Designing a staffing system of high-qualified personnel for the energy sector in the context of engineering education reform

In the report of the Government of the Russian Federation “On the implementation of state policy in the field of education in 2022”) presented to the Federation Council in June 2023, it was stated that one of the tools for achieving its strategic goals is “the formation of an integral system of personnel staffing for the scientific and technological development of the country". The system of personnel staffing in economic sectors forms the scientific and technical potential of industry and has a direct impact on the quality of life of industry workers and the population as a whole. Naturally, this creative process requires a project. One of the basic principles of designing complex systems is decomposition, based on the fact that such systems are created by the formation of a set of interconnected and interacting, but structurally relatively autonomous subsystems. In relation to the system of personnel staffing for the country's economy, social and other spheres of society, such subsystems can be identified in the entire set of these spheres. These include construction, industry, agriculture, energy, transport, communications, housing and communal services, education, culture, trade, etc. The article was written in this context, which develops a number of provisions of O.V. Budzinskaya’s doctoral dissertation., the design a staffing system of high-qualified personnel for the energy sector is discussed, taking into account the innovations proposed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in connection with Russia’s withdrawal from the Bologna process. Having proved for many years the point of view that engineering education does not end at a university, the authors, relying on the methodology of systems analysis and the basic principles of systems theory, and on the basis of a comparative analysis of trends in engineering education in economically developed countries, substantiate the thesis about the inexpediency of continuous development in a situation of active development education, in particular, the corporate segment in it, a unified standard for enlarged groups of areas and specialties of engineering training in terms of the duration of basic and specialized education programs. The subject of the study is the professional education system of the Russian Federation. The object of the study is a multi-level system of engineering education in Russia. The purpose of the study is to argue that the multilevel nature of Russian education is not connected with the Bologna process and to justify the need for a systematic approach to optimizing the duration of educational programs at each level.