The paper analyzes in a polemical form the typical aberrations and myths (common as for officials from science governance, and, often, for the scientists) about the possibility and expediency of using formal bibliometric indicators to assess the working efficiency of individual and collective research activities.

The article deals with the formation processes of engineering tasks in the projects of fundamental science related to the class of mega8science, problems of use of the resulting knowledge to improve the professional level of the engineering corps and their importance for the development of Russia’s economy.

Implementation of the competency approach in modern state educational standards radically changed an approach to the solution of many issues, including the issue of education outcomes evaluation. The problems of transition from assessing knowledge and skills to the evaluation of competencies are considered. Several variants of this assessment are suggested.

The article focuses on the processes of the origin and development of engineering pedagogy in Russia. Special attention is paid to the role of MADI in a large8scale inter8 university project aimed at the creation of centers for engineering pedagogy with a network structure. The specific feature of such structure is that all its elements have an ability to intercommunicate. The article dwells on the creation in MADI University an active mechanism providing such a possibility. Its functions are performed by a regularly organized at the University Inter8university methodological seminar for Engineering Education. This seminar is based on the principles of subject8subject interaction of the participants, cooperation and creativity. The teamwork contributes to the development of the significant objectives and to designing models of their achievements in terms of self8organization.

The article presents the analysis results of Federal State Educational Standards of higher professional education for highly qualified personnel level of training. It considers the distinctive features of postgraduate educational standards in comparison with federal state requirements to the structure of the basic professional educational program of postgraduateeducation and standards of other levels of higher education. The authors suggest a generalized algorithm for postgraduate curriculum development within competency format and give recommendations on how to form the list of professional competencies. The paper also introduces some examples of formulating professional competencies for various training profiles and provides a fragment of the curriculum on the direction 27.06.01 Management in technical systems.

The article highlights the concept of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) teachers’ qualification improvement. The article is devoted to the training of teaching staff of engineering, economic, medical educational institutions of higher and additional professional education to a wide application of innovative educational technologies in the context of new requirements to the quality of educational process. The article presents a new concept based on the holistic organization of educational process, where the educational programs are focused on individual features of a person belonging to a specific professional group.

The article is devoted to studying of changes in professional preferences of graduates of schools in several points of time. In 1965 there was held an original empirical research of Leningrad sociologist Vera Vodzinskaya. 30 years later, in 199481995, the diploma projects on the basis of surveys of graduates of 5 schools of St. Petersburg were carried out. As in the first basic research there was used a list format (from 55 to 60 units) professions, a set of estimation criteria (from 5 to 8), a scale with 1810 points. In 50 years, in 2014, the diploma project of Aleksandra Stepantsova was realized (58 professions, 8 criteria, and a 108points scale). Research studies were carried out by graduates - sociologists of S.8Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. When preparing a format of survey every time it was necessary to solve two main problems: (1) which professions to include into a list for estimation (because one part of professions disappeared, others appeared, and also it was necessary to keep a part of professions as a base for comparison) and (2) what criteria to use for estimating professions (it was required to fill up the list of criteria in order to specify essential details of a situation with professional representations of modern graduates of schools). There is also one more serious limiter exists - the volume of the task offered to school students (it is possible to use only two lessons for the survey - 90 minutes). The aim of this article is to represent the results of research82014 in a comparative context with other researches, to mark emphases on the changes revealed.

The authors analyze the results of a qualitative study of the temporal behaviour strategies of representatives of the research pedagogical and scientific community, investigate the temporal behaviour strategies in the context of cognitive, emotional and behavioral aspects by using the method of depth semiformalized interview. The temporal behavior strategies of university professors are considered as a specific method of forming and realization of their human capital.

Strengthening of competition among universities requires special demands on the quality of the scientific and educational process and university management system. Within the existing system of university quality management it is important to consider controlling. Controlling system acts as a conceptual and methodological basis for integration and coordination of university management, as an instrument of formation and future accounting feedback in the process of governance. For research universities it is particularly important to establish a system of controlling considering a large number of software development activities, as well as indicators of their achievement.

The article briefly describes the features of construction of the educational process in such monoprofile and small by modern standards university, as Novosibirsk Law Institute (branch) of Tomsk State University, the organization of students’ life at the institute, the special position of the Institute in the educational, scientific and political communities of Siberian region and the country.

This article analyzes the model of the formation of research schools and directions in a monoprofile institution (branch) of national research university on an example of the functioning, development and organization of research and teaching work at Novosibirsk Institute of Law (branch) of Tomsk State University. The authors highlight the elements of the model of research schools formation for this type of educational institutions.

In 2014 the First International Student Film Festival took place in Novosibirsk Law Institute (branch) of the National Research Tomsk State University. The festival organizersare going to hold it every year and offer to consider the project as an innovative teaching tool for law students, as well as an effective form of legal education and legal training for the general population - according to the fundamentals of the state policy in the sphere of legal literacy and legal awareness of citizens of the Russian Federation.The authors formulate here a proposal for the further development of legal science in the paradigm of creating multimedia diversified applicative solutions: training films, short manuals and booklets, manuals and programs outlined in an accessible, concise manner. This will make an important step towards the convergence of legal science and practice, the modernization of legal sciences, and most importantly - to improve the effectiveness of law enforcement, to an increase in legal culture and consciousness of the population.

During studentship a strong personality socialization takes place, the person determines his (her) values, cultivates civil position. At this period young people are making plans for the future, therefore the educational work at higher education institution has a special role. The article highlights the features of citizenship and patriotism education in law school on the example of the activities of the student self8government structures of Novosibirsk Law Institute (branch) of Tomsk State University.

In the history of the Institute the author highlights three stages of its development and gives a description of each of them. For the first time in a single article it is provided a brief biographies of the heads of the university, their merits in the development of the educational institution were marked. It is shown that the current achievements of the Novosibirsk Law Institute (branch) of Tomsk State University have been created due to the selfless work of several generations of lawyers.

The objective of this paper is to investigate the pedagogical impact of mobile voting tools on creating collaborative environment at university lecture courses and getting immediate feedback from large classes. Our research demonstrated that integration of mobile voting app Student Response System (SRS) created in Norwegian University HiST (Trondheim) influenced not only lecture design - time management, the mode of material presentation, activity switch patterns - but also learners8teacher interaction, student collaboration and output, formats of activities and tasks. SRS supported lectures help instructors gradually get the grasp of a new type of digital classroom - flipped classroom, and then, in the long run, MOOC lecturing. The analysis based on qualitative and quantitative data collected from 56 undergraduate students showed that SRS supported lectures enhance their motivation, improve their intercultural competence and language skills.

This article highlights some aspects of historical and educational research from the standpoint of methodology. It contains the results of the study of dissertations’ methodological framework on the history of education and pedagogical thought performed in modern Russia. The authors analyzed the problem of formulating the relevance, objectives and hypotheses for this kind of work, recommendations on improving the quality of research procedures in order to increase the validity of research results.

The author considers key issues concerning quoting, referencing and using sources in academic writing faced by Russian students and specialists when dealing with international requirements of Western universities and publishers.

The article discusses the topical questions of formation of university teachers’ competences needed in conditions of education modernization. To solve this problem anappropriate system of university teachers’ training and retraining is required. Modern teacher must have a set of specific competences including such groups as functional, research and pedagogical, personal, and ethical. Meanwhile, the lecturer is in a situation where, on the one hand, the administration increases the load, and tightens the requirements, and on the other hand, the students exert pressure on teachers. In this situation universities should create the appropriate conditions to motivate teachers to improve their qualification, to update continuously learning methods.