On December 29, 2021, the Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov signed the Decree “On declaring 2022 as the Year of Modernization of Vocational Education, Decent Working Conditions and Labour Dynasties, the Republic of Bashkortostan”. The main tasks outlined in the Decree are: organizing more intensive work with the vocational education system, creating decent working conditions for their employees and promoting vocational professions.

The system of secondary vocational education today is in great demand both by the labour market and school graduates. Its main goal is to ensure that graduates, having come to the factories, already know how to operate on modern machines.

The Republic of Bashkortostan is one of the leaders in Russia in terms of the number of institutions of secondary vocational education. There are 96 colleges in the region, the largest number in the country. The system of vocational education, and, first and foremost, its training and production facilities, requires modernization. To that end, the governance of the Republic plans to open a federal centre for advanced training of vocational education workers in Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan. Its opening will become an additional incentive for the development and strengthening of colleges and training schools in Bashkortostan.