OREANDA-NEWS. December 18, 2012. The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO was named the key partner of the International Labour Organization for the implementation of the international programme on elementary and secondary education systems strengthening and development of the CIS, Asia and Middle East labour markets.

The SKOLKOVO business school is responsible for the creation of the diagnostics and prognostication tools for the national labour markets and managers preparation for secondary education systems in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as well as in Russian regions.

The programme represents the Russian Federation’s contribution to the implementation of the G20 strategy in the field of professional personnel training. Its goal is to create new approaches to the specialists in demand preparation.

“There are three priorities in the programme”, says Sergey Storchak, Deputy Minister of Economics of the Russian Federation, “First, to get the national professional education systems in compliance with the labour market requirements. Second, to develop the methodology of the managers preparation. Third, to create the ranking and prognostication programmes for labour markets”.

The programme will be realized in three years (from December 2012 to the middle of 2015). The progress reports would be announced at the G20 leaders’ summit in St. Petersburg in September 2013.