The article continues to present the results of the federal state educational standardsimplementing. The monitoring of its effectiveness has been conducted by the Association of Classical Universities of Russia, Association of Technical Universities and Comprehensive Research Institute of Education MSU in late 2011 – the beginning of 2012. The article highlights the challenges, which face universities in developing and implementation of major educational programs for undergraduate and graduate programs with the use of newmethodological categories (competence, learning outcomes, module educational program – credits). The possibilities of using the methodological principles of European education (the results of the project TUNING) are discussed.

The paper is focused on the upgraded technology for educational programs design considering the assessment of learning outcomes immediately after forming the initial datafor designing the program, exactly the required competences of the graduates. Within the two-stage life cycle model of the educational program on the stage of learning outcomes planning the methods, indicators and criteria are defined to assess the competences acquired by the students. The key definitions used while implementing the above mentioned procedures are specified; and their interconnections are described. The recommendations for learningoutcomes assessment are provided, which are aimed at assessment of correlation betweenengineering educational programs learning outcomes assessment and the requirements of federal educational standards along with the international standards for engineering education.

The article considers the problems of reforming the structure of educational content in accordance with the competence model of higher education. The contradictions of transitionfrom traditional model to competence-based model are analyzed.

In today’s world there are three main types of reaction to the systemic crisis of modernity, including its knowledge and educational spheres – rewesternization, dewesternization, and decoloniality. The article considers how these models are implemented in the main tendenciesof university development as an institution. It either bends more and more in the direction ofthe “Davos culture” and ultimate corporativization, or exists within the frame of the multi-polar world and polycentric capitalism ideology. Finally, the third option is a radical delinking from the previous principles of the university as one of the two main modernity institutes for the production and dissemination of a particular normative knowledge. The author strives to define where does the Russian university stand in this scheme. Specific attention is also paid tothe humanities in contemporary university and their prospects for the 21st century.

The paper examines the basic tendencies in the world science and the objectively necessary and sufficient conditions of English-language activity of Russian universities for increasingtheir competitive ability among the world class universities. The connection between constant losses of Russian universities in the international competition among universities and the level of their proficiency in English is analyzed. The connection of the prevailing criteria of estimation the quality of scientific results with the level of English language proficiency is shown. There are touched upon some recommendation regarding the solution of the problems.

The article is devoted to some possible consequences for higher education system after Russia’s entering World Trade Organization. In particular the author discusses the problems and difficulties concerning formation of the educational programs. The mechanisms minimizingthese difficulties are considered.

On the threshold of Kuban State Agrarian University’s anniversary historical aspects oftraining agrarian specialists, lines of university’s activity are considered. Also it is stressed the role of the university in training world level agrarian specialists. The specifics of staff training for working under market conditions is characterized.

The article shows the experience of Kuban State Agrarian University in development andimplementation of the quality management system. An approved approach to evaluation of the effectiveness of QMS improvement describing the dynamics of university development is presented.

The experience in creating the regional agrotechnoparks and the specifics of their activity in the framework of higher professional educational institution are considered. Also it isnoted the necessity of state participation and influence on the processes of agrarian science development and innovative activity.

The article proposes the algorithm of quality management of learning process at highereducational institution including quality assessment of students’ knowledge and skills and assessment of the efficiency of academic staff activity. Implementation of the mentioned algorithm may enhance the efficiency of educational process management at higher educational institution.

The article focuses on the specifics of university teacher’s activities in conditions of competence-based approach realization. The modern teacher should perform a lot ofpedagogical functions, that’s why an appropriate criterion for his competence assessment will be his preparedness for continual professional development and a firm professional position.

The key theme of the article is the systematic organization of the process of students’subjectivity formation in educational process at the university. This enables to achieve anorganic combination of the processes of development, training and upbringing of students, and to make education a purposeful process of personal and professional development ofstudents.

The article shows the necessity of applying new teaching technologies in educational process at clinical departments. The innovative audio-visual technologies stimulate students’ cognitive activity, improve their practical skills, develop clinical thinking.

This paper deals with project studios in university teaching and learning as mean of enhancement of practical value of students professional development. The authors describetheir expertise in applying such format for preparation of master level students of NTU“Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” as well as define peculiarities of project studio format implementation and its advantages.

Positive sides of an integrative approach to teaching graphic disciplines are revealed in the article. Theoretical and practical aspects of forming design and technological competence areconsidered within the process of teaching integrative course “Descriptive geometry and engineering computer graphics”.

Problems of transition of domestic higher education institutions to the subject-subject education paradigm are considered. Principles of the subject-subject education paradigm from the point of view of historically developed socio-cultural base of functioning of theRussian society are analyzed. The author proposes measures for upgrading the educationalprocess taking into account national socio-cultural environment.

It is obvious that higher education in Russian Federation goes though a growing crisis.Therefore it is vitally important to define its deepest causes and factors. Determination of crisis key points on education market enables more effective and targeted problem solving.

The value of the creative part of the human potential will determine the place occupied byRussia on the world stage. The sphere of science and technology is of particular importance. This article shows how using modern intelligent tools for collecting, processing and analyzing information it is possible to ensure centrally coordinated by a roll-call monitoring and supportof talented young people. This system should accumulate the resources and capabilities of the state, employers and society in general.

The implicit contradiction between scientific and qualification aspects of thesis is considered in relation to the problem of scientific criteria. Logic of this problem and the broader problem of knowledge types demarcation determines the need to change thestandardized presentation of scientific results.

The article discusses the question concerning the competences and strategies for adequate description of the research results and for qualifying work writing. Compliance with the formal requirements increasingly prevails over consideration and solving of scientific andresearch problems. Very often, academese is a camouflage of scientific commonplace. The author suggests the way to prevent dysfunction of scientific discourse.

The article considers preconditions of creation and the history of opening, formation and transformations of the first Russian higher education institution – Slavic Greek Latin Academy in Moscow.

The article is devoted to the origin and development of the fundamental library of Demidov Law Lyceum in Yaroslavl. Earlier there were practically no publications on its activity. The qualitative and quantitative structure of library fund is analyzed. Persons who have made a significant contribution to the formation and development of the library are named.

The article considers the topical issues concerning the improvement of the quality of the legal education. Special attention is paid to the educational program, namely inclusion of thediscipline “human rights”, and to the forms of knowledge control.

In this paper, a higher education institution ranking methodology based on the applicants’ Comprehensive State Examination (EGE) scores is proposed. This methodology is shown to be more correct than the existing one.