We present the results of our study of employment of PhD program graduates of a multidisciplinary research university. Career paths of graduates who have defended their Candidate of Sciences thesis and of those who did not submit the thesis for defense are analyzed. Some features of the employment of graduates who were enrolled in PhD programs in natural sciences and social sciences and humanities are considered. The need is emphasized to study and take into account career paths of graduates and employers’ requirements when designing PhD programs of a new type.

The article touches the issues of employment of graduates of educational institutions of Volgograd region. The authors analyze the contingent of students and faculty members of universities and university branches, activities of their centers to promote the employment of graduates. The results of monitoring of the regional labor market and skill( mix issue experts over the past 5 years.

The article considers the problems of management of quantity of teaching staff rates and the enrollment plan of educational organization of higher education on the basis of the contingent of students, working curricula and the target figures of reception (TFR). The enrollment plan is supposed consisting of TFR on the places financed by means of the state budget, and enrollment plan for a contractual basis of training. The given problems are solved in common on the basis of application of the mathematical model offered by authors.

The paper describes the World Engineering Education Forum 2014 in Dubai (WEEF 2014). A short history of this event is given. The Global Student Forum before WEEF2014 is described. The attention is drawn to opening ceremony and keynotes, highlights on IGIP, GED and IFEES under WEEF 2014 umbrella. Issues of globalization, joint research, attributes of global engineer, collaboration of universities and corporations, diversity and inclusion are discussed.

The paper describes the main achievements of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) in the process of organization and participation in the 2014 World Engineering Education Forum. IGIP members were presenters at the plenary and numerous parallel sessions, participated in the IGIP Award ceremony.

The different points of view presented at the World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF 2014) are discussed. The subjects of discussion in this paper are as follows: what should be in our day objectives, content, methods of teaching and learning tools, as well as methods for assessing educational achievements in engineering education. We have distinguished the dominant points of view: the goal is to prepare engineers able to create and implement projects under the ideas of «sustainable development», the content is determined by a multidisciplinary educational programmes designed taking into account the views of all interested parties, the main idea of the methods - student-oriented approach, wide using of e-learning, m-learning, evaluation of educational achievements in terms of developing the necessary competencies.

The paper describes School of Engineering of American University in Dubai. The brief historic overview for American University in Dubai and School of Engineering is provided. University’s and School’s organizational and administrative aspects are discussed. The structure of academic programs is discussed as well as their quality assessment. Faculty activities are described in details as well as enrollment requirements. Information about library, laboratory and technology resources is provided. University’s academic and research activities are reviewed in the context of its mission. University community engagement approaches are given.

The paper describes the trends of engineering education development, innovations and the best experiences of the world universities in training engineers, discussed at the eighth World Engineering Education Forum WEEF 2014 in Dubai. A special focus is given to the trends and experience in the Russian universities in training engineering educators and their professional development, globalization, internationalization of engineering education, problems of digital learning, training engineers for science intensive power engineering of the future.

Globally, universities today face at least four sets of challenges. The first is to meet the expectation to prepare people for jobs available in today’s globalized economy and to rethink yesterday’s teaching practices. Secondly, it is necessary to create an educational system that prepares students to work in fields that do not exist today, therefore, further investment in teachers’ skills should take place. Third, many scholars are pursuing their personal careers in an environment of high competition, so they are becoming politically and socially too “correct”. Fourth, Universities have to undergo structural reforms that in the long term will limit broader access to higher education. Universities need to change and undergo a transition from: (1) teacher-centric to learning-centric education, (2) classroom-based teaching to anyplace, anytime learning, (3) mandated courses to hyper-individualized learning, (4) a general population of consumers to a growing population of producers.

In the last decade the number of students enrolled on the first course of Russian universities, almost equal to the number of high school graduates. As a result the higher school teachers have to teach poorly motivated students with low levels of schooling. To increase the effectiveness of the training of these students the author encourages to use marketing technologies and simulate the process of learning as promotion (or even imposition) non(popular products (knowledge and skills) to weakly motivated buyers (the student). As a marketing tool we use some elements of influence technology developed by the American social psychologist Robert Cialdini. At the heart of these technologies are the basic socio( psychological stereotypes of personality. The action of such stereotypes as goodwill, mutual exchange, social proof and others was considered. The use of marketing tools in educationimproves leaning efficiency and reduces the psychological burden of a teacher, preventing the probability of professional burnout.

Industry throughout the world demands engineering graduates that are better prepared to support their organizations. Project (or problem) based learning (PBL) approach gives engineering students an opportunity to learn by doing and apply their training to realworld problems. Different styles of implementing PBL are described, and a special attention is given to one of the themes of PBL, gradual transition from solving close ended problems to addressing real world open ended problems. The ultimate project experience is described in a global international project which explores not only the technical challenges of an open project but also the challenges of working collaboratively with engineering students from different cultures.

One of the problems of modern higher education is disappearance of a fixed basic level of knowledge which is invariant in the different methods of teaching. Meanwhile, there is a necessary basic level of knowledge in any profession as a condition of professionalism. The article raises the question of the organizational and pedagogical resources for its formation within the competence approach.

The quality of higher education is an essential foundation for creating a common educational space of the Russian Federation. Monitoring can be considered as one of the mechanisms for assessment the quality of the educational environment at the university, which allows to react promptly and to correct the arising problems.The paper presents the experience in conducting environmental monitoring research studies at the university, views the basic research areas according to the processes oforganizational life cycle, gives some data on certain issues.

The article discusses the problem of integration of education and science, as embodied in the joint project, research, educational, organizational and methodological activities of the university educators. The article asserts that the local (at the level of faculties, departments, laboratories) communities, which are formed by educators may become the actors that ensure the overall development strategy of the university and vocational personal development of participants. The author characterizes the appropriate opportunities of the university scientific and educational centers. On the example of the scientific and educational center «Centre for Research and Innovation» of Sholom-Aleichem Priamursky State University there is represented a five-year experience of integrative activity based on actual multidisciplinary research. This allows to ensure training of highly qualified specialists, to develop and implement innovative educational programs. At the same time new stable collective subjects who are able to «get involved» in the process of overall development of the university have been forming.

The article deals with continuing education in the process of psycho-pedagogical training and retraining in the system of multi-level professional development. Offers basic conceptual and content aspects of the formation and improvement of professional competencies of the students of PGU named after Sholom-Aleichem in academic, extra-curricular (educational) work, while passing through various practices. Programmes for teachers’ retraining in postgraduate education include four basic modules: (1) “The main trends and the modern priorities in education”, (2) “The topical issues of learning and education. The innovative technologies in education”, (3) “Psychological studies of children and schoolchildren, remediation and prevention measures”, (4) “Methodical aspects of learning process organization”.

The article discusses the idea of implementing a competence activity approach to teachers’ training that involves changes in the content, forms and methods of educational activity of students as well as a radical transformation of teachers’ activities aimed at developing students’ experience in creative self-actualization. The author presents this approach in the context of a new scientific area - noosphere pedagogy, which she understands as a revival of spiritual culture through moral values of a self-actualized personality. Particular significance in this context acquires personal experience of self(realization, self-identity, which is based on emotional attitude to the work. Focusing on psycho-pedagogical knowledge the paper presents a model of creative self-actualization in the system of vocational teacher education at the University.

The paper is devoted to research which summarizes the five(year experience of the Department of remedial pedagogy, psychology and speech therapy aimed at improvement the quality of training of bachelors and master students of specialty “Defectology education (therapeutic pedagogy)” with a deep attention to the organization of students’ creative activity in educational process. The problem is considered in three aspects: motivational (personal), procedural (practical) and substantial (informational). Development of motivational aspect of this problem relies on results of interviewing and questioning of students, and reflects their subjective relation to future profession. The procedural aspect of the organization of students’ creative activity covers all innovative practices of teachers of the department of remedial pedagogics, psychology and speech therapy promoting development of creative potential of future bachelors and master students. The substantial aspect of a problem is directly connected with a professional activity of a therapeutic pedagogue and gives students the chance to showtheir pedagogical creativity. Our experience confirms that organization of creative work and educational process for students of remedial pedagogy specialty is one of necessary conditions for formation of special skills and personal virtues of bachelors and masters.

The article presents the experience of the magistracy in the direction of social work of the Department of the Service, advertising and social work of Sholom Aleichem Priamursky State University. The author substantiates the urgency of the problem of adult education in the magistracy, shows the difficulties the adult students face. The most common of these are: physiological, social, psychological, social, psychological and pedagogical. The quality of adult education can be improved by supporting the following principles of learning: self(study as a priority, joint activities, reliance on listener’s experience, individualization of learning, updating the learning outcomes, mindfulness of training. The experience shows that adults are motivated, independent, responsible, diligent, they are constantly engaged in self( education, self(development, they are interested in obtaining relevant information, and in applying new knowledge. Improving of the quality of learning process of postgraduates can be achieved through self(study, which stimulates their creativity. Graduates become more competitive on the labor market and gain additional opportunities for career growth.

The article is devoted to the language of pedagogical science. As a basic material, the author considers the published dissertation summaries on pedagogy. To attract the attention of the scientific community to this issue, the author has used the word “absurdities”. It conveys the researcher’s negligent attitude to scientific word, so that sometimes text loses its sense. This leads to misunderstanding and creates conceptual barriers, reduces the scientific value of research work.

The author presents a review of Irina Korotkina’s new book Academic Writing: Process, product and practice (Moscow: Urait, 2015). The validity of the book’s content and methodology is regarded within the new trends in the Russian education and the emergence of academic writing as a new discipline, although it has a long history in the Western tradition, reflected in the book.

The key theme of the article is the development of a feedback as one of the components of a medical student’s professional competence. The ability to establish a feedback with patients ensures the efficiency of communicative culture of a future doctor. It can be viewed as a special competence and a structural component of doctor’s communicative culture and therefore it needs special measures for formation.

The article highlights the results of the work of expert commission on the selection of candidates for scholarship of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation for post(graduate students in Academic Year 2014/15. Some academic and research achievements of the contestants are adduced. Special attention is paid to the shortcomings in contestants’ registration materials and to the recommendation for improvement of the candidates’ selection system.