Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for monitoring the cooperation between the business community and the system of higher education on the regional level and spotting active participants of such cooperation. The received data are to be used for developing the support policy of the effective partnership models by state government and entrepreneurs associations. Methodology/approach. The monitoring was carried out with respect to the Voronezh region companies and universities in May-June 2015 (the data was collected for the year 2014). The research method involves surveying regional universities and building composite ratings of companies based on their involvement in higher education and considering the range of cooperation forms and their value. The research data analysis included pre-verification and allowed for measurement error. The final ranking used integral binary criteria. Findings. The research results provide statistics with regard to the abundance of specified forms of cooperation between universities and companies. It also points out groups of companies exercising significant influence over the region's system of education. The ranking of companies is used by the Voronezh region government and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was used as a basis for similar research in other regions as well as a prototype for a methodology of monitoring the cooperation between companies and institutions of secondary professional education. Originality/value. For the first time, an assessment of the scale of and factual abundance of specified forms of cooperation between the Russian business community and the system of higher education has been performed. The results obtained can be of interest to those researching functioning of the Triple Helix model (partnership between government, companies and education) in Russia as well as to authors of higher educational institution rankings.

The article describes a practical approach to design content of entrepreneurship education programs for bachelor degree students and different learning courses in order to form necessary competencies for professional doing business. As well the author outlines the requirements to institutional conditions of teaching process in Entrepreneurship education for bachelor degree students related to the quality of learning courses, the competencies of academic staff, practical training, learning infrastructure.

The dynamic development of the pharmaceutical industry in the Russian Federation is closely connected with training of qualified personnel, which in turn requires modernization of the education programs of higher professional education. Comparative analysis of the field, objects and kinds of professional activity, professional tasks of the pharmacist presented in the current Federal state educational standard (FSES HPE 3) and the new FSES HE 3+ in the specialty «pharmacy» allows to identify the main patterns and trends in the development of the Russian pharmaceutical education. Educational programs developed and implemented by institutions of higher vocational education must meet the requirements of employers for graduates with regard to the transfer of the domestic pharmaceutical industry to international standards.

The author proposes a number of ideas relating to MA training in economics. The paper considers the situation where in one audience meet the students with different levels of training including those who enter economic master's degree courses but do not have basic economic education. The responsibility for the implementation of the proposed solutions of this problem lies both with the university and the teacher. The author analyzes the situation when the state examination board is formed entirely by the employers' representatives or by members of professional associations. A number of problems that may arise in this case are discussed in the paper.

The article addresses the ways of improving training of masters in engineering. The paper reviews the existing approaches to master training in conformity with features of master training in engineering. The author proposes a model of master training based on successive bachelor and master programs. The elaborated algorithm allows to construct bachelor's and master's competence portrait. This portrait defines the structure and the content of training programs.

The author analyzes her own experience in designing master courses in pedagogy. The paper focuses on the challenges the university teachers face in their everyday practice. Postgraduate students stimulate a teacher to continuous self-education. This work demands persistent self-reflection, self-contemplation, and self-examination in order to reveal gaps in knowledge and to update it according to a new context of learning and teaching. A teacher should percept the necessity of himself (herself) using the words of M. Mamardashvili, and the first that he (she) has to do is to learn carefully the expectations of students and on this basis to design the MA course.

The paper analyzes the specificity of the position of Russian socio-humanitarian journals in Scopus citation database, addresses the lacuna of publications on educational issues that does not correspond to the declared by Scopus principle of geographical diversification. The authors stress the need for presence in the Scopus the publications covering the perspective of domestic higher education. Researchers in many countries including European consider the investigations of Russian theorists of higher education to be worthy of attention because of their creative and look-ahead character.

The article proposes theoretical underpinning for the need of improvement pre-university level of education to implement an innovative approach to the training of engineers based on CDIO ideology. Pre-university training of enrollees is discussed as an initial step to improve the quality of engineering education. The reasons of enrollees' unpreparedness to choose engineering professions are analyzed. The paper proposes the possible solutions of the stated problem by means of specially organized educational process implemented by the university, secondary schools and/ or inter-school educational institutions of additional education. The implementation of CDIO standards in the design of pre-university training is discussed. The authors describe the experience in implementation of a specially organized course "Engineering" held for the pupils of 10-11 grades of Kirovsky district schools at Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk in 2014-2015. The problems identified during the implementation of the course are revealed. The proposed solutions of the problems will allow to improve the educational process in the framework of the professional course "Engineering" and the quality of pre-university training level to implement an innovative approach to training of engineers in CDIO ideology.

The article presents the methods to improve the quality of mathematics education of future bachelors of engineering majors. The influence of CDIO ideology on teaching engineering students mathematical disciplines is analyzed. The authors put the main emphasis on teaching mathematics from the standpoint of world standards CDIO basing on polyparadigmal approach, which complies with the Federal state educational standard of higher education. It is offered to fill the gaps in determining the quality of mathematical preparation of future bachelors of engineering majors in the federal state educational standards of higher education with additional competencies based on CDIO ideology. The authors dwell on the features of context education, interdisciplinary integration, project implementation, activities students, reflective and evaluative students' activities, teamwork in math learning in an electronic environment Moodle within CDIO ideology.

The article tests out the criteria for comparing data on activity of partnership networks of higher education institutions presented on their websites. The authors give a comparative analysis of self-presentations provided by the three world's top universities - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge University and Imperial College London. Considerable attention is focused on peculiarities of presentation of network partners, interactions with and between partners, and also prospects for development of partnership networks. The proposed criteria have proved effective in identifying common features and differences in the way higher education institutions supply information about their partnership networks.

The paper touches upon the use of active forms of training at medical university, particularly the method of case analysis. The authors present the methodological basis of case studies method and an algorithm of lessons with the use of modern educational classifications of medical cases. The sequence of stages of student's productive activity in a problematic

The labor market is constantly changing. These changes apply to the needs of industries in professional staffing structure and training levels of professionals involved in the economic processes. The most important task of Russian higher education is to meet the needs of the economy for highly qualified personnel by improving the competitiveness and mobility of graduates in the labor market.

In his interview the Rector of Belgorod State National Research University O.N. Polukhin highlights its main achievements, competitive advantages, prospects of development. Prof. O.N. Polukhin dwells on the University academic reputation and position in world rankings.

The article considers the dynamics of the research and innovation potential of Belgorod State National Research University (BelSU) in recent years and the main achievements of the University in research and innovation; it also looks at the experience acquired and the examples of effective commercialization of the intellectual activity results of BelSU research units within the framework ofthe project integration with economic entities of the country and the region. The authors pay special attention to the establishment of BelSU as a research entrepreneurial university, which involves building up its research capacity, first of all, in the spheres of materials science, living systems, and information and communication technologies, as well as forming an effective innovation ecosystem.

Currently, there is a set of processes related to significant changes in contemporary Russian system of higher education. This article focuses on the experience of practice-based learning implementation in higher education. We generalize practical experience of NRU «BelSU » to address the priorities of improving governance and the quality of university education. The adaptation of university education programs to the new educational and professional standards, to the demands of employers is provided through strategic partnerships with key employers in the region, as well as professional societies, and thus to develop qualifications, competence model of a graduate. The changes in the environment are reflected in the innovative solutions, all that in general leads to a stable dynamics of the university development.

The article focuses on the main aspects of international cooperation of Belgorod State National Research University aimed at increasing its internationalization level. In order to achieve the goals specific measures are introduced by NRU BelSU in three basic areas: 1) extension of export of educational services for the purpose of international students' recruitment for study; 2) development and realization of joint educational programs and projects with foreign partners; 3) support and increase of bilateral academic mobility of students and teaching staff. Detailed information on international student body, numbers of academic mobility of students and teaching staff, collaboration with partner universities and implementation ofjoint educational programs are specified. The Program ofForeign Languages Education is put forward as an important instrument of internationalization.

This paper addresses the system approach to the formation of the social and cultural environment at Belgorod State National Research University (NRU «BelSU »). The authors consider the basic components of the model of the identity of university graduating student, the main directions and forms of educational activity and extra curricular activities. Special attention is paid to the important aspects of health oriented educational system.

The article highlights the problem of the theory development and implementation of social technologies on the example of the scientific school at National Research University Belgorod State University. In 1990 L. Dyatchenko and N. Danakin created the chair of social technologies at Belgorod technological institute and became the leaders of the group of scholars. Later the school continued the researches at BelSU. According to the presented approach social technologies are viewed as a continuation and application of the general principles of production to the society functioning taking into account its specificity. The main results of scientific researches, challenges in scientific-theoretical, socio-cultural and practical sphere have been analyzed.

The article examines the functional capabilities of converged mass media in the modern information space and corporate media. The author considers the problems of the construction of convergent mass media edition, examines the impact of convergence in mass media and social processes on image positioning of the object in the modern information space.

The transformation of the sociocultural relations is accompanied by severe 147 crises and revolutions. These transformations are reflected in education systems. To develop the right strategy of Russian education it is important to identify the causes, the trends, and the perspectives of this education transformation. The visible trends corroborate that the current stage is a transition. The authors compare classical, distance and virtual learning systems and show the role, objectives and results of the participants of learning process. An active introduction of information technologies in learning process consumes the substantial resources of the whole society, but we shouldn’t underestimate the importance of virtual training systems development, otherwise Russia can loss the strategic advantages in the development of the entire education system. Application of virtual reality technology enables to enhance the training effectiveness by dozens of times. The article substantiates the necessity of forming a strategy of priority development of the virtual learning rather than distance learning and reveals the social, educational, scientific and technical problems of the group of virtual training systems.

The article focuses on the problems and prospects of implementing e-learning tools in training of future teachers. One of the ways to improve the effectiveness of training of students is to use blended learning, which combines multimedia learning and traditional tutoring with an emphasis on laboratory activities, the use of an interdisciplinary approach and e-learning. The mentioned approach facilitates obtaining competence and skills for organization of interactive educational process in schools and technical colleges. The ability to create, edit, share with multimedia objects of different types by using modern computer technologies will produce a beneficial effect on the formation of competence in multimedia communication.

The 15^th Frolov Readings, Science Conference was held on December 1, 2015 at the RAS Institute ofPhilosophy. I.T. Frolov was the founder of the integrated interdisciplinary approach to Human studies in philosophy and science in Russia. Philosopher became the initiator of creating of the RAS Institute of Human studies, which united the researchers in different areas. Academician I.T. Frolov considered human values to be the key regulative principles of cognition in the age when science has entered the "anthropology century". The value factor has a special significance in techno-science, which touches the biological foundations of human existence. The consequences of interference in genome, physiology, human mentality can be irreversible and fatal. This range of complex problems was discussed at the annual Frolov Readings.

This paper is the review of the monograph of prof. V.B. Chistyakov "Historical component in higher education" (Moscow: Moscow State Industrial University Publ., 2015), which addresses the topical problems of teaching history in higher school.