Additional professional education: development of a research model
Authors: Hanzina E. G. 
Published: January 2025

Introduction. The problem of designing a research model for the functioning and development of additional professional education is discussed in the article. Additional professional education is considered as a sustainable system that will reflect the patterns of social development in the context of the transformation of the world order, outpacing socio-economic changes in various spheres of our society, thereby preventing socio-economic risks. The research model describes the functioning and development of the system  of additional professional education. An important aspect of additional professional education is the understanding of the tendency towards the emergence of new industries and, accordingly, new professions. An important aspect of additional professional education is also an understanding of the changing demand for a number of competencies and the set of technical and universal skills of employees of enterprises in different spheres of society, and the growing need for worker qualifications. An important aspect of additional professional education is also an understanding of the changing demand for a number of competencies and a set of technical and universal skills of employees of enterprises in different spheres of society, and an understanding of the growing need for the qualifications of workers.

Materials and Methods. Scientific works of domestic researchers became the material for research. the methodology of structural-functional analysis and systems approach are used in the work.

Results. The study recorded the characteristic features of the additional professional education system, which determined the principles for studying the functioning and development of additional professional education. The main goal is to understand the process of functioning and development of the system of additional professional education and to create tools for such understanding. An idea of the integrity of the system of additional professional education was obtained during the study. We have identified various types of connections between elements of additional professional education. We got an idea of its structure. We carried out the characteristics vertically and horizontally. We have established the system levels. We have outlined the basics of management. We have solved the problem of the purpose of the system of additional professional education and established the basis for its transformation. We have established the basis for solving the problem of the relationship between the functioning and development of the additional education system. We have revealed the role of internal and external regulators of human behavior in the system of additional professional education.

Discussion and Conclusion. We analyzed the work of domestic researchers, we established the key features of the system of additional professional education and developed a model of its sustainable functioning and development with the characteristics of the rapid development of the system. Such a system is capable, by forming the basis for the spheres of society, of outpacing the changes occurring in them.  A detailed development of the mechanism for the relationship between the functioning and development of the additional professional education system, as well as the establishment of the degree of “correlation” of social and economic systems, which prompts the formulation of the question of the dynamics of development of the system of additional professional education in the medium term, was designated by us as prospects for the development of science and practice.