Considering transformation of higher education in Russia as part of a reform process of socio-economic sphere of society, the author draws attention to existence of systemic contradictions and notes the need for detailed research in order to find other ways to develop situation. Hence, the paper is aimed at characterizing the alternative ways of improving the educational system, which allows to retain benefits of higher education in Russia. Igor Groshev considers growing gap between university standards and actual demand in specialists in the production sector to be the basic contradiction Appealing to the foreign experience, the author formulates the basic requirements for adjustment of transformation strategy taking into account existing and probable trendsin economic sphere.

The paper is aimed at analyzing the process ofhumanism and humanitarian foundations of Russian educational paradigm. The article deals with education as a mechanism of values transmission, which reveals the relation between humanism and humanitarian fundamentals of educational system in Russia. The author points out that there is a process of general values ’ disintegration in the modern global world; it influences educational system. Education is supposed to be understood as a mechanism of socio-cultural heritage of society. Global crises require reconsideration of the progress and enlightenment way, which humanity is moving through; it makes the problem of education humanization to be urgent and important one. The paper reveals the main approaches to the notion “humanism”, represents its kinds and demonstrates relation between humanism and processes of humanization and dehumanization in society. Humanism was often understood as a utopia in modern Russian society and wasn’t expressed in social ideals. The paper analyzes the main approaches to humanization of education and considers the main historic stages of establishing humanitarian fundamentals in education of Russia. The modern model of education in Russia was founded during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment according to the German one. It assumed a lot of liberal arts subjects aimed at forming human morality and engineering aimed at cognizing the world by means of the mind. The concept “humanism” assumed class-determined meaning which displaced human and civilized meaning. There was teaching staff trained in the field of humanities in post-revolution school. The teaching staff was not able to adapt to the governmental policy in education. Education still remains the major element of social humanistic practice, due to its universality, independence from the political, economic and market situations in spite of all attempts to scrapping. This social institution keeps elements ofhumanistic pedagogical technologies of the past and new ways of humanistic pedagogical paradigm are searched exactly in education. The article makes conclusion that contradiction between social and cultural needs of modern society and the educational system occurs in humanitarian fundamentals of the Russian educational paradigm. It is mentioned that educational system does not respond to the needs of modern society due to the loss of humanistic goals in society ’s ideology, outdated methods and applying of old techniques and teaching methods.

The authors explore the reasons causing decreasing of competitiveness of education in Russia in the international educational industry. Their analysis is based on methodological principles of educational philosophy and competitiveness science. The authors formulate the reasons of education in Russia recession. Their formulations are based on the idea that the main goal of education assumes training a competitive individual able to perform social roles. The authors consider the main reasons as follows: inconformity of education quality to international standards and principles “longlife education” and “from age to degree”; lack of transparent state educational policy; partial non-continuous vertical and horizontal connections of education and science, industry and technologies and sometimes not legitimate image made by mass-media of Russia. The authors suggest measures able to improve the situation.

There was a fundamental change in social relations in Russian society at the turn of XX-XXI centuries. In these circumstances, education system, as an institutional basis of society, has undergone major transformations; it means the old system can’t operate efficiently in new conditions, but at the same time there is no understanding of what kind new paradigm of education should be. Many reformers suggest the most successful examples of development in the West as ideal models aimed at promoting and developing national education system. The examples of western development are supposed to be introduced and applied in Russia. The paper analyzes foundation and development of education on the example of Western societies; it demonstrates that each national education system has always been founded and developed in well-defined social and cultural conditions. The author makes conclusion that total applying of experience of even the most successful Western examples and their development is not suitable for education in Russia due to centuries-old national cultural, scientific and educational traditions.

Analysis of the processes, occurred in the society, shows that education is gradually moving from educational institutions to the socio-cultural environment. There is an «expansion» of education on the society, types of education receive educational status in various areas ofsocial life. The means contributing to establishment of educational community appeared to be a complex system of diverse knowledge working in the society, new types of communication and educational potential of national cultures which has become very popular in today ’s society as well. The ideas of unified educational space in the region, expressed nowadays in the frameworks of national and scope education are of great importance for modern development of Russia. It is possible to estimate peculiarities of geographical characteristic, historic characteristic, demographical characteristic, cultural one, economic plan, conditions and problems appearing in education exactly within the regional borders. Development of common education space in Russia relates to protection and development of cultural identity of its national regions, formation of the needs and abilities of different education entities to cooperate for the benefit of society. Development of national education is an important way and it is a mean of foundation of educational community in multinational Russia. The ideas of applying national experience in educational development are widely overviewed in the frameworks of national schools, national and scope colleges, frameworks of approaches to education, which focusesmainly not on institutional area but it is broadcasted via channels of f «natural» life. The ideas of people ’s national school foundation in Russia aimed at students education by means of spiritual riches of national culture, traditions and habits of the region and school of morality, ethical life and crafts became popular due to the projects of regeneration and development of population in Russia. Today it is necessary to emphasize crucial importance for modern Russia of the idea to found common education space in the region. It is possible to estimate peculiarities of geographical characteristic, historic characteristic, demographical characteristic, cultural one, economic plan, conditions and problems appearing in education exactly within the regional borders. Development of common education space in Russia relates to protection and development of cultural identity of its national regions, formation of the needs and abilities of different education entities to cooperate for the benefit of society. It can take into account the specific features of the geographical, historical, demographic, cultural, economic plan, the specific conditions and challenges facing education in the borders of the region. The development of a unified educational space of Russia related to the protection and development of the cultural identity of its national regions, with the formation of the needs and abilities of different subjects of education to cooperate for the benefit of society.

The article considers experience of advanced training courses on the programmes of further professional education. The programmes correspond to social procurement of the government and allow teachers to get competence in accordance with the main ways of education policy; they also relate to innovation processe applied by institutions. The paper notes that modern social procurement defines the nature the teacher of profes sional competition as a necessary one for successful work of professionally advanced teacher at school. The author reveals the leading role of career development system in successful career and proficiency of a teacher and its contributing to career growth of a teacher.

The paper analyzes the reasons of necessity in constant improving of ethic and legal space of educational and scientific activity in the modern world. The analysis is based on applying of new investigations in the field of biotechnology. The paper reveals problems appeared when studying reproduction and regeneration mechanisms. The authors demonstrate specific procedure of biological science development and enlighten the problems of interaction between “new possibilities” and archaic conditions contributing to their implementation. Problems of “new consciousness” and old views about human place in the world are shown as well. The article explains that gnosis dialectics of living matter leads to revolutions which demand strong changes in the life of modern society; when the modern society turns into society of knowledge and innovations and changes the subject of this process.

The article reveals the fact that model of personal behavior formed in the Soviet era was based on recognition of high value of health and caring health provided by Institute of Healthcare. But declared health value didn’t prevent a welfare mentality, lack of personal responsibility and motivation that appeared to be unwillingness of younger generation to conscious behavior in contexts of society transformation.. The researchers suppose ignorance of the youth development peculiarities, underdevelopment of healthy lifestyle, lack of systematic family education and school education to be the reasons of irresponsible attitude to health.

The article reveals procedure of interaction between the subjects of pedagogical technology, efficiency of pedagogical technology applying and ways to arrange anticonflict activity. The authors studied reasons and types of conflicts and their influence on international students ’ life by means of applyingpredictive methods, observation methods, methods of theoretical analysis and statistic data processing. The paper considers principles of pedagogical management in details. The authors suppose the nature of pedagogical conflict management to lie in correction of contradictions and formation of structurak skills aimed at controlling and managing conflicts.

The article focuses on training of professional graphic designers for packaging industry. It considers experience of teaching competitive package design on the subject “Project” at Faculty of Design of USAAA by means of applying active methods and role plays. The experiment described proves efficiency of active methods in comparison with traditional ones. The approach is aimed not only at improving students activity and their motivation for learning and professional activities, but it also improves training of future professionals for real sector of Russian economy. Such a view would be of interest to specialists engaged in training undergraduates in the area of design at higher institutions.

Study of public opinion of Law Institute students from one of the Siberian agrarian universities is topical and important for comparison with the situation in other higher institutions. The article is aimed at studying student ’s statements, their opinions on important economic, political and social aspects. There are methods of questionnaire, analytical method, synthesis method and interpretation method applied. The article reveals some problematic fields of student public opinion and suggests corresponding recommendations.

The article deals with the role of knowledge and creative potential of a person in solving urgent problems related to intellectualization of economy in the XXI century, necessity to provide academic and technological leadership of the country, saving and strengthening the middle class as a priority task of the government, necessity of the youth ‘spiritual occupation’. The paper reveals relation between active knowledge and creative human potential and system development “knowledge-technology”. The author suggests new requirements to the quality of human resources in order to provide national security and academic and technological leadership in Russia in contexts of economy based on the knowledge. This approach is caused by aggravation of international competition in high-tech defense industry and modern information technological area; it leads to necessity to found efficient conditions for missle-class development and fulfillment of its representatives. The research makes conclusion that this tendency contributes to spiritual personal occupation, making its life strategy, improving of the population life quality and intellectual creative work is a stabilizing factor of country development.

The article is devoted to monitoring of professional competence development. Management training on competency-based approach is one of the priorities of modern professional education in Russia. It is noted that at the present time a unified approach to the monitoring of formation of personnel competence has not been developed despite the fact that monitoring has become an integral part of the management staff. The paper establishes possibility to apply practically project approach as a tool to provide monitoring of formedness of managerial human resources ’professional competence.

The article describes and endorses factors influencing social identity in the sphere of higher education on an experimental basis. The author distinguishes three essential cognitive motivational components; they are basic component, personal component and professional one. The main factors include higher education; personal traits (focus on self-recipience, self-respect, inherent value, self-management, the inner world, the perception of social environment requirements); the significance of current or future professional activity. The paper characterizes each corresponding factor.

The article analyzes possibilities to arrange cognitive process from the point of view of hermeneutic methods which are viewed not only as a craft to understand the text, but general cultural and historic method (Fr. Schleiermacher) based on the idea which is able to occur as a reconstruction of the author and the reader prejudices (Wilhelm Dilthey) and as a process of the reader’s getting into the author’s lifeworld (Hans-Georg Gadamer). The paper specifies impossibility to restrict a person in receiving true knowledge by means of cognizer role only. The author draws a conclusion about specific integration of science and education as a result of applying hermeneutic method; that makes new knowledge to be perceived not as extraneous and planted outside but as selfobtained and outworn.

The article is devoted to specific procedure of taking extended education courses by some demobilized military men. The programmes are provided by institutions acted on the basis of state registered educational certificates specified by the national experiment. The educational experiment has been carried out in 2012-2014 in the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Civil Defence Affairs and Emergencies in Russia. The author reveals the nature of state registered educational certificate, describes procedure of its issuing and recovering expences while studying. The paper demonstrates experience of Omsk State Pedagogical University in this area.

The article considers issues of student independent work intellectualization provided by means of integration of information and communication technologies. The author emphasizes that one of the efficient tools for such integration is the objective information and communication environment. The environment provides development of information culture, skill acquisition of pragmatic self-evaluation and self-control, creative self-development, formation of actual self-attitude while solving cognitive professional tasks by means of complex network tools applying.

The author analyzes content and meaning of educational and research regional space as an element aimed at agribusiness efficiency increasing. The article studies specific procedure of educational regional space in the area of agribusiness and education development in respect to regional agriculture. Thus, the paper establishes the role and importance of educational and research regional space as an element aimed at agribusiness efficiency increasing.

The article is devoted to studying integration of science in economic sector of Kazakhstan. The authors consider development theory of countries participating in economic integration and main directions of their integration processes; they specify influence of European integration on regional development of science integration in Kazakhstan. For instance, integration of Kazakhstan should be carried out in the certain sector of economy in order to make great impact and provide control. The paper reveals effectiveness of consulting participating countries of Customs Union in the field of regional integration.

The article describes the main approaches to applying of interactive teaching methods in higher institutions. Reasonable procedure of applying information technologies while classroom studies and independent work of the students is revealed and characterized on the basis of the Chair of Anatomy, Histology, Physiology and Pathological Anatomy in agrarian University. This procedure allows to found the impact of e-materials and teacher on the process of students training; it makes importance and impact of e-materials aimed at personal and professional skills improvement to be reasonable for students ’ independent work.

The author considers paradoxical feature in value orientations and students behavior on the basis of socio-economic factors and cultural attitudes of modern society which are revealed in the current education system. Paradox of opposite conclusions from the similar empirical information, ’’centaur-problem” of value orientations (transvalues) is revealed in the eclectic combination of alternative paradigm principles; they are technocratic views and humanistic ones. The paper demonstrates sustainable social factors of student values in Russia. The main tendency of student values transformation has antisocial vector and leads to decreasing of quality of education. i Social and educational practice which forms positive values in Russia should become innovation strategic benchmark in promotion of society.

Issues of sustainable social-natural development and specially protected natural areas are of complex, interdisciplinary character in contemporary knowledge. This brings forth the problem of forming not only branch-specific subjects in vocational education -natural, humanitarian and applied - but also development of integrated directions which are studied in different vocational education course units and demand to be discussed in order to form special integrated curricula and subjects, those of natural-humanitarian theoretical-applied character.