Provision of professional personnel of the economy of the region on the basis of a balance of business needs and opportunities of the educational system

Introduction. The relevance of the study is caused by the challenges facing the vocational education system, the regional labor market, and the entrepreneurship system as a whole. Purpose of the study. The purpose of the study is to reveal the state of the secondary vocational education system in the Northwestern Federal District, to assess the structure of personnel training in the vocational education system. Methods. The research methodology is based on the continuity of the processes of dialectic development of the secondary vocational education system and the demand of the labor market, medium and small businesses in the current economic conditions. Based on the methods of structural-functional analysis and synthesis, it became possible to identify the main directions of training professional personnel. The object of the study is the system of secondary vocational education in the Northwestern Federal District. Results. The results of the study are a comprehensive analysis of the main characteristics of the secondary vocational education system in the Northwestern Federal District: the number of students, incl. for full-time education, for enlarged groups of training specialties, analysis of the quality of admission to professional educational programs in the context of vocational training groups in the regions of the North-Western Federal District, analysis of the state of the material and technical base of the vocational training system. Conclusions. The results of summarizing the directions of further research of the system of secondary voca-tional education made it possible to identify the leading directions of scientific discourse on the state of vocational training, to identify the leading structural characteristics of the coincidence of the state order and business needs, the organization of management in the system for improving the quality of implementation of educational programs implemented by institutions of the secondary vocational education system.