Article by Centre Staff on Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education in BRICS Countries Published in the Journal ‘Voprosy Obrazovaniya’
The study was conducted by staff members of the Centre for Vocational Education and Skills Development,Vera Maltseva andMaksim Nikitin, in international co-authorship withSantosh Mehrotra, Visiting Professor at the University of Bath (United Kingdom), andLi Jun, Associate Professor at the Institute of Vocational Education at Tongji University (China).
The authors examine how public-private partnership (PPP) mechanisms are applied within the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems of BRICS nations to modernise programmes, increase their practical orientation, and strengthen the link between education and the labour market. The research is based on a comparative analysis of practices in three countries: Russia, India, and China. The Russian case is represented by the ‘Professionalitet’ project and other initiatives aimed at involving business in personnel training. In India, the authors analyse models for transforming technical institutes and colleges with the participation of industrial partners, while in China, they examine localised dual systems in which enterprises become key participants in the educational process.
Particular attention is paid to the institutional and organisational conditions for the sustainability of PPPs: funding mechanisms, employer participation in curriculum design, the formation of unified qualification standards, and feedback systems. The authors emphasise that effective partnership models emerge where the interests of the state, educational institutions, and business are balanced, and where interaction extends beyond individual short-term projects. The concluding section of the article is dedicated to the potential for cooperation among BRICS countries in developing vocational education and exchanging best practices in the field of personnel training.
The work, titled ‘Private-Public Partnership in TVET: An Overview of Current Practices in the BRICS Countries’ , is available onthe journal’s website.