in Russia at 100,000 (Kuzminov, Filonovich, 2005).
As business and management education prospers and expands, professional retraining
for workers is still struggles the consequences of its total neglect in 1990s. The most professional staff of vocational schools and technical colleges have left the public educational establishments for managerial positions in business, experienced workers and technicians with pedagogical skills are not willing to occupy poorly paid jobs in the public sector. The temporary solution many Russian industrial companies see as an effective tool to overcome the shortage of qualified younger workers is to re-build the in company mentoring system. Unskilled persons may be taken for a special “apprenticeship” contract, which sets the obligations of the company to train a person towards particular specialty and level of qualification. More important, instructors who provide such on-job training (presumably, the most experienced and patient workers and technicians) usually receive significant additional payment for such duties