The article focuses on issue of implementation of the project!and!team education technology in the educational process within the framework of a unique project aimed at developing and creation of a series of student small spacecraft. Innovative learning technology developed at the Siberian State Aerospace University in cooperation with strategic partners - JSC «Information Satellite Systems» named after academician M.F. Reshetnev» and Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Starting with the third!year of studying, students take part in all stages of satellite constructing - from the development of project documentation to the control of the apparatus in orbit. The student satellite project is divided into 12 directions. The scientific work of each member of a student team belongs to one of these directions. When passing to the following year of study student becomes tutor for younger students engaged in the same section of work. The project helps to identify the best students who are expected to become the most competent and responsible professionals.

The article considers the opportunities and prospects associated with the implementation the educational programs of higher education in the network form. Theincreased threats of imitation of educational activities for unscrupulous training providers are also discussed in this article. The review provides a range of problems and issues related to the assessment, examination and state accreditation of educational programs.

The article deals with the maritime education as industry!based staff training. Within the framework of Russian higher education system, industry!based education should not be considered as secondary or peripheral. Training of personnel for shipping industry is carried out on the basis of the national standards and in compliance with the requirements of the International Marine Organization, which is a part of the United Nations Organization. Integration of the maritime education into the world practice had started long before the Bologna system implementation, which is viewed sometimes as an access to European standards. Training of personnel for shipping industry in different countries is based on international and national standards. The organizations uniting the international maritime educational community are the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden, International Association of Maritime Universities, International Maritime Lecturers Association and regular conferences on shipping safety. Maritime education aims at the implementation of the state obligations inasmuch international conventions are ratified by the Russian government.

The problems of harmonizing higher educational and professional standards is considered. It is shown that the use of a professional standard as the goal for the educational one is impractical due to various temporal targets. At the same time, the professional standards have to be taken into account while developing basic education programs, particularly those of applied nature.

The work discusses the correlation between professional standards and federal educational standards for higher education. The author highlights the complexity of the problem of modification of educational standards and educational programs of higher education on the basis of professional standards.

In the article the situation in the Russian higher education system is analyzed in relation to the incessant transition from one set of standards to another, and this has been going on for 15 years, since the adoption of the standards of the first generation. It is shown that the requirement of actualizing of the educational standards in order to match the professional standards can bring only a huge additional workload that will impact on the educational process itself only negatively. In particular, it is called to question the practicability of putting into action the standards of the generation 3+ in conditions when it is known for their shortcomings. The author draws attention to the negative effects of the total subordination of higher education to the badly formulated economic needs at the expense of other purposes, including cultural development of personality and its self-identification. It is noted that the reforms in the total absence of academic freedom set free higher school lecturers from any responsibility for the result of education, and this is bad either for themselves or for the system as a whole. The author defends the point of view that standardization of education oriented onto purely economic aspect of life cannot lead to any positive result in principle. This is evidenced by the experience of other countries.

The article describes one of the most challenging aspects of academic writing, or rhetoric and composition, the focus. Special attention is paid to narrowing down the topic of an academic text, formulating a clear thesis statement and the development of the main idea throughout the text. An academic text is viewed as an intellectual procedure, which enables the writer to construct new knowledge and successfully communicate it to the academic community. The paper is aimed at helping Russian students and researchers better understand the requirements of Western universities and international academic journals to theses and publications. Recommendations are based on the WAC approach, although the examples are drawn mainly from social sciences and humanities.

This paper addresses issues involved in creating the introduction section of IMRAD science research papers in the English language. The introduction is considered as an independent text, which contains comprehensive information about the entire research. The basic principles of the structure and composition of the introduction are described in terms of the requirements imposed by modern peer!reviewed scientific journals. The suggested approach can also be useful when writing an introduction in other languages.Keywords: science research paper introduction, academic text, writing academic

The paper addresses the theoretical and practical aspects of developing academic literacy of students. It overviews the nature and the structure of academic literacy and claims that academic literacy should be developed on the basis of academic discourse. Writing is seen as a key component and fostering academic literacy should be based on teaching academic written discourse transfer.

The purpose of this article is justification of students’ status as consumers of educational products and users of education results. They are also characterized as competent agents to assess the quality of higher education. The subject of discussion is also a conceptual model of the main working concepts in the context of the problem. Sociological exchange theory is a methodological basis for the interpretation of the studied phenomena.The article deals with such concepts as education quality, students’ assessment of education quality, educational product and its main consumers. The students’ opinion is presented as a competent position to account for their views for designing educational politics of the University. The dynamics of the post!industrial shift of the main target groups of education consumers is shown in the article. This fact requires to change formulations of objectives of the University and to correct contents and modes of interaction between University and students. The arguments for individualization processes and learning outcomes for students are offered here. Thereby its importance to the strategic management of University is highlighted.

In this paper, we reconsider concepts of ‘academic capitalism’ and ‘entrepreneurship university’, which are intensively discussed in higher education researches as a result of growing competition between universities from all over the world. Despite the fact, that the main books on this theme have been published nearly 20 years ago, their actuality is growing, especially in Russian context. We analyze the possible theoretical input of these concepts as well as possible empirical implications for the future research. The themes of ‘academic managerialism’ and ‘university as a corporation’ are also discussed.

This paper is devoted to volunteering activity of Russian students. The article presents the results of the monitoring research - survey of the students of economically developed Russian domains - Sverdlovsk region. Students of 14 universities took part in the survey. The author also analyzes some results of survey of young volunteers in Ural. There are some important characteristics of volunteer students’ community. Special attention is paid to motivation of student volunteers.

In 2015 Nizhny Novgorod state university of architecture and civil engineering (NNGASU) celebrates its 85th anniversary of the foundation. NNGASU is one of the leading architectural and engineering universities of Russia now, and it is a modern innovative educational complex. The article considers the history of NNGASU formation, analyzes the development of educational and research activities, international cooperation of NNGASU, reveals the role of the university in the training of highly qualified personnel.Keywords: Nizhny Novgorod state university of architecture and civil engineering,

The article analyzes the stages of formation and development of the system of level and continuing education in Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Construction (NNGASU) in the context of the modernization of modern national higher school. The work shows the specifics of educational activities of NNGASU as one of the leading architectural and engineering universities in Russia. The publication summarizes the innovative experience of university education.

The article considers the main features of scientific and innovative activities of Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. It views the fundamental and applied areas of research, R&D, highlights the activities of interbranch engineering centre, and introduces its basic qualitative results and achievements.

This paper analyzes the characteristics and specificity of international cooperation of Nizhny Novgorod state university of architecture and civil engineering in educational and research spheres. The paper presents experience of implementing projects important for the region and the country. The article traces the dynamics of international cooperation of NNGASU since 1994 to the present moment.

The article examines interaction between schools and universities by establishing “university education clusters”. Professional orientation network center based on Nizhny Novgorod state university of architecture and civil engineering served as an example of educational institutions integration in the region. The project aims not only at developing future enrollees’ positive motivation for professional self!determination, strong interest in sustainable engineering and construction trades, but also at improving school education in the region. Together with representatives of school administrations, the leading NNGASU professors have developed the principles of continuing interaction «School - university». The authors substantiate the necessity of expanding the network for including the leading enterprises of the Volga Federal District in the interaction.

The article presents the main approaches to the organization of pedagogic activities at the university; highlights the basic aspects of the competence approach and its realization at NNGASU. The main focus of the paper is the development of university socio!cultural environment by means of specially organized cultural work and extracurricular activity. The implemented measures at the university prove the effectiveness of the pedagogic activities.

Integration of the Russian system of higher engineering education into the global educational domain compelled Russian universities to enhance the importance of humanities in engineering programs with a special focus on learning foreign languages. In the modern interpretation of its functions, a foreign language is considered not only an instrument of cross!cultural communication, but also an essential tool for international professional development and career growth of specialists. However, it must be admitted that the system of language education at a university level comes up against serious problems of historical, economic or political background, for which reason there are processes in the system that hinder or hamper solution of the tasks set before the university. The article makes an attempt to identify the existent problem areas of language education in Russian technical universities, while developing recommendations that can contribute to improvement of the current situation.

The article considers characteristic features of young specialist’s self-education, shows students’ self-dependent work motivation. There are defined the levels and types of students’ self-dependent work. The article dwells on organization of students’ self-dependent work and the problem matters relating to, reveals its key moments. Special attention is paid to redistribution of the teachers’ and students’ position in the present day educational process. There are given proposals in the field of methodological and methodical provision of students’ self!dependent work.

The article analyzes the current situation with foreign language teaching of Russian-speaking students majoring in non-linguistic as well as the lack of a unified evaluation system of the effectiveness of language training provided. The authors describe an assessment model as an integral part of the teaching and learning process. This model is aimed not only at compensating for the lack of the English!language environment but at building the foreign language community at the Russian University.

The paper deals with the development of bachelors’ of engineering economic and managerial skills in accordance with the requirements of employers under the Federal State Educational Standard of implementation. On the example of undergraduate training in«Engineering» at Yurga Technological Institute (branch) of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, the list of economic and managerial skills bachelors of engineering has been updated with the new competencies based on questionnaires and analysis of employers’requests. The authors suggest an adjusted structural!functional model of economic and managerial skills of bachelors of engineering, view criteria and indicators to diagnose the readiness levels, present the approbation results of BA in mechanical engineering training model in the direction of «Engineering» at Yurga Technological Institute (branch) of Tomsk Polytechnic University in the period from 2011 to 2014.

The article describes the special method to form student groups for carrying out practical training. Each department form local student groups according to their achievements (rating) in the discipline. The best students are distributed into first group, and the weak ones! into the last group. Each group studies at its own comfortable speed and uses appropriate technologies. As a result - benefits for students, lecturers, and department administration.