Svetlana Michka

The paper deals with a topical issue at the present stage of national education development. Lifelong education is a key component of an effective human development, both in professional life and in economic and social life. Additional vocational training in the context of lifelong education allows to improve the obtained academic knowledge, to adjust to the requirements of the innovative development of science, technology and society. The authors study the basic elements of additional vocational training structure and the ways to improve it.