In creating the common European space on higher education, the significance of cultural studies and personal activeness are emphasized, as well as the specialists’ creative activity format, mobility abilities and experience are highlighted. It raises the task to stimulate a student’s vocational maturity in the study process. A student’s personality matures under the influence of the subject study of both general education, including artistic education, and vocational training. It is topical to determine the relationship of artistic education and vocational training and thus create a unified process of stimulating an individual’s maturity. Therefore, the relationship of artistic education and vocational training is topical in organizing subject studies at as institution of higher education.

The dissertation discloses the prerequisites of artistic education and vocational training and verifies its possibilities and significance in modeling subject studies. It singles out the system of criteria, indicators and guidelines of the study assessment – these are pedagogical factors stipulated from the individual’s viewpoint and their unified entirety (model), which is significant for both the teacher and the student.

It has been determined that artistic education stipulated from the vocational viewpoint and vocational training stipulated from the artistic viewpoint is a valid pedagogical factor of the studies organization and students’ vocational maturity; and the unity of artistic and vocational experience development is the principle of organizing the study process.

The relationship of artistic education and vocational training is necessary in modeling studies in the context of contemporary educational paradigm.

Raktažodžiai: profesinis rengimas, meninis ugdymas, artistic education, vocational training