Keyword: «design.»

The article reveals the essence of the Olympiad movement in the system of secondary vocational education, shows the importance and relevance of Olympiads of professional excellence as one of the promising forms of improving the quality of training of specialists in the field of design, identifying talented youth and developing educational institutions. The authors reveal the objectives of the Olympiads in the secondary vocational education system, their functions and give examples of Olympiad tasks in the area of the enlarged group of specialties 54.00.00 “Fine and Applied Arts”.