Keyword: «adult learner»

The article deals with the actual issues of supplementary vocational education system functioning, and the processes of its development are analyzed. In the modern conditions the continuous vocational education is recognized to be the main element of the educational process and provides the social-economic development of the country, in the context of forming the qualified work potential. The analysis of statistical data considered the priority areas of development of the system of additional vocational education and the main possible consumers of this sector of services, as well as the age distribution of potential consumers. The main problems and contradictions hindering the development of VET system under the conditions of constantly modernizing education system and significant changes in the labor market demands for a competitive workforce were analyzed and highlighted. The considered assessment of the consumption sphere will provide the purposeful and demanded approach to the program complex. The received conclusions, will allow to reveal the shortcomings on which elimination it is necessary to work and to define advantages which development is capable to provide economic development of the given direction. The results obtained in the study can be used in the development of strategic and program documents, as well as in the formation of measures and directions of development of the sphere of education, in particular the system of additional professional education.