Kravchenko L. Strategic planning for the development of the regional system of vocational education as an innovative mechanism of state administration

The object of the study: formation and implementation of the state management strategy for the development and reform of the regional system of professional and technical education. Purpose: to substantiate the theoretical and applied provisions of the features of strategic planning for the development of the regional system of professional and technical education and, based on the conducted analysis, to determine ways to improve this mechanism of state management at the regional level. Methods: historical and logical; system model; structural and functional; comparative. Results: an important scientific task was solved, which consists in the development of theoretical and applied principles of strategic planning for the development of the regional VET system, aimed at improving its use as a mechanism of state management of the industry in the process of its modernization. Novelty: for the first time, a comprehensive presentation of the strategic planning of the development of the regional system of vocational and technical education as an integrated mechanism of state management of the industry in the form of a system-model construction, which integrates the main dimensions of the studied phenomenon through the goal-setting, process-activity and organizational-functional models; strategic planning for the development of the regional system of vocational and technical education is defined not only as a function and mechanism, but also as a separate object of state administration at the regional level, the institutionalization of which takes place on the basis of the formation of the Strategy for the Development of the Regional System of Vocational and Technical Education and related management organizational and goal-setting procedures for the preparation of strategic programs and projects at the regional level; improved: innovative mechanisms of strategic planning for the development of the regional VET system; the characteristics of the regional system of professional and technical education with the author's definition of it as a component of the market of educational services and as an object of strategic planning; received further development: the conceptual basis and research methodology of strategic planning for the development of the regional VET system based on the justification of the integrative role of the system-model methodology; analysis of the European experience in determining the directions of the most effective improvement of the strategic planning of the development of the regional VET system. Implemented in the activities of: General Directorate of Vocational Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; Department of Economic Development of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration; Department of Education and Science of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration; KZVO "Dniprov Academy of Continuing Education" of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council"; Executive Committee of the Kryvyi Rih City Council; Federation of employers' organizations of Dnipropetrovsk region. Fields of use: state authorities.