State Educational Institution “Podilskyi Center of Vocational Education” was created by optimizing the chain of institutions of vocational education in our town (joining of 4 educational institutions) in 2015. The main advantage of the Center is that it is the only educational institution that provides professional training for the youth, the unemployed population in the main branches of the Khmelnytskyi region’s economy. The average annual contingent of the Center is about 800 students.

Our Center trains future qualified workers from 34 integrated professions, 76% of which are technologically complicated. Kamianets-Podilskyi labor market is characterized by a constant demand for qualified workers such as plumber, electric and gas welders, painters, bricklayers, plasterers, electricians, millers, mechanics, carpenters, etc. There is still a demand for sellers, cooks, hairdressers, seamstresses, travel agents, accountants, and administrators.

Nowadays we understand that the current issue is the modernization of the Vocational Education system, which plays an important role in the formation of a competitive workforce, without which it is impossible to imagine modern production today. According to the Government’s Plan of Priority Actions regarding the implementation of the pilot project on the modernization of training of workers in specific professions, it became possible to open educational and practical centers (by industry direction). As a result, an educational and practical center for the profession “Plumber” (“Installer of sanitary technical systems and equipment”) was opened in 2017 where training of qualified workers for this profession is carried out through advanced training, course training, and retraining.

Also, our Center has developed a regional development project “Creation of a student hotel-tourist center” on the basis of our educational institution, which is being implemented at the expense of state budget funds which was received from the European Union.

This project will give us the opportunity to conduct training and practice for students of the hotel, tourism, food branches, and service sectors, as well as to receive additional funds for the institution’s special fund.

State Educational Institution “Podilskyi Center of Vocational Education” cooperates with a wide range of social partners such as employers, the public employment service, schools, higher education institutions, etc. The main customers of highly qualified workers are city enterprises from the main branches of the Khmelnytskyi region’s economy, such as industry and mechanical engineering; construction; road transport; light industry; branch of household services; hotel and restaurant service; tourism.

The Center is the winner of prestigious educational competitions, such as 11th International Exhibition “Innovation in Modern Education” – gold medal (2019); All-Ukrainian Award “Innovation in Education” – 2nd degree diploma (2019); “Pedagogical Olympus of Ukraine” project, the Center became a LEADER OF EDUCATION IN UKRAINE.

And finally we can say that “Podilskyi Center of Vocational Education” is an attractive and highly professional modern educational institution where it is comfortable to study and work, and it is a place for creation of future highly qualified specialists in the modern labor market.