The article focuses on the professional standards features and benefits. These documents represent the current requirements for modern qualifications. The authors provide step-by-step algorithm for updating and development of educational standards and educational programs to meet the requirements of professional standards.

The paper considers the evolution of the state educational standards of higher education and the experience of leading Russian universities in the development and implementation of self-established educational standards. The peculiarities of creating their own educational standards in the various HEIs and the main differences from the federal state educational standards are identified. The trends in the development of educational standards at leading universities are determined. Attention is paid to the standards of master degree programmes in engineering and technology.

The article presents the results of analysis of publication activity of applicants for Candidate of science degree, in 2 years before and after thesis defense of. In 2013, an applicant had in average 13 publications, among them 11 were articles including three in Enumeration of Higher Attestation Commission (VAK Enumeration). About half among those who defended thesis in 2010, were registered in eLIBRARY.RU resource. During the following years (2011-2014) 35% of those who have got the Candidate degree diplomas did not publish any articles registered in Russian Science Citation Index. Only 10% of candidates of science still continue an active research activities including writing articles.

Prompt changes of a technosphere impose relevant requirements to all its infrastructure: in this regard, the question of engineering education mission becomes more and more actual. This article considers the main trends defining character and an orientation of engineering activity with relevant requirements to it. The problem of increase of the conflict between a traditional paradigm of engineering education and becoming alternative paradigm rises, and this is the cause of transition to new model of education in which the sociocultural vector forms a basis for understanding of deep world processes.

The article makes an analysis of various world technologies of dual higher education. One of perspective forms of realization of dual higher technical education is using of opportunities of the corporate consortium similar to the consortium created on the basis of the Karaganda state technical university (KSTU). To reduce the terms of study and to except a temporary gap theoretical tutoring should be accomplished on the basis of Internet technologies in an evening form along with getting practical skills and abilities in real industry. The experience of the organization of the distributed education Internet-process in the network modes on technical specialties in KSTU is described.

The article deals with the certain social and economic issues of organization of international law master courses at higher schools of engineering and technologies. In modern conditions competency in international law becomes an indispensable element of professional skills of a specialist especially of managerial staff therefore master courses in law should be revised taking into account this aspect.

The article considers the problem of training highly qualified specialists in conditions of economic modernization in the direction of creating highAtech industries. It is shown that one of the reasons for the insufficient level of professional training of engineers in this situation is transition to a system of academic education of bachelors and masters. Improving of the quality of engineering education can be ensured through the development and implementation of relevant programs of additional education in collaboration with industry. The article presents the experience of PNIPU specialists participation in the Presidential program for engineering personnel’s skills raising.

In article examines the topical problems facing trade education at the present stage taking into account the requirements stated in Federal state educational standards (for specialized secondary and higher education) and the changes in system after adoption of the Federal Law «About education in the Russian Federation».

The article presents the authors’ vision of transformation of the system of bachelors’ training for the sphere of social pedagogy. On the basis of theoretical analysis and the analysis of the educational experience of the university, the role of teaching practice in the construction of bachelors’ training for the sphere of social pedagogy is described. The data of empirical research (survey method) and the analytical materials reflecting the current state of social pedagogues’ training in the dynamics are presented. The authors substantiate the potential of professional probations as a means for implementation of educational process at Pedagogical University.

The article highlights the features of engineering training at engineering training, the specific character of so call «Russian method» of engineers’ training. The author formulates the main areas of university development as a national research university and focuses on historical and conceptual continuity in organization of education process. Nowadays the«Russian method» has transformed into a new model implying organization of research and education centers where students get the fundamentals of technical sciences and implement them in real projects and create real products.

The article is devoted to the innovative system of the scientific and educational centers formed at Bauman Moscow state technical university, their contribution to training of graduates. It is shown that the system of the scientific and educational centers combining real production, scientific researches, business processes and modern educational technologies provides the necessary conditions and a special environment for training of specialists ready to participate in innovative development, and to shape the future of the Russian science and the industry.

The article focuses on the special features of integrated continuing target training of personnel for space industry. It is shown that support of young people and schoolchildren researches and introduction of space themes in the courses of technical and engineering disciplines ensures the quality of training highly skilled staff for space industry. The article shows the role the Youth Cosmic Centre in involving students in scientific and technical creativity.

The article describes the activities of the complex Innovation Ecosystem formed at Bauman MSTU, considers its separate structural elements, their task and functional duties. The complex Innovation Ecosystem combining modern educational technologies and real business processes has to become the center uniting science and innovatics, training in business and management of high technologies at University.

Russian Federation and China have been involved into a longAstanding partnership and cooperation for decades. Both countries rely on advanced technological development and modernization of the educational system. The acknowledged instrument for cooperation in higher education is represented by professional university associations. Association of SinoARussian Technical Universities (ASRTU) established in 2011 features one of the first RussianAChinese associations in engineering training. Within a short period of time the association has confirmed its role as a new institution to join together efforts of the two nations in the evolution of higher education. The article deals with the history and the main activity areas of the ASRTU, and it also summarizes work undertaken since its creation in 2011.

The article considers the approaches to formation of social policy at technical university. Is shown that to achieve the main goal of the state social policy it is necessary to combine the efforts of the state and the efforts of all other subjects of the social sphere. It is offered to use the practice of social partnership for development and implementation of the social programs within the framework of the social policy carried out by the university. The established practices of social work allow to combine the efforts of social partners and to provide real effective help to university workers and students.

The article dwells on the activities of student self-government system at technical university. Self-government plays an important role in the process of specialists training as it allows to form students’ civic stand, commitment to preservation and augmentation of moral, cultural and human values, as well as to develop common cultural competence necessary to prepare future graduates. The work of student self-government at technical university has its own characteristics. Successful implementation of student self-government activities at technical university contributes significantly to the preparation of highly skilled, versatile developed specialist. The article describes the experience of the activities of student organizations at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

The modern situation in our country is characterized by a predominance of a new bureaucracy in the spheres of science and higher education. This bureaucracy grounds its “reformatory” activity with different social myths. In this article we criticize these myths.

Higher education is an institute of excellent importance for society and its development deeply depends on public support. It’s impossible to score a success with poor finance, bad infrastructure and without legal protection. As a result the quality of education steadily deteriorates. To rely on higher education as s solemn remedy to ensure future prosperity and wealth is a mistake. The other key factors are important for increasing social effect of education on wellAbeing, such as social family capital and parent’s income. The quality of education is closely connected with employer’s satisfaction with diploma holders qualification. The practice of employers polling is not so widespread in Russian regions as it is in other countries. The distant education is also of scrupulous attention. The main method in thearticle is the method of comparative analysis.

Questions of the female higher education were actively discussed in the press in the second half of the XIX century. The analysis of editorials of the conservative newspaper «Moskovskiye Vedomosti» issued by M.N. Katkov, shows that the newspaper didn’t challenge the rights of women for studying at university, but considered this question indissolubly with a problem of formation of a system of highAquality secondary education for women. The "Moskovskiye Vedomosti" with deep arguments proved the need of serious preliminary preparation, obligation of a gymnasia course for girls, and also warned society against enthusiasm for «nihilism».

The article contains the results of the author’s historicalApedagogical research aimed at forming a comprehensive vision of development of scientific-pedagogical school of Dorpat Professorial Institute. The phenomenon of scientific-pedagogical school is analyzed by the author in cultural-historical context of the 19th century as a kind of a system of prompt training of professors for Russian universities. The author presents the main features of this phenomenon. Using the method of historical simulation the author has made historical reenactment of Professorial Institute activities, which has been shown as a comprehensive pedagogical system. The article contains the characteristics of this system’s components, which conform to definition structure of “scientific-pedagogical school”: informatory, processual and evaluation-reflexive. The author marks out that the results of this model realization were followed in the work of Russian professors of a new formation: they continued the traditions of scientific-pedagogical school of Professorial Institute. It’s graduates have trained worthy students. Keeping the traditions of Russian scientificApedagogical school is one of important issues in the period of reformation of higher education in Russia.

The article is dedicated to the activities of the institutions of higher pedagogical education in Siberia aimed at the development of the main scientific areas of research in the 60s-80s of the 20th century. On the basis of the documents and materials from the archives the most prominent achievements of the scientists of teacher training universities of the region in the leading branches of education are being analyzed.

The empirical basis of the article is a practical experience in implementing creative projects under the CDIO Initiative at Tomsk Polytechnic University for 2 years (4 semesters) in training bachelors majoring in «Quality Management». The implemented projects are considered, and the obtained project results are analyzed and summarized. RecomA mendations to provide pedagogical conditions to implement project activities in undergraduate training are suggested.

If a person has a desire to remain an actual expert in the modern world, he has to update the knowledge, to study new directions and information technologies. Therefore there is a number of questions: How to carry out this process? Should an expert be engaged in self-education or complete courses in any educational center? The answers in many respects depend on the conditions and the quality of the educational process organized by training centers. The authors gave recommendations on application of an offered method of training to any software product. The main requirement to a choice of teaching methods is adaptation of courses to the requirements and practical problems of the customer. This article describes the teaching methods used in the educational center «Autodesk-OmSTU». The proposed method is based on a modular principle, easily expanded and modified for different courses.

Teaching students in accordance with the federal state educational standards (FSES) requires new approaches to the realization of their final examination. This paper dwells on professional activity and requirements for students of engineering level of training (“Automobiles and automobile operation”) and bachelor degree (“Exploitation of transport and technological machines and complexes”). The final certification of bachelor students, the approaches to the formation of the themes and structure of a final qualifying work, their advantages and disadvantages are analyzed. According to the authors the optimal variant of the overall theme of a final qualifying work are is offered. The typical structure of a bachelor diploma work is presented.