Abstract:

The development of Far East territories is Russia's national priority, focused on global competitiveness in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Over the next 10 years in the Far East, more than 800 investment projects are planned and over 110,000 new high-tech jobs will be created.

The system of vocational education is obliged to respond promptly to current and future requests for changing labor market, technological changes, and to train due number of demanded specialists with sufficient level of professional skills.

The purpose of the study was to overcome the limitations and increase the efficiency of the education system functioning from the perspective of aligning the output of the education system with the needs of the economies of the Far East. The research methodology uses a quantitative and qualitative approach to forecasting and is based on a comparative analysis of the results of the macroeconomic methodology for forecasting the demand for regional economies in personnel and the methodology for the education system output forecasting.

The following tasks were implemented during the research:
- an assessment of the demand for personnel in 9 regions of the Far East for the medium and long term,
- a comparison of the received personnel needs data and the education system output was made in providing these personnel needs by education levels and educational specialties,
- the development of recommendations in the form of admission quotas for the education system (how many specialists for which education specialty it is necessary to train in which region).

One of the main results obtained was the developed of personnel training model to ensure the advanced development of the Far East regions.

The received forecasts of the education system activity allowed to evaluate:
• how much training in universities and colleges in the regions of the Far East provides staffing needs by quantity of vocational education;
• What education specialties and occupations are lacking in training,
• What are the limitations in the vocational education system of the Far East for ensuring the advanced development of the macro region;
• Other sources of demand coverage, including labor foreign and internal migration, and retraining of the adult population were defined.

Based on the results received, organizational solutions for managing the admission flows for the education system were formulated in the form of methodological recommendations for determining instruments to remove restrictions and the efficiency of vocational education and training of personnel for key sectors of the economy of each subject of the Far East.

Keywords:

Vocational education system, education system functioning, education system output forecasting, personnel needs, macroeconomic methodology.