Forecasting the Development of Professional Education

Relevance. The article deals with the problems associated with determining the prospects for the development of vocational education. Forecasting in the system of vocational education is determined by the factors of social development, which include the volume of the total national product, pace of production automation, number of skilled workers in the total amount employed in social production, changes in occupations over the course of a person’s life, emergence of new areas in the economic sphere that require special educational training, and growth rate of knowledge.