The author sees all contradictions and difficulties of building personal features of teachers, pupils and students in the problem of humanization and implementation of humanism elements in the national education. Liberalism and conservatism and their ideologies, practices, globalization, commercialization and technocratic approaches prevail nowadays; this results in the fact that humanization faces significant difficulties. At the same time the law of accelerated historical process is in force and contributes to social progress. Education and upbringing of young people is an activity for the present and future. The author makes the systematic review of complete humanism, its content as a main criterion in activity of students and teachers.

Wide application of new information technologies in modern educational space is characterized by specifying the whole complex of previously unknown problems (e. g. the problem of information inequality; the problem of information security, etc). However, the expansion and fundamentalization of the information as a category allows considering some educational problems in new way. The authors focus on the problem of stable development as it is impossible without perception and admitting of specific role of information in evolution that takes place in biology and human society. The authors point out that socio-philosophical study of the peculiarities and role of information in the educational system requires consideration of the following aspects. First, it is the role of a teacher that gradually shifts from a lecturer to a supervisor. This role is very significant even more than lecturer’s role. Second, the stages of scientific progress forward a teacher to further training and application of new professional knowledge, new technologies, computer skills and information culture etc. The system of state education is considered to be the most important element of national security and all that happens in this field is of great importance. One of the key questions is the question about government. This is its task to make conditions and train the specialists who are in demand and to raise the general cultural and intellectual level of society. The role of the government is to give the right to a citizen for higher education by means of competition.

The article deals with reproduction of qualified labour power, methods, conditions and the model of forming professional competence of young specialists who are graduates of institutions. The main items of the article include requirements to the performance of training professional workforce in terms of globalization and structural changes in economics; problems, that hinder reproduction and employment professionally competent workers and specialists; it reveals that nowadays the term “competence” is a crucial criterion of professional education and integral workforce performance index and plays the significant role in evaluating specialists’ qualification level according to the UNESCO requirements on transition to the concept of human competence and the national performance evaluation system’ statute; standards endorsed by the Government of the Russian Federation and federal authorities on issues dealing with improvement of qualified staff training and implementation of the competency-based approach; the main ways of competency-based approach implementation to the professional training of higher institutions and secondary schools graduates; the paper analyzes the basic workforce performance criteria; transition to the new paradigm: from the traditional “knowledge” approach to the competency-based one in determining objectives of professional education, selection of education contents, organization of education process and evaluation of its results from the position of professional education institutions’ graduates’ availability in efficient labour through the constantly changing conditions; presented the main terms of achieving professional competence by the all level professional education institutions’ graduates; showed the necessity to create innovative education environment in professional education institutions and regions of the country; given the stages to achieve professional competence of professional education institutions’ graduates. The methods and approaches used in this research: competence-based, personally-centered, activity-based approaches, humanization of education, formation of knowledge, skills and habits, professional and cultural competencies for the graduates, employment by profession, efficient employment and step-by-step achievement of professional competence. The novelty of this research is explained by the developed model of forming professional competence for professional education institutions’ graduates. This model includes two stages and offers a complex system, with its stages and components closely interconnected, as function of each stages present the condition of efficient functioning of the whole system’s other components and stages. At the first stage – professional education in professional education institutions should be considered as the initial stage of forming basics of graduates’ future professional competence, mastering knowledge, skills, habits, professional and cultural competencies, humanitarian development, value aims and professional motivation. The nature of worker’s competence being the product of professional education in professional education institutions, does not originate from it, but is the consequence of the further self-development and experience in labour activities of young specialists. Therefore, at the second stage (efficient employment) successful labour, adaptation in firms, work experience by profession are particularly needed for achieving professional competence by the graduates.

The former Director-General of UNESCO Matsuura Kōichirō Declared in 2008 t5hat the content of the revolution which was going on was the following: “We must do the Kopernik revolution. It’s not the knowledge which turns around society but society that turns around the knowledge”. The article discusses one of the pillars mentioned in this statement. Computerization and internet bore the new ontology of educational interaction and made new educational order. The procedure of getting knowledge and prominent component of knowledge as a value are changed, that is the culture of getting knowledge and its application is changed. Digital culture becomes opposite to humanistic pedagogics, specifies new values and meanings of genesis. This is the result of changes in educational environment and becomes the reason for changing the nature of humanism itself. How does it happen? What does it lead to? The authors attempt to answer these questions by means of the “open education” methodology of D. Price. This discussion results in three conclusions. The first value is exchange of knowledge, freedom, openness and trust. These are the values that conform to the digital culture and humanistic pedagogics rendered as two opposites in the process of modern socialization. The second value assumes universal nature of the values that considers digital culture as a humanistic phenomenon and “figure” and “symbol” as an essential part of humanistic. Therefore the third value implies the questions if the individual personality as a form of self-identity is an integrator of digital and humanistic culture or the integration conditions are alien to it?

The article attempts to specify the notion of expert and professional community as a social and information medium of effective professional activity in the modern information society. The author highlights specific difference between expert communities and professional groups and classes in their general meaning, features of their social identification, conditions of their reproduction and institutionalization. It is of no question that the main condition of functioning of expert communities is creating a high quality information medium and efficient knowledge exchange within a particular profession. This task is solved by developing professional information content systems that bear all the functions of organizing and adaptation of all professional data in the digital medium. The close interconnection between a profession and its information support puts forward a question about the methods of expert communities’ improvement as one of the ways of Russian society modernization.

The author attempts to ground the notion of expert and professional community that is rendered as a social and information medium of efficient professional activity in the modern information society. The paper highlights the peculiarities of essential difference between expert communities and professional groups and classes as they are traditionally reviewed; features of their social identification and conditions of their reproduction and institutionalization. The author sees the main condition of appearance and functioning of expert communities in creating a high quality information medium and efficient knowledge exchange within a particular profession. This task is solved by means of developing professional information content systems that bear all the functions of organizing and adaptation of all professional data in the digital medium. The close interconnection between a profession and its information support raises a question about the methods of expert communities’ improvement as one of the ways of Russian society modernization.

This article deals with public-private partnerships in education. The author highlights the features of public-private partnership development in the field of education in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The paper describes experiences of some countries that deal with public private partnership considered as the projects in education. The author forecasts possible risks and opportunities of public-private partnership in education.

The article considers the changes occurred in the field of distance learning after endorsement of the new law on education and related regulations. The author analyzes the reasons, which prevent widespread development of e-learning and distance learning technologies. The paper puts forward the idea that many higher institutions are not interested in e-learning and distance learning development. The author makes conclusion that higher institutions are not sufficiently motivated to develop e-learning whereas external motivation doesn’t fulfil the requirements and interests of institutions.

The authors see the development of professional competencies of applied bachelor possible by means of further training and professional training on educational basis of volunteer organization; this is considered to be a promising direction in the training of engineers. The paper is aimed at making the grounds and application of educational basis of volunteer organizations for efficient Bachelor training on various courses as well as motivating the teachers for conducting seminars and applying the elements of educational basis. Many years’ experience of volunteer activity and chiefs of student clubs define the stages of educational base formation, pedagogical conditions of the base development, creation and implementation the program intended to create the facility for training process in the profession-oriented volunteer organizations. Guidance and experience of the Student Volunteer Club, organized by educational institution, allowed to define the stages of educational basis foundation, pedagogical conditions of its development, creation and constant updating during training. The research outlines the opportunities of professional competencies building while training Bachelors on the programme «Technosphere Safety” by means of further training on the basis of educational base of the volunteer organization. This base includes professional tests and guidance on supporting the educational base of volunteers –rescuers. The outlines insufficient number of classroom studies in Undegraduate that results in the fact that current educational base of university volunteer organizations enhances training and contributes to application of professional theoretical knowledge on the objects of educational base of volunteer organization.

In this article the author introduces the most important moral dilemmas which the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) face. Since everybody may be in need of emergency medical service, it is important that such a service is universal and help is provided as quickly as possible. This requires that EMS personnel possess particular moral qualifications which at the same time constitutes a great psychological burden

Modern labor markets and educational services have moved to the stage of development which is characterized by significant mismatch between supply and demand. This disbalance is exacerbated by the fact that there are significant discrepancies between the educational and professional standards. In these circumstances, it clears the importance of intensifying marketing all market operators, including the educational institution (institutions of further training) that apply competitive strategies. The necessity to find new forms of cooperation between educational institutions with enterprises of the real economic sector (agribusiness companies and fuel and energy companies) is evident. Due to new industrial facilities these enterprises face the serious problem with personnel. Implementation of effective strategies in education and industry is possible by means of corporate education provided by further training institutions. This education combines the resources of the educational institution and the employer, it enhances harmonization of educational and professional standards when training specialists according to the programmes adapted to concerete requirements of business and employers. The issue on formation and development of human capital assets can be solved by means of the cluster approach to a common educational, scientific and production space only.

The paper states that personal worldview, personal thinking mechanisms, specific ways of cognition and personal communications are changed due to the modern era of total informatization. The dynamics of these processes was impossible in the previous history, but today it leads to great contradictions that contribute to both progress and degradation of humanity. The purpose of this article is to identify the sociohistorical causality and direction of these trends from the point of view of opportunities and risks of human formation as a subject of modern social processes, in particular, and of the historical process as a whole. The article focuses on the problem of understanding the emerging opportunities for the development of a new subjectivity.

The article explores the system of somatic training of professional and applied physical qualities of cadets of military higher education institution. The author’s opinion is the system includes the purpose, functions, components and diagnostic tools. The system is aimed at development of professional and applied physical skills by means of cadets’ somatic training. The paper highlights internal and external factors influencing development of professional and applied physical qualities of cadets of military higher education institution. Functioning of each component of system of somatic education is registered in educational and educational process of Military Institute of Internal Troops named after Colonel I.K. Iakovlev of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

In the present text, the authors want to present the results of research on the legal consciousness of doctors regarding abortion a crime described in Article 152 of the Polish Criminal Code. The results of the research will be the appearance that this knowledge is limited and teeth is a problem ethical.