Larisa Tararina

The lack of agreement between labor market and the market of educational services, shortage of qualified personnel, the lack of effective partnerships between the system of higher and vocational education, the lack of working professions’ prestige – all this actualized the study of higher and vocational education integration problem, providing effective training of qualified personnel in demand in the modern labor market. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to reveal the integrative relations of higher and vocational education organizations at content and methodological levels. The leading approach to the study of this problem is an integrative approach that ensures the integrity and continuity of the content and methodological components of higher and vocational education systems. The article reveals the integrative relations of higher and vocational education institutions on the content level, which suggests the consistency of the educational curricula of vocational college and University in related specialties; consistency of academic disciplines’ content in college and University; consistency of training and methodological support's content and on the methodological level, suggesting consistency of forms and methods of teaching in College and University; the similarity of learning activities and types of knowledge control for students. The relationship of content and methodological components of higher and vocational education systems helps to reduce the duration of training, providing continuity, variability and flexibility of professional curricula; to focus on the practical component of training; to form specialist’s integral characteristics of thinking and activities; to ensure social protection through the acquiring of working professions, qualification of technician and engineer; to provide for students the possibility to choose their own educational and career paths; to reduce the period for students’ professional adaptation and let them stay in the workplace.