Vocational and Technical Education in the Career Plans of Youth

Admissions to vocational-technical training schools increased more than fivefold between 1940 and 1979 [3]. The "Basic Directions of Economic and Social Development for the USSR in the Years 1981-1985 and the Period up to 1990" call for the "further development of the network of vocational-technical education institutions as a highly important resource for supplying workers to the national economy." In the next five-year period, their number must increase to 13 million graduates. [2].