Modern professional and educational standards for record keepers and archivists. Prospects for use

Abstract

Although professional standards are increasingly introduced into the practice of organizations, their significance is not completely clear to everyone. It is largely due to a misunderstanding of the purpose of their creation and their relationship with educational standards. Therefore, it is important to emphasize the essence of distinction between the functions of the universities that provide the training according to educational standards, and the councils for professional qualifications that develop professional standards which serve as the basis for the assessment of staff’s qualification. At the present stage, these are interrelated processes aimed at assessing the qualifications of the personnel of organizations (which include university graduates), their knowledge, skills and abilities. Professional standards, being neither an alternative nor a competitor to educational standards, play a crucial role in the labor market and in the education process. Due to the fact that the practice of implementing professional standards is based on state regulation and acquires the features of the mandatory in its application, universities will not be able to ignore them in their education process. The history of professional standards creation, regulatory support, specifics of their use and other issues are discussed in the article with an emphasis on their relationship with the educational standards of the Russian Federation. The paper presents the variability of the joint use of the above-mentioned standards and the role of the education community in this process.