The Comparative Analysis of the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation Occupational Standard Development

The article advocates an integrated approach taken to bring coherence to up-to-date occupational and educational standards for the development of training programmes for engineering students. The present research deals with two countries—the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland—as case studies. The paper serves as a brief overview of the process of the occupational standard development in both countries, illustrates the ways in which occupational standards are structured both in Russia and in the UK and traces some global trends in their use.