The experience in elaborating the forestall university strategy and the assessment of its role in the development of innovative educational programs is under consideration. It is outlined that the substantial amount of resources and effort needed for implementation of such innovative programs require thorough selection of priorities in development accepted by the university community. The authors single outthe important role of project management in integration with university partners.

The leading Russian universities who are actively developing today new forms of networking are able not only to create a large volume of the relevant electronic content, but also to change the system of production and consumption of knowledge.An aim of the project «Networked electronic library of the federal universities» is to create a common virtual space for access providing to educational, scientific, methodological information.Distinctive features of the project are: the creation of a technological platform and organizational methods for the development and use of the joint educational programs of the federal universities; an automation of key business processes which are necessary for the organization of the legitimate placement of scientific and educational literature in open access and for the commercialization of the full-text electronic content of the federal universities; an implementation of additional services for advancement of the federal universities in the scientometric databases and for monitoring of the distant educational process.

The paper offers for discussion the restructuring of higher education institutions during transition period towards the effective management of main educational programs. The pessimistic and optimistic scenarios of organizational change are proposed. The authors problematize the principles of the university structure and the quality management system of main educational programs.

The article discusses a comprehensive professional profile of amodern university professor in Russia with his various and interrelated teaching, research and educational responsibilities. The author endorses the view that the training of new teaching staff is extremely important and constitutes the backbone of any institution of higher education. The author believes that high quality programmes for professional development of university professors and administrators are essential for further successful development of higher education.

The submitted article is an attempt to comprehend the changes taking place with the university teacher during his/her career. Through reflection of her own state of mind, the author actualizes the problem of loss the professional activity’s meaning, alienation, and distortion of the professional values. Today the teacher’s activity is assessed only by the formal indices so it loses its meaning and essence. The result of hypercontrol and bureaucratization of this sphere is transformation of education into its imitation and one of the forms of social control.

The article analyzes thepsychological problems of theprofessional development of higher school teachers. The author substantiates the need in applying person2oriented technologies in teachers’ skill upgrading system. The author examines the teaching studio and art therapy techniques as a specific means of training and professional development of university teachers.

Student’s temporal behavior strategies as a special way of formation and realization of their human capital are considered. The article contains data of theoretical and empirical research of students’ temporal behavior strategies. Contradictions of temporal consciousness of students, the reasons of their emergence are shown. The article presents some types of students’ temporal behavior strategies.

The article considers the global and Russian experience in creating anticorruption policy and academic ethics in higher education institutions, analyzes different forms of corruption and academic misconduct in the West and in Russia, factors of corruption and dishonest behavior in academic environment. The main directions of anticorruption policy in higher education include adoption of ethical codes and other ways of shaping “culture of integrity” in contemporary higher education. The modified academic code accentuates the issues of academic honesty and ethics, includes sanctions and punishments for its infringement, formulates concrete and intelligible standards and regulations.

The article discusses the problem of content structure of competence2oriented learning. It is argued that the key issue in this problem is the way to transfer competencies of a graduate into learning content of educational program. Integrative and beyond2disciplinary nature of the competencies requires changes to traditional disciplinary model. A concept is proposed, according to which firstly the structure of the learning outcomes is designed and then it turns into the content of the structural units of the learning process.

The paper observes the comparative study of the requirements of a new version of Federal Educational Standards (known as FES 3+), international CDIO Standards and professional accreditation criteria of the Association for Engineering Education of Russia (AEER), aligned with EUR2ACE Framework Standards for Accreditation of Engineering Education и Washington Accord Standards. The authors give recommendations on implementation of FES 3+, CDIO Standards and AEER accreditation criteria in designing, performing and quality evaluation of engineering educational programmes.

The article deals with the developed and implemented at the International Innovative University new electronic learning technologies giving the effect of «social learning.» These technologies are characterized by open information and communication space supported by multimedia learning tools and hypermedia.

The article deals with the role of the International Innovative University in the national science development. The innovative structure for the of the organization research activities attheUniversity including research institutes, sceintific laboratories, and innovation, technology and consulting centres is considered. The university accomplishes fundamental research, applied research and development, implementation of study results into educational process and into practice. The university possesses its own business incubator for commercialization of study research and for aquiring professional skills by students.

The article considers the theoretical and methodological platform for development education and training process at the International Innovative University. An integrated system for organization of educational, scientific, research and educational activities at the University is an educational platform for implementation of the most advanced educational technologies.

The article analyzes the problem of formation of productive communicative students’ behavior on the base of a new methodological platform of personal development 2 the theory of network education. The article reviews the influence of the information environment on the formation of personality communicative stereotypes. Formation of students’ communicative culture is basedon using a special speech repertoireduring systematic repeated training work.

The article is devoted to the results of the annual All2Russian competition for the best scientific book in 2013 conducted among university professors and academic staff of research institutions. The annual competition is held on the base of the International Innovative University in Sochi. There have been presented more than 4,000 books in 2014.

The article is devoted to innovative technologies of patriotic education, developed on the base of the humanization of education theory and introduced in the International Innovative University. The authors analyze the role of the Association of scientific, technical and creative intellectuals created by the University in patriotic education. There are also considered the innovative forms of tutorial work such as the journal «Patriot: our time» published by the University, website «Fatherland».

The article examines education of engineering workforce as one of the priority areas for the US education system development, analyzes the structure of undergraduate engineering programs, discusses the quality of engineering education, as well as the issue of meeting the requirements of the labor market and other problems of the USeducation system, related to education of highly2qualified specialists in engineering.

The article discusses the key factors of successful recruitment of international members of Faculty and the main stages of the process of search and employment of international employees. The article is written on the basis of the analysis of experience of foreign and Russian universities successfully attracting foreign specialists for extending length of time.

The article is devoted to the processes of formation of educational space of the Asia2Pacific region. It describes the participation of Russia in cooperation in the region in the field of higher education, recommendations for further integration of our country into the educational processes that take place in Asia and for the successful formation of a common educational space of the Asia2Pacific region.

Aiming at improving the quality of teaching mathematics at higher educational institutions authors discuss one of the instruments - workbook complexes which can beimplemented as an element of educational and methodical complex as well as one of the assessment means.

Social-role interaction is a form of organization of communication in the classroom by exchanging of information in an artificial language environment. Pragmatic factors of the communicative situation, the role andactions in the foreign language community standards of conduct are set outside. Students communicate in the proposed situations in accordance with accepted standards. At the same time in the communication process, students identify themselves with a given role, interpreting the methods and standards of behavior that are typical for the role of foreign language culture, from the perspective of their own ideas, experiences and values. «Living» this role, students realize the effects of foreign culture, and thus perceive it, which generally contributes to the formation of their intercultural communicative competence. The article gives an analysis of the problems reported by teachers in the organization of social-role interaction during foreign language lessons. Describes the ways and techniques in order to improve social-role interaction aimed at improving cross-cultural communicative competence of students. Socio-role interaction does not take much time, if teacher has a clear purpose, theknowledge ofthe basicrules and compliance milestones. These stages are: 1) motivation, 2) the creation of social and cultural background of the interaction of languages and cultures, 3) cooperation in cross-cultural interaction, 4) the presentation of group decisions, and 5) reflection.