Staffing the priority directions of the socio-economic development: situation and problems

The goal of this original research paper is to analyze the state and the staffing problems of the priority directions of the socio-economic development in Russia and to reveal the required directions to modify the staffing approaches within the continuous education in general and in higher education institutions in particular. We here study and generalize the contents of the state programmes, which support the priority directions of the socio-economic development in Russia in terms of staffing, consider questions of the methodological and legal aspects to support these programmes with regards to manpower training. Our research has shown that in most of cases the implementation of the programmes is not supported by the required amount of staffing of various skill levels. This fact requires revisiting and reworking of these state programmes within one framework. Based on this analysis, this article proposes the concept of such framework together with a specially designed model to monitor and assess the state of the continuous professional education system, which can form the basis for further deeper theoretical and applied research and development both in the field of continuous education and in the area of educational institution development and management. This work presents results of the unique and complex generalized analysis of the state and the staffing problems of the government programmes, the analysis being carried out for the first time in practice. These results can be implemented in practice by the government officials and management to undertake the actions of revisiting and reworking the socio-economic programmes and to take managerial decisions to further sharpen the structure and develop the system of the professional continuous education.