The article discusses the strategy and tactics of managing the development of young university professors recruited for a permanent job in higher education institutions. The authors outline the key problems arising during the period of their professional and psychological adaptation. One of the main problems is a low efficiency of a new generation of teaching staff. Therefore University HR-policy should formulate strategic goals and approaches of primary development of young professors. Particular attention is paid to the role of personal supervisors and from among the most experienced professors of a department. The authors offer to use special control and evaluation procedures including public attestation to confirm the successful completion of professional and psychological adaptation process of an intern.

Some results of an analysis and evaluation of the CDIO Syllabus topicality for the level engineering programs (BEng, MSc and PhD) design are presented. The analysis is based on a comparison of the CDIO Syllabus v2 intended learning outcomes with the requirements to preparation of the various engineering program graduates to complex, innovative and research activities. The requirements are defined taking into consideration the Russian Federal State Educational Standards and the Association for Engineering Education of Russia criteria, harmonized with the international standards. The results of an examination of the CDIO Syllabus v2 made by trainees of the Russian CDIO Academy are used.

The law «On Education in the Russian Eederation» dated 29.12.2012 number 273-EZ defines postgraduate program as a program at the third level of higher education. The article considers the risks related to the low structuring of the created three-tier system of higher education. An international practice is analyzed together with the methodologies and managerial decisions that possibly may be applied in Russian universities. A model structure of the postgraduate school curriculum is proposed.

The article considers the causes of decline in the prestige of higher technical professional education in Russia. Basing on their analysis the author proposes measures aimed at improving the quality ofhigher educational institution graduates and the status of technical specialists. These activities include: development of a strategic plan for the development of higher professional education, a system of vocational guidance of graduates of secondary educational institutions; improvement of quality of preparation of faculty and development of effective system of teacher training; measures for raising the quality of educational process and development of an effective system of graduate training; development of the obj ective criteria for the assessment of the effectiveness of university activities; development of a system of Patriotic education of students of secondary and higher educational institutions; increase of the salaries of specialists, influencing the country's economic development. The proposed measures are expected to improve the status and prestige of the profession ofhigher school teacher.

Actual questions of development and implementation of educational programs in accordance with federal state educational standards of higher education in a technical university are under consideration in the article, including the role of some educational subjects in forming the resulting competence-based profile of a graduate student. Organizational and methodic approaches to the procedure of evaluation of preparedness of a graduate student to his / her forthcoming professional activity are also in focus of the article as well as the forms of participation of an employer in implementation of educational program of graduate training. The article also traces the relevance of connection between «non-core » subjects with professional ones in a curriculum and professional tasks defined by the federal state educational standards. The ability of a student to complete professional tasks is considered as a priority in evaluating his/her preparedness to the forthcoming professional activity while taking practical training and at State Final Certification.

The explores the prerequisites of the engineering activities in conditions of the formation of knowledge-based society. Relevance and demand of advanced engineering education, new forms of content and implementation have been specially noted. The article reveals the basic principle of the classical Russian school of engineering polytechnic education based on the integration of education, science and industry, effective interaction and cooperation with industry and research organizations. The example of organization and operation of the branch of the Faculty of National Research Technical University based on the integrated system of education and continuous research and production practice of students has been represented.

The article shows the relevance of studying the issues related to the mismatch between the education system and labor market, particularly employment out of qualification field. The study draws attention to the parameters that determine this process including performance, compliance with special abilities and inclinations, work experience for the last year, sphere related to specialty. The study shows the importance of professional self-improvement for the majority of students, and reveals that an increase in the educational level leads to an increase in this aspiration. A positive decision on employment in qualification field is more likely to be taken under the conditions of good academic performance and greater correspondence between abilities, aptitudes and future profession. The study reveals that employment intention depends on the type of employment and occupation: a positive result is more likely to be achieved among military, engineering and technical personnel engaged in socially-oriented fields and management. Furthermore, in case of the smallest gaps between the existing and desired directions of professional training, average wages in the majority of cases will be higher (except for socially-oriented fields).

Student youth is considered as a specific age community. Its development has inherent temporal characteristics and complex temporal contradictions. Among the temporal characteristics the authors mark out the extension of the age limits of student community, increasing the duration of educational activity, change of time budget. The paper shows how these characteristics affect the age parameters of students as a social community. In this connection the article reveals the author's understanding of age and age community. The problem is the discrepancy between students' biological, psychological and social time manifested in physical and sexual development, secondary employment, time use. The paper examines the influence of social factors on the dynamics of students' biological, psychological and social time.

The article analyzes market and non-market factors affecting demand for professors in the Russian higher education institutions. Some attention is also paid to the factors that influence the wage elasticity of the demand in the teacher labour market. The authors divide the factors that determine the demand in the market into two groups: extensive factors related to the changes in the demand for educational services ofhigher education institution and intensive factors related to the changes in workload of professors. To assess the importance of the factors affecting the labour market demand the correlation calculations were carried out.

In growing competition between universities from all over the world, the evaluation of student's experience in the university becomes very important and crucial for management decisions. The article discusses the results of applying the method of measuring the quality of university life (QCL - quality of college life), developed by American researchers of higher education on the basis of sociological studies of quality of life. This technique provides a comprehensive assessment of student satisfaction with university experience and can be used not only for internal monitoring and management decision-making, but also for inter-institutional comparisons.

The article is devoted to the problem of daily routine, which today has become a subject of active research in Humanities and Social Sciences. The author believes that it is also interesting for pedagogical science and gives her opinion on the need of its pedagogical study.

The article considers the key points of professional language training of IR students. The authors analyze the interrelated conditions that determine its effectiveness: building professionally relevant competences, specifics of professional language training,cross-cultural awareness, the use of educational technologies as well as selection of teaching materials and re-training lecturers.

The article discusses most pressing issues of arranging post-graduate educational process for academic staff training at the present stage. The arrival of the new Federal State Educational Standards ofhigher education prompts more acceptable solutions to problems facing educational organizations. Special attention is paid to working out post-graduate courses of double training with international partner universities to make it possible for the national educational organizations to join on equal terms the world's academic community.

The article describes the experience of MGIMO-University in organizing educational activities with a stress on axiological aspect. The authors analyze the trends in developing civic and social competences of students in the process of getting involved in various scientific, education and social projects.

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) is a leading Russian educational and scientific center, following the latest educational trends. For all its history, MGIMO-University is continuing to remake itself and today it offers more than forty MA programs taught both in Russian and English. The article presents unique advantages and opportunities provided by MGIMO to its students. Moreover, it focuses on the widest range of MA programs available in a university of its type anywhere.

The article proves the need for new forms of organization of universities, the relevant market economy and information society. The authors analyze innovative activities of MGIMO-University, which trains specialists for civil service and business structures actively developing organizational and content bases of educational and scientific activities. The article considers the provisions of the Law on Education of the Russian Federation concerning the activities of educational institutions and management. The use of the term "university as an educational organization" symbolizes the transition to a new paradigm of organization and management of university development, which allows it to be competitive in the new environment.

The article considers the natural obstacles to the implementation of the competence approach in Russian higher education. They are caused by extrasystemic (regardless of pedagogy) genesis of the concept of «competence », which is rather cost estimation category in the labor market and is not a constructive parameter, at least in the intermediate stages of mid-term assessment in higher education institution. An attempt to use Western descriptors (in the framework of the «Bologna obligations») in Russia proved to be inefficient due to the significant disparities in education systems, which have different civilizational roots. From a pedagogical point of view the recurrent (as in the experiments of the 1920s) mixing of the «activity» and «learning » is a didactic nihilism, and not «a competence paradigm ». The scope of applicability of the competence-based approach in domestic conditions should be limited to a few specializations with a strong «executive » specifics, but for the most educational profiles should not go beyond the final certification and the previous work experience or internship.

The author pays attention of the scientific and pedagogical community to one of the aspects of pedagogical search - the influence of results of scientific and pedagogical researches on the quality of pedagogical innovations in educational practice and the quality of training highly qualified teachers. The pedagogical search is considered as an integrated, interdisciplinary phenomenon of modern science. The author reveals the concept «methodological competence » of a teacher-researcher. The attention of the teacher-researcher focuses on the productive search of the evidence-based research.

The article presents a technology of tutor support of participants in the educational events within the system for teacher further training. Tutor support is understood as a tutor's purposeful activity facilitating the maximum entry of a teacher into the context of a modern educational practice. This activity promotes his (her) formation as a subject of professional development, and fosters the development of his (her) individual motives and values. Subjectivity of a participant of educational event is manifested in the ability to become a strategist of his (her) professional activities, to set and adjust personal goals, to realize the reasons to construct his (her) own actions and to assess their compliance with what was intended, to plan individual professional development, and to communicate effectively with colleagues.

Modernization of Health Care in Russia formed new modern approaches in preparing future specialists in medicine. This article outlines new methods of three-stage preparation of students using simulation technics and involving the students in the role of a simulator for modeling different clinical situation cases. The developed method of preparation and improvement of professional skills of medical students allows to study algorithms of first aid in critical cases more deeply, to learn emergency medical manipulations, to be able to evaluate the results of performed manipulations. Elements of this method can be used in different stages of educational process: in development of practical skills in emergency care, in training to render the first aid in traumas and wounds, and in state attestation.