The monitoring of technical specialists training quality is topical for modern economy.
South Ural State University has developed methods for monitoring of employers contentment with the students training quality and has been successfully approving it for the last 5 years. The University members question employers, who hire students for practical training, and specify the most important for employers professional competencies. The adjustment of courses contents is made on the results of the analysis.
Following the introduction in the course of the last five years the monitoring methods have been improved. The independent analysis on the quality of teaching students of leading universities in the Ural Federal District was conducted during the autumn semester. During the monitoring the representatives of more than 300 industrial enterprises, including the largest mechanical engineering, oil and gas, and metallurgical corporations were questioned.
The monitoring results have showed that the level of engineers training at SUSU can be rated as high. Besides, the results of SUSU graduates are higher than the Ural average.
The monitoring methods and results were highly praised by the Ministry of Education and Science, and the system itself was recommended for introduction on a national scale.