Life pass to the Greater Moscow school students

The «Life pass to the Greater Moscow school students» project means implementation of vocational training programs that would give students an opportunity to get a profession together with general education.

Target audience: school students of the 8-9th year

The training is free for the students paid for by the regional budget.

Students acquire professional competences outside of school in vocational and higher education organizations of the Moscow Region.

After completing the training and successfully passing a qualifying exam a student is issued a standard form professional certificate.

Key events of the project:

1.     The list of the «pilot» areas in the Moscow Region is prepared. Volokolamsk urban district, Korolyov u.d., Kashira u.d., Kolomna u.d., Naro-Fominsk u.d., Odintsovo u.d.) for testing the project events.

2.    The models for vocational training of students in the Moscow Region were set up:

school-based vocational training;

trade/vocational school based training;

vocational training based on municipal «inter-school training cites», or municipal extracurricular education centers.

3.    The list of recommended professions was established considering regional specifics;

4.    The regulatory base for the project implementation was developed.

5.    The methodological materials for the project were developed

6.    The career guidance toolset, focused on the list of professions recommended for vocational training according to the regional specifics, and an automated professional testing system were developed;

7.     Vocational education curriculums for the school students were developed;

8.    The financing scheme for the vocational education institutions in the Moscow Region slated to provide the vocational training programs for school students was developed;

9.    The feedback, i.e. an option to ask the school students and their parents questions about the project events, including on the websites of the vocational training institutions’ websites

Beneficiary’s story

Maksim Suslov, 19, graduate of Yevseyevskaya General School in Pavlovsky Posad u.d.: 
 

— I couldn’t choose the trade I was going to study for a long time. I was doing a lot of career guidance tests. Then I started going for training to the Pavlovsky Posad professional school under the «Life pass to the Greater Moscow school students» program. I was training there for two years. My fear of unfamiliar equipment and possible failure passed soon; my teachers helped me with that. I got an Electrician qualification together with my high school diploma. My studies in the professional school were exciting and useful for me. I started with basic circuits, but later learned to do complex wirework and program logic controllers. «Life pass» is a good career start. I went for apprenticeship in Idensalmi (Finland), together with other guys. I learned a lot. Now I know what I want, and what I should strive to achieve. This field of work is interesting for me. Now I’m a 1st year student in the Pavlovsky Posad professional school. I study electrical and electromechanical equipment operation and maintenance.