Quality of professional training of IT specialists: strategy for interaction between employers and secondary vocational education

The article is devoted to the problem of the quality of vocational training of graduates of educational institutions of secondary vocational education in the field of information technology. The urgency of the problem is the fact that the popularity of secondary vocational education in the field of information technology is growing: every year a large number of middle-level specialists enter the labor market, who are required to be ready to work, adaptability to work's conditions, which minimizes the need to retrain them. There is a need to control the quality of education and the results of professional training of graduates. The article analyzes the documents regulating the educational process of secondary vocational education on the example of the specialty 09.02.07 Information systems and programming: the decree of the government of the Russian Federation On the approval of the state educational standard of secondary vocational education, the procedure for organizing educational activities in educational programs of secondary vocational education, order of the Ministry of Labor of Russia On the approval of the list of the 50 most in demand in the labor market, new and promising professions requiring secondary vocational education, federal state educational standard for the specialty 09.02.07 Information systems and programming, the order of the Ministry of Labor of Russia On the approval of the professional standard Programmer. The conclusion is made that educational institutions have the ability to ensure the quality of vocational training if they involve employers and specialists from the industry close to the educational program in the educational process. However, educational institutions should involve external, independent experts from the industry to organize the educational process and monitor its results.