ECONOMIC PRECONDITIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN THE FIELD OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Relevance: the study of economic preconditions for the training of qualified specialists is a necessary prerequisite for the comprehensive implementation of the national policy of public-private partnership. Purpose: to outline the economic preconditions for the introduction of public-private partnership in the field of vocational (technical) education in Ukraine. Methods: theoretical, statistical, macroeconomic, comparative and retrospective analysis, reduction of time series to uniform prices Results: the interrelation of changes in quantitative and expenditure parameters in physical and uniform prices with the definition of real economic preconditions for the introduction of public-private partnership in the field of vocational education is analyzed; the close connection of these preconditions with macroeconomic parameters of the state of the Ukrainian economy and its institutional environment is revealed; the shortcomings of the expenditure policy that caused negative trends in this field of education are outlined; the necessity of reorientation of institutional changes to the promotion of private enterprise as a priority task for creating decent preconditions for directing human capital to the development of the national economy is substantiated. Conclusions: it is proved that the paradoxical discrepancy between quantitative indicators and funding for vocational education has subjective sources related to the price factor, and objective, related to the lack of institutional incentives for entrepreneurship to establish public-private partnerships.