OREANDA-NEWS. August 03, 2010. OJSC KAMAZ holds a conference for managers of Tatarstan’s institutions of primary, secondary, higher and further vocational education.

The conference is traditionally called by Tatarstan’s Ministry of Education and Science in the middle of August, but this year it was brought forward to 30 July in order that its participants might see the work of KAMAZ. It will be recalled that in August the majority of KAMAZ’s employees will be on annual corporative paid leave for the first time in the company’s practice, and all productions will be stopped.

“Vocational Education in the Republic of Tatarstan: Priority Measures” is the name and the key-note of the conference. It will begin from an excursion to the mother assembly conveyor of the automobile plant, and then the participants will work in groups. The managers of institutes of higher education and specialized secondary educational establishments – Fayruza Mustafina, Chancellor of Naberezhnochelninsky State Teachers Training Institute, Aydar Kalimullin, Chancellor of Yelabuzhsky State Teachers Training University, and others will act as experts.

They will consider the issues of vocational education infrastructure, new educational standards and methods, integration with regional economy, certification of professional qualifications, staffing of vocational education, students’ professional orientation. The conference will be followed by a plenary meeting. Kirill Puzyrkov, Deputy Director General of OJSC KAMAZ of HRM and Organizational Development, Albert Gilmutdinov, Minister of Education and Science of the RT, Klara Tazetdinova, Deputy Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Protection of the RT will act as moderators.

Solutions worked out at the conference should become a guideline for improvement of human resource development for production.