Natalia Yagovkina, HR Director of Garda Technologies LLC,

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industrial enterprises, for example, at assembly and commissioning sites, as part of operating and repair services, construction and installation teams, etc."

on the contrary, believes that the abolition of tuition fees will further reduce the prestige of secondary education, since those who will go to secondary vocational schools are the ones who cannot afford a university.

Head of the HR department of georgia whatsapp number database Crosstech Solutions Group LLC Ekaterina Zakirova believes that in the short term, the abolition of tuition fees in vocational schools will create the appearance of saturation of the market with fresh IT personnel - in fact, it may turn out that the effect will be more negative than positive due to the mass influx of unskilled personnel into the IT market.

According to Anna Melnik, Head of the HR Department at PIX Robotics, the effect of the increase in the number of graduates may be ambiguous: "On the one hand, this is great - those who currently do not have access to it for various reasons will be able to get an education. On the other hand, there will be more of those who have studied but have not acquired much knowledge. Such graduates will not be much different from those who have completed three-month courses. Because of this, the workload of interviewers when applying for a job will increase, and there will be many disappointed graduates who have wasted their time. It is extremely important that education in vocational schools be of high quality and that there is demand from students. Then the quantity will not be at the expense of quality, and everyone will benefit - young specialists, employers, and vocational schools."

Chief analyst of NP "Russoft" Dmitry Zhelvitsky believes that the primary issue is not the number of graduates, but the quality of education: "If there are more budget places, then the number of applicants will increase even more - there are reports that this number has been growing in recent years. Probably, the output will also increase. But for the software industry, it is not just the number of graduates that is important, but also the quality of their training. There is a suspicion that a large proportion of graduates in IT specialties do not find work in their chosen field due to the very low quality of training. This is even in universities. Companies are not ready to hire them, even if there is an opportunity to complete their studies for six months or a year. It is important to finance not just universities and secondary specialized educational institutions, but only those educational institutions that are capable of training qualified specialists."

University or secondary specialized educational institution
In IT and related industries, specialists with secondary education are increasingly in demand. Founder and CEO of Edstein LLC Evgeny Obogorov believes that employees with secondary specialized education can hold positions related to technical support, software development, web design, information security, etc.: "In the IT industry, it is important to have skills and knowledge that can be obtained not only through higher education, but also through on-the-job training or independent study. For example, for us at Edstein, an employee's real experience, ability to take initiative and learn quickly play a big role. If a person has these skills, then the level of education fades into the background."

Natalia Yurina, Head of the Personnel Selection and Adaptation Department at New Cloud Technologies LLC (developer of MyOffice software), believes that there are many positions in IT that can be filled by graduates of technical colleges, i.e. specialists with secondary specialized education: "For example, a PC maintenance specialist, a system/network administrator, a web and multimedia application developer, a database administrator, an information security technician, an information security specialist. Some of these positions require knowledge and skills that can only be obtained in secondary specialized educational institutions."