in the institution of higher education and field additional professional educational programs. The article considers the problem of formation of actual directions of professional development of scientific and pedagogical workers of institutions of higher education. The main directions of professional development of scientific and pedagogical workers on the basis of the analysis of a situation in system of professional development of scientific and pedagogical workers, normative-legal base are allocated. The conclusion about necessity of updating of the maintenance and forms of realization of programs of advanced training of scientific and pedagogical workers, development of new courses, educational modules in the context of the allocated directions is made; increasing the role of research and teaching staff, management staff of higher education institutions in the formation of orders for professional development programs of research and teaching staff of higher education.
Conclusions and prospects for the development. We must emphasize that in addition to instrumental, technological support of innovative system of professional development, taking into account all forms and types of education, it is necessary to develop validation of independent non-formal, informal learning and certification of modern programs of additional vocational education. We see that this should be regulated in the context of the development and adoption of the Law of Ukraine «On Adult Education».
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