Improving the system of training, retraining and advanced training of personnel is a priority issue of the state personnel policy in our country. Among the main guidelines are training in the most popular specialties and professions on the labor market, interaction with personnel customers, updating the content of educational programs and a practice-oriented attitude.

The system of additional education for adults is quite flexible, mobile and rapidly developing. With its help, the country is able to provide various industries with qualified personnel for personnel support in the context of innovative development.

The need for new in-demand specialties, knowledge, skills for high-quality work, the desire to remain in demand on the labor market are now the main motive for students to master educational programs. There are 358 retraining specialties, 10 majors, 26 areas for advanced training of managers and specialists.

Enterprises carry out training, retraining, advanced training in most blue-collar professions, and there are about 3,700 such professions. In addition, the satisfaction of the cognitive needs of students, as well as the formation of competencies in a certain area of professional activity, is carried out within the framework of educational programs of training courses and targeted courses.

The content of educational programs is adjusted on an ongoing basis taking into account the needs of the labor market. In addition to the Ministry of Education, 24 republican government bodies participate in the development of educational standards and curricula for retraining specialties.

More than four thousand executives, teachers and specialists of the education system undergo training at the National Institute for Higher Education every year at the expense of the republican budget. In total, there are more than 150 groups of students. Most of the groups of students are trained in universities, which proves its effectiveness and allows them to delve even deeper into practical aspects. Thanks to numerous advanced training programs (more than 80) and their annual updates, the educational activities of the NIHE cover all aspects of the higher education system.

Svetlana Kovchur, Head of the Department of Additional Education for Adults of the Main Directorate of Professional Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced the participants of the thematic press conference in BELTA to the details of the industry system of additional education for adults. She stated: "Government bodies and other government organizations, within their competence, create industry systems of continuous professional education for managers and specialists. In accordance with Article 248 of the Education Code, the system of additional education for adults includes 16 educational programs, which are implemented in the country by about 400 educational institutions of various types and kinds and other organizations that carry out educational activities. Every year, more than 60 thousand teaching staff master educational programs for improving the qualifications of managers and specialists alone."