A brief analysis of modern trends in the sphere of researchers’ training is presented. A number of topical organizational innovations are discussed including harmonization of master and PhD programmes; formation of professional, social and personal competences of PhD programmes graduates; introduction of new organizational forms of PhD training.

The article focuses on the problems concerning functioning of graduate school within the framework of modern engineering education system. Master’s degrees programs are considered as a base for the development of individual educational trajectory and for solving the problem of individual preparation of engineerEresearchers. The authors discuss the different variants offorming the master’s programs taking into account the conditions of functioning of twoeducational subsystems.

An efficient development of competency-based educational process requires lecturers with high scientific and innovative potential. In order to increase considerably such competencesof senior lecturers and teaching assistants Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University implements Master’s programme for their training, which provides a noticeable increase in academic potential as well as creation of methodically self-developing environment at theacademic department while lecturers-candidates for Master’s degree are working on their pedagogical theses.

The article sums up the results of development of Russian university technical education system for the last 20 years. The authors mark out its specific features, and give a detailedanalysis of the main principles of organization of learning and research process at technical university, such as humanitarization, fundamentalization and professionalization. The complex program for the development of university technical education in Russia on the contemporary stage is presented.

The strategy of development of the Kazan national research technological university(KNRTU) for the next six years as Russian scientifically-educational center in the sphere of chemical technologies is considered. Mission, strategic targets and priorities are formulated, the realization stages and their tasks are marked out. The possibility of realization of the goalson the basis of the reached indicators and the results of the activities is substantiated. The conception of training of innovative engineers in the field of chemical technologies in KNRTU as the largest center of domestic technological education is offered. Lines of integration of engineering and social and economic education are presented.

The President of The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) presents the main milestones of its 120-year history in this paper. The author reveals the mission of ASEE,shows its role in modern engineering technology education and draws attention to mainsteps, which can make students aware of engineering early. Special attention is made on how students can economically go to college in conditions of increase of the cost of higher education.

The paper describes the activities of the International society for engineering education IGIP and its Russian monitoring committee (RMK). Further on, the paper deals with the activities of the Centers of engineering pedagogy founded under the initiative of RMK IGIP in a number of Russian technical universities for the purpose of providing pedagogical,psychological and vocational training for the university faculty and other categories of students.

The article is about the productive collaboration of two universities of different types.These universities are KNRTU specializing in preparation of Chemical Engineers, and VAVT specializing in preparation of economists and lawyers in the sphere of international relations. Due to the cooperation of the University and the Academy, professional retraining program named ‘Management of organization’s foreign trade under WTO conditions’ was prepared.

The article considers preconditions and factors of formation of engineering pedagogy as a branch of pedagogical knowledge, traces its development within the research school of the Kazan national research university.

The paper deals with the problems of contemporary engineering education, which were discussed at the 41st IGIP International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy, and the 15thInternational Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (September 26–28, 2012 inVillach, Austria).It describes the main global and local trends in engineering education development discussed by the conference participants from 63 countries of the world. Special attention is given to global partnerships in engineering education in a number of large world class universities in the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Portugal. Successful projects ofexpress training models for engineering university faculty are analyzed.The paper dwells upon examples and methods of using interactive educational technologies for training future engineers, which were discussed in the reports of Kazan National Research Technological University professors.

The article analyzes the dynamics of Russian science and higher education during the last twenty years. The author strongly argues that the main characteristics of science developmentin Russia have considerably deteriorated. The fundamental problems and the possible ways their decisions are considered.

The article dwells upon a problem of term creation in publications devoted to modern vocational education. The practice of using such terms as competence and competency is an evidence of an absence of the their proper conceptual comprehension or of terminological substitution.

This paper continues the author’s cycle devoted to the quality of research and pedagogicaltexts. These publications explore typical shortcomings and weaknesses in the texts of beginners in research and pedagogy, which impede scientific communication and research process in education sphere. The author adheres to the position that scientific text should bear subjective modality that is to express the researcher’s attitude towards the statement.

The empirical basis of the paper is formed by the findings of the survey of the students ofone of the departments of Moscow State University conducted by the Institute for Complex Research in Education of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Students’ perceptions of the teachers are analyzed with regard to the impact on them of the economic and symbolic factors of identity (within the frames of the graded model of the stages of perception). Possibility of the content interpretation of the students’ assessments of their teachers is suggested to theorganizers of the educational process as a part of the teaching quality monitoring.

The article focuses on the properties and characteristics of the educational process, which determine its ability to respond to the educational needs of specific customers. Satisfaction with the quality of educational services of the main consumers (applicants, students andemployers) is characterized. The key problems, decreasing customer satisfaction: omissionsin the career-guidance work; lack of opportunities in the choice of specialization and optional disciplines; weak provision with educational-methodical literature; poor quality of supply; lack of practical training have been identified.

The article analyzes the data of sociological research «Health of Students» aimed at the ascertainment of the influence of secondary employment on the health of internal officeuniversity students. It is shown that the rate of exhaustion and emotional stress of work depends on gender, self-appraisal of health and aim at its care.

In accordance with the new requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education, competences should be considered as the results of the basic educational programs. The universities should provide the assessment of the competence level achieved by student in the learning process. In this article the following topics are covered: approaches to forming of assessment funds as well as internal services, which would organize and conductindependent evaluation procedures of students’ achievements assessment.

The authors give an assessment of remuneration of higher school teachers and other socially significant professions. The new approach for remuneration of labor of these categories of theworkers is offered providing reproduction and accumulation of the human capital.

The article focuses on the main differences between organizational forms of traditionaland e-learning. Discusses the need for regulation of formal education and the facilities of virtual learning environments. Provides guidelines for forming the rational structure of a distance course model, evaluates the prospects of using the cloud services in education.

Since the New Time the precondition for the technological modernization of the modern society has been being the organization of the scientific engineering education. In this articleit is shown on some historical examples that this is also very important indicator of thescientific and technological development.

The paper explores the system of doctoral training by means of the institution doctoral candidacy in the USSR by the example of one of the oldest domestic higher educational institutions – Tomsk State University. Problems in the work of the institution of doctoralcandidacy are revealed, the estimation of its efficiency is given.

A key theme of this article is the relation of the eminent Russian intellectuals: scientist (Grigory Tseretely), writer (Mikhail Prishvin), philosopher (Gustav Shpet) to educational reforms of 1920–1930s in Soviet Russia expressed in their letters and diary notes. The author considersthese records to be an invaluable existential experience which bears evidence of historical dependency of the modern state of intellectual culture and education system in Russia.

The article describes the methodological principles of forming the network including the sectoral prediction centres developing the priority direction “Transport and Cosmic Systems”on the basis of the leading Russian universities. The classification of the main goals of the prediction centres’ activities is given, and the key consumers are defined.

The authors adhere the opinion that while projecting the new educational programs it is necessary to apply education technologies, which can help students to enlarge the space of educational services. On the basis of the analysis of the contemporary trends in education theauthors formulate the concept “tutor competence” and mark out its structural components.