The article proposes an algorithm for the development of educational programs of higher education in Russia, adapted from the “Tuning” methodology for the European educational standards. New possibilities for the development of modular educational programs are analyzed, taking into account new “framework” federal state educational standards (FSES 3+, and in future FSESB4). The article provides practical recommendations on the application of the competencies approach in the development and implementation of the educational programs of higher education.

The article presents the results of analysis of publication activity of dissertation councils’ members as a whole and separately for members of dissertation councils at universities. The analysis is based on the monitoring data of scientific activity of members of dissertation councils, held in 2013. The results showed significant differences in the values of indicators for different areas of science. This difference supposes a variety of approaches to the assessment and promotion of the publication activity of scientists in different fields of science.

The article analyses the characteristics of the discourse (and its methodological errors) on the state and development issues of engineering education in modern Russia. It shows the preferred method of «case study» in the analysis of problems and search for ways to develop the engineering education. It proposes a number of concrete measures for the development of national engineering education, including the transition to more flexible format of Federal State Educational Standard, inter-university cooperation, empowering universities and specialized departments engaged in preparing engineers.

The key theme of the article is training of teachers of professional disciplines at secondary and higher education levels. There is presented a teacher training model for colleges, secondary technical schools and universities including different trajectories. Vocational and pedagogical training carried out according to these schemes ensures integration of psychological, pedagogical, and branch technology training. Thus we achieve an optimal combination of highly skilled teacher and expert in technology. The curriculum of pedagogical disciplines both in basic and elective parts are given.The pedagogical component in post-graduate education as a new level of education should be enhanced. The presented model of postBgraduate training assumes various educational trajectories provided with relevant curricula.The first trajectory is based on bachelor’s and master’s degree of teacher’s training major. The second one is recommended for training of teachers of professional disciplines on the basis ofbachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering. The curricula promote humanitarization of engineering education, integration of engineering and pedagogical knowledge, allow to enhance and deepen qualification of a future engineering university professor, increase the quality of engineering teacher training.

The paper aims to analyze the features of interpretation of the notion of entrepreneurial university within the Triple Helix theory in the light of the capitalization of knowledge problem. Following the traditional understanding (B. Clark) the notion of entrepreneurial university connects the capitalization of knowledge with the external socioeconomic factors. At the same time, within the Triple Helix theory (H. Etzkowitz et al.) this notion gives a possibility to evaluatean internal dynamics of the capitalization of knowledge based on the analysis of the epistemological and cognitive roots of knowledge production.

The article is an attempt to reconstruct the major milestones of the state policy for the integration of science and higher education in the Soviet and postBSoviet era. It is shownthat oneofthe effective waysbecame therealization in the USSR the project of Academic University (MIPT, NSU) as a domestic variant of “Humboldt University”. In the postBSoviet periodthe emphasis was placed on developing a research university model of AngloBAmerican type, as a form of integration ofscience andhigher education with the leading role of university. With the same purpose a single field of higher education is divided into several sectors, among which we can see the highestBechelon of elite universities (federal and national research universities), strong specialized secondBechelon universities, and all other universities, especially regional. As a result, it is concluded that the state’s efforts to accelerate the transition of basic science to universities have not yielded the expected results.

The article focuses on the issues of formation of an elite segment of Russian higher school at the beginning of the XXIth century. After a lowBcontrolled process of a universitization of the 1990th the state used a new strategy in point of higher education institutions. Formation of a group of federal and national research universities has been carried out, combining administrative methods with competitive selection. As aresult, a number ofregional education institutions with high ranks in the system of higher education have raised their status. At the same time, the group of the elite included the littleBknown higher education institutions that have become new «growth points» branches within the country, but not on the international scene. The policy on forming of elite sector of higher school led to fixing of differentiation among higher education institutions, which took place before, but wasn’t legalized.

The paper describesthe experience of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) to host annual conferences and international forums where representatives of different countries of the world participate. The paper gives a comparative analysis of engineering education problems and their solutions in different countries and prospects for using the most successful international experience in Russia.Global innovative development is impossible without training competitive engineers who can create and implement groundbreaking technologies. Despite the fact that engineering education development is a national priority, it is impossible to avoid its internationalization. A number of international nonBprofit nonBgovernmental engineering education organizations aim at unitingthe faculty and administrators of engineering universities and the representativesof industry in order to develop joint solutions and improve thequality of engineering education worldBwide. The most popular of these organizations are Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurpädagogik IGIP, Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (SEFI), Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and etc.ASEE is one of the organizations implementing global scale activities. For over 120 years the society has hosted annual conferences to gather over 3,000 participants from the USA and other countries. The initiative of the last three years is the International Forum under the umbrella of these conferences. The Forum is the platform for international engineering education organizations to hold the plenary sessions where they can presentthe current state of engineering education in their countries, share their views and discuss their problems. Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (SEFI) and Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) participated in the 2014 International Forum as partner societies and presented their views on engineering education development. The President of SEFI Kamel Hawwash gave a verydetailed report on European engineering education stressing that the global crisis that we face is the crisis in engineering competencies, which do not satisfy the requirements of the employers. The Professor of Dublin Institute of Technology Mike Murphy spoke about engineering education in Ireland under the forthcoming fusion of institutes and universities to introduce a new vision of engineering programs. The President of Global Engineering Deans Council Jose Carlos Quadrado focused on Portugal, where engineering universities are overcoming a crisis and going through restructuring aimed at training engineers capable of creating new job instead of being employed. The Executive Director of LACCEI Maria M. Larrondo Petrie gave an overview of engineering education in Latin America in the light of Vision 2025 approved in these countries. The focus in the Vision is on innovations, human resource training, and national quality infrastructure and technology development.The plenary session reports showed that the main trends in both parts of the world today are very similar. They include fusions of universities to reach new goals and enhanced collaboration with industry to develop the newly demanded programs. Another issue for the Latin American countries is the poor English language command which influences the competitiveness of the engineers. A number of measures are taken to improve the EFL teaching approaches, and they are similar to the ones in Russia. The low representation of women in science and engineering is another issue for Latin America, and LACCEI takes efforts to increase their number.The International Forumplenary sessions were followedby three tracks ofsessions: student development, faculty development and curriculum and laboratory development. Kazan National Research Technological University gave two oral reports at the faculty development track on the role of the President’s Program of training engineers in improvement of the research university educational activity and on a focused curriculum improving the written English of Russian speaking engineers.The 2014 International Forum was followed by the 121st ASEE Annual Conference to discuss different issues of engineering education. The Conference was a very large scale event, and included 2 plenary sessions, 6 distinguished lectures, 132 business meetings, around 300 technical sessions, 27 workshops, 20 poster sessions, and around 50 panel sessions. The Conference was sponsored by a number of the US and international companies, including National Instruments, NCEES, Dassault Systemes, The MathWorks, Boeing, and etc. This year, Purdue University School of Engineering and Technology, University of Notre Dame College of Engineering, Valparaiso University Engineering, Trine University, and RoseB Hulman Institute of Technology were the host institutions in Indianapolis.The main plenary session was remarkable for the National Student Award Winners recognized by the ASEE President Kenneth Galloway. The students were invited onto the stage, and short videos to introduce their achievements were shown on screens. After the plenary, the students participated in a special press conference, an outstanding experience for them. The 2014 ASEE President’s Award was given to Ioannis Miaoulis and the National Center for Technological Literacy at the Museum of Science, Boston for making a special use of print, broadcast, and electronic media to encourage KB12 students to pursue an engineering career, and to both influence public opinion and gain recognition of the critical role that engineering plays in today’s technologyBdriven society.The main plenary also featured Keynote Speaker Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., President of Purdue University, a strong supporter of engineering education. He became President of Purdue in January 2013; in the past he was twoBterm governor of Indiana, and, earlier, he worked in the White House during Ronald Reagan’s presidency and later served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush.Mitchell Daniels spoke about history of Purdue as the university to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts. These competencies are still very important nowadays. In the world driven by technical innovations, the system of engineering education is facing criticism, challenges, and new competitors. There are new questions which were never asked until the last 10 years regarding the large numbers of college students, the poor skills they obtain, the real value of their diplomas. Today, engineering education is at the time of testing which requires innovative approaches to answer the questions of what to teach, how to teach and to whom we teach. Purdue answers the latter question by freezing the tuition fee for the next two years so that the most talented young people could afford studying there. In terms of how to teach, Purdue promotes new modes of teaching and transforms the majority of courses into hybrid teaching. In terms of what to teach, Purdue produces more STEM graduates than many other US universities. Moreover, they are expanding the Engineering College, as these programs are most needed and valuable. The experience of China and India shows that when young people see the centrality of engineering skills, the individual and the societal success grows.Mitchell Daniels believes that the USA need 10,000 more engineering graduates annually. And even if the country outruns the market’s need for engineers, this will be a good outcome, because the engineering mentality will take amore prominent place in the nation. The keynote speech of Mitchell Daniels was followed by a number of questions from the audience, showing a good feedback.The following three days of the Conference were very intensive in business meetings, technical sessions and other events. Kazan National Research Technological University presented an oral report on an integrated university/industry program of improving Russian industrial trainers at continuing professional development division technical session.The lastday ofthe Conference was remarkable for the ASEE International Council meeting which gathered the representatives of different international societies to discussthe prospects of collaboration with ASEE. The preliminary arrangements were made about the possible participation of Kazan National Research Technological University and National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University in the 2015 International Forum to represent the partner society, Association for Engineering Education of Russia.

The article focuses on the conditions of formation of intercultural communications as a specific form of interaction in foreign audience by an example of the Chinese contingent. The paper aims to show the specificity of preBuniversity training of the Chinese students at Russian higher education institution and to give recommendations to teachersBexperts. While modeling of pedagogical situations it is necessary to reckon with national mentality of foreign pupils and define a number of pedagogical conditions to ensure an intercultural dialogue in a foreign audience including theoretical knowledge of teachers working with foreign audience in the field of ethnopsychology and ethnopedagogics and their psychoBpedagogical preparation. Skills and abilities of intercultural communication facilitate students’ adaptation to a new cultural environment and promote their further studying at Russian university.

In 2014 Yaroslavl State Medical Academy celebrates the 70th anniversary. Academywas found in 1944 in the days of II World War and since that time plays an important role in the system of higher medical education in our country and in educational, scientific and social life of Yaroslavl region. Today Yaroslavl State Medical Academy is the large educational andscientific center with adeveloped imageof reliable business andsocial partner. The article describes main features of educational system, including practical training on the different education levels, employment assistance system, clinical research and scientific school development, innovative pedagogical technologies, student extracurricular cultural activities, management system and development potential.

Yaroslavl State Medical Institute was opened (1944) during the Great Patriotic War. This event had a deep backstory; this article is devoted to its consideration. The medical faculty at the Yaroslavl State University was at the rootofhigher medical education in Yaroslavl. Faculty of Medicine relied on the basis created in the preBrevolutionary period: scientific potential and experience in training of paramedical personnel accumulated by Yaroslavl doctors, network of medical institutions. Faculty activities that attracted the best doctors of Yaroslavl to teaching, laid the foundation for the future of higher medical education.

One of the main conditions of modern education development is continuous improvement of educational quality management. Raising of state and society requirements to specialists“ education, cardinal law reforms and strengthening of state governing and control functions necessitate educational quality management implementation and development. The article describes the experience of system approach to the problem at Yaroslavl State Medical Academy. Internal quality education control system at Yaroslavl State Medical Academy is a part of common quality management system, which is working under supervise of Academy Quality Management Service. Internal quality education control is carried out in several directions: control of educational management efficiency, control of requirements and satisfaction of internal and external customers, control of educational programs, control of preparation, organization and realization of educational process, students’ research and extracurricular activities and resources supply of main processes. Some of these processes are described in the article.

The article presents the basic stages of the history, modern stage, sections of scientific students’ work, achievements and thebasic perspective directions ofstudents’ science development at the Yaroslavl State Medical Academy. The Students’ Scientific Society of the Academy now includes 50 research circles and involves about 800 students.

The development of social education in modern Russia became an important part of an overall process of social and innovative modernization of Russian society. Implementing of the educational standardin thefield of social workin Yaroslavl State Medical Academy confirms propriety of the development of socially oriented educational programs at higher medical school.

The article examines the traditions of education and upbringing of students at the Yaroslavl Medical Academy. Among the best university traditions there are those which have a long history and also newborn. It is shown how adherence to tradition becomes a real instrument for formation the spiritual culture of students, attaching them to the standards of the medical community, the best examples of Russian culture, historical memory.

Tomsk polytechnic university experience in organization of selfBinstruction work for bachelor and master degree students is discussed in the paper. SelfBinstruction work are organized on projectBbased cooperative learning methodology in studying physics - developing innovative ideas for implementation. The model of cooperative learning based on transformation of a standard problem to a project is developed and discussed. The model implementationis realized through specially designed virtual learning environment to provide development of competences prognosed to be in demand. Project work includes elements of development by students of their own product as a result of a learning process. Study guides and teaching aids have been developed; they contain system of tasks and assignments, which serve as a basis for approximating students learning activities to practical performance. As a result, students master methodology and means of performance realization, which can be implemented in research and development, design works.

This article considers the author’s understanding of solution the problem of variative bachelors’ training. Variation isconsidered as a principle of organizing structure and content of training process on different stages of education system. The individual students’ itineraries and individual educational modules are designed on the base of variative approach. The author represent the conception of variative education in the sphereof music. The structure of educational process is considered as the complex of universal and variative units. It allows to form the unique content of individual itineraries and educational modules, taking into account peculiarities of courses and training profiles.

This paper deals with the problem of teaching students of nonBlanguage high schools in foreign language speech activity from the point of psycholinguistic and lingvodidactic research, touching cognitive, activityBbased and communicative aspects of speech of an individual, who is able to perceive the other’s speech and formulate his thoughts, discussing issues of the future career.

The article discusses a practice of lithographing lecture notes, which was widespread in students’ community in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century. These editions played a significant role in learning process and make a noticeable part of educational book repertory in preBrevolutionary Russia. The article focuses on students’ publishing activity in the second half of the 19th century. During this period main parts of works were formed and characteristic features of students’ publishing activity were developed. Such stages of publishing process as obtaining the professor’s consent, recording and editing of a manuscript, sending the manuscript to a lithographic workshop are examined carefully. Attention is paid for relationships between students, professors, and members of academic administration.

The article describes the activities of two student scientific associations that existed in 1920B1920s: the Circle for the study of Aeronautics and the Section of interplanetary connections, organized with an interval of twenty years in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Institute of communications engineers. The author analyzes the main results of the activities of these organizations and shows the role of their supervisor Prof. Nikolay A. Rynin.

The article traces the history and development of the Faculty of Music Education of I.A. Bunin Elets State University, dwells upon the main areas of its activity, shows its role for Elets’ social and cultural life.

The article focuses on the problem of preparing future teachers of primary school to conduct a special work aimed at harmonization of interethnic relations between pupils. The author suggests suitable topics for students’ research works. The author believes that this work should begin from the very beginning of children staying at school, and the teacher should be ready to work in the classes with ethnic diversity staff. While preparing research works on this topic students can look deeper into the problems of international relations, and also to change their own outlook. The article also discusses the difficulties that students and their supervisors may face while preparing research papers.

The experience of the Faculty of preBuniversity and continuing education of the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Prof. V.F. VoynoBYasenetsky aimed to attract careerBoriented applicants who have got a preBuniversity training including learning of special for medical school subject courses. The article presents a comprehensive approach that includes new forms of organization of preBuniversity educational programs for applicant’s preparation, which include fullBtime courses and distance learning cycles; career guidance activities and attracting for applicants to participate in the competition of scientific works. One of the new forms of preBuniversity training is a special medical practice for applicants. For the first time it was organized in 2013.