PECULIARITIES OF ADULT EDUCATION MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE FORMATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The authors formulated the main prerequisites for reforming the education system, in particular the introduction of the concept of continuing education and adult education. It has been established that the modern requirements of the labour market and the need to continuously acquire new competences require continuous training and development. Adult education is a separate field that provides for the educational needs of self-employed individuals. In the new economy, education will be seen as a «lifelong» process which will become a major career driver and a prerequisite for the possibility of multiple occupational scenarios throughout life. This determines the main change of today – the demand for individualization of educational trajectories. The growing diversity of cognitive and information requests of different segments of the population today can no longer be met within the existing forms of traditional education. The problem of the inadequacy of the formed education system to the new needs of society and people is growing. This requires a different approach to the organization of mass educational activities of adults – education must meet the diverse interests and capabilities of citizens. The infrastructure of the market of educational services for adults should be formed taking into account features and needs, psychophysiological characteristics, experience of applicants. The peculiarity of teaching adults is that it must be carried out taking into account their age, social and psychological, national and other characteristics that must be taken into account when forming theeducational model of education. Educational institutions in modernconditions face the problem not just of survival, but of creating radically new educational models that will meet the requirements of consumers ofeducational services and employers; will be able to quickly adapt to market needs; to form relevant skills in applicants; teach professions that do not yet exist. The main tasks for the formation of the market of adult education in Ukraine are formulated.