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On April 10, 2013, Tver State University hosted a webinar where experts from the Russian Rector’s Union and the Agency of strategic initiatives discussed prospects of macro-regulation in higher education. Some considerations on the scope of discussed matters are given and the proposals are made.

The paper is devoted to a competency-based organization of university education in the country. It is shown that theoretical and methodological support of this innovative direction lags behind the needs of real practice, and this has already led to serious flaws in the federal state standards of the higher professional education of the third generation.

The article dwells upon the questions of sociocultural modernization of education in connection with establishment of social and humanitarian park of the Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute. Its activity is aimed at prompt response to actual sociocultural problems of the regional development, formation of humanitarian environment for upbringing the young generation of researches with new cultural competences.

The article presents the system model of education quality management at higher education institution. The model is based on the marketing approach.

Taking recent international university ranking trends into account, an analysis of requirements to a ranking system for Russian higher educational institutions was conducted. These requirements were considered in the context of the increase of the competitiveness of Russian universities while retaining the national identity of higher education.

Assessment systems of students’ academic achievement and their educational outcomesare the object of the study. The comparison of the different assessment systems is performed on the basis of the analysis of their efficiency as a tool of control and assessment of educational outcomes, which carries out a normative, informative and diagnostic function, as well as a control and incentive function during the educational process in higher education.

The quality of engineering education is the main problem under discussion in the article. Russian method of training engineers, well known in our country and abroad, provides thehighest authority of Russian engineering school in the world. Its basic principles (education based on science and interaction with industry) and characteristics are described. We analyze some negative aspects affecting the quality of engineering education and propose solutions to overcome them. Bauman MSTU offers one of the effective solutions – an organization of pre-university education as a successive system “school – university” including access courses, specialized lyceums and schools, youth scientific programs and Olympiads. Moreover, Bauman University applies the system of additional professional education than enables an engineer to acquire competences in management, intellectual property, communication in foreign languages.

В статье представлен краткий обзор литературы по проблемам качества образования, рассмотрены различные подходы к качеству, в том числе управленческий и педагогический подходы. Особое внимание уделено пониманию качества с точки зрения различных категорий заинтересованных сторон (студентов, преподавателей, работодателей, руководителей вузов), а также сравнительному анализу различных педагогических подходов к проблеме качества высшего образования в России и за рубежом. Представлены позиции отечественных и зарубежных педагогов в отношении путей повышения качества образования, которые зачастую носят полярный характер, обусловленный разным представлением о целях образования и об эффективности применения различных образовательных технологий. В контексте педагогического подхода к качеству предлагается авторская трактовка качества образования и его компонентов.

The article analyzes education quality in terms of distribution of labour intensity of disciplines and amount of educational material of an academic program. The authors offer a special method to determine labour intensity and the amount of educational material based on evaluation reading speed and learning rate of educational material. The number of pages of recommended literature on educational issues of syllabus is used as a unit of measurement of the amount of educational material. This approach results from the fact that over 67% of students use paper copies not electronic resources while studying. Learning rate of a discipline is calculated by means of a specially developed technique. Reading speed is determined experimentally basing on understanding rate of content of texts in Humanities and technical texts. The statistical sample included only the results with the correct answers on the text content. When the amount of labour intensity in academic hours, the rate of material learning and the speed of meaningful reading are given, it is possible to determine the amount of educational material in pages of the main textbook from a discipline curriculum of the academic program. The described approaches used to determine the amount of labour intensity and the amount of educational material of disciplines have particular importance for reaching equivalence and harmonization of curricula in terms of networking technologies and when training specialists according to double degree scheme.

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.

The article describes the main directions of activities of the North-Ossetian State University in the conditions of Russian higher education reforming; analyzes the results of the implementation of the program of strategic development of the University in improving the quality of the educational process, cultural and educational work, improving the efficiency of research activities, strengthening international academic cooperation, modernization of material-technical base.

The article is devoted to the analysis of development of education system in Russia for the last 25 years. The article adduces statistics of quantity dynamics of higher educational institutions and the number of the faculty and students. Assessment of the reforming processes of the education system in Russia is given. There are also viewed the key problems of the procedure of licensing and accreditation of a higher educational institution.Reasonable suggestions on reforming the system of managing Russian education and itsfinancing are provided in the conclusion. Some special recommendations apply to the financial management of higher educational institutions.

The management of education quality supposes the administration of both the results and every stage of the educational process that can be provided in the present conditions only by the existence of an efficient quality management system (QMS) regarded as a basis for reaching the set goals, transferring to a new level of labor organization, control and administration of the process and the result of specialists training.The certified quality management system guarantees the quality of the educational process for the existing and potential consumers and serves as a basis for the competitive advantages of the university.

The article considers the opportunities and prospects associated with the implementation the educational programs of higher education in the network form. Theincreased threats of imitation of educational activities for unscrupulous training providers are also discussed in this article. The review provides a range of problems and issues related to the assessment, examination and state accreditation of educational programs.

The purpose of this article is justification of students’ status as consumers of educational products and users of education results. They are also characterized as competent agents to assess the quality of higher education. The subject of discussion is also a conceptual model of the main working concepts in the context of the problem. Sociological exchange theory is a methodological basis for the interpretation of the studied phenomena.The article deals with such concepts as education quality, students’ assessment of education quality, educational product and its main consumers. The students’ opinion is presented as a competent position to account for their views for designing educational politics of the University. The dynamics of the post!industrial shift of the main target groups of education consumers is shown in the article. This fact requires to change formulations of objectives of the University and to correct contents and modes of interaction between University and students. The arguments for individualization processes and learning outcomes for students are offered here. Thereby its importance to the strategic management of University is highlighted.

The article is devoted to results of applying computer-based system of verification of graduation qualification theses at Tver State University for the detection of plagiarism. We used a system «Antiplagiat.VUZ» as software. Statistical analysis of data was conducted for all directions of training in the 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 academic years. Features of the application of such systems were studied.

The article discusses the evolution of the educational and social priorities during the Bologna principles implementation. The authors analyze interim results of the European Higher Education Area formation and the outcomes of the transformation of educational systems of the countries participating in the Bologna process.

The article presents the experience in development of the professional%public accreditation concept (PPA) of the higher education programs in the social and humanitarian sphere. The principles underlying the basis of this development are revealed.The paper dwells on the most important characteristics of process of education which have to be considered at an assessment of educational programs. Traditional and latest means of representation which are applied in modern educational process are considered.The concept and the main documents are developed taking into account the internationalexperience of accreditation. We discuss why the main qualities of the developed technology of accreditation will make it an important element of system of development of Russian education and increase its competitiveness in the international division of labor.

The paper deals with the problem of qualified personnel shortage in science intensive spheres of economy and analyzes the factors contributing to raising of the quality of young specialist training and further employment in high-tech industry. A framework of actions to solve the personnel problem in defense industry is given.

The paper analyzes the state of an interaction between a HEI and employers in the context of education modernization, reveals the causes why the social partnership between higher school and the labor market continues to be ineffective. The survey data regarding the key forms of the partnership (243 experts of recruitment agencies, employment consultants involved) showed that most of employers are not interested in personnel replenishment. They are not ready to participate in education process and to invest in target training of specialists. The authors outline the strategic benchmarks of social partnership development towards shaping the national system of qualifications, designing professional and educational standards in the competence format.

This article describes the formation of Webometrics rating, analyzes the strongand weak points of the methodology on the example UlSTU site. Also on the basis of UlSTU experience the paper suggests the ways to strengthen the position of Russian universities in this rating. The article analyzes the opportunities and challenges to increase the publication activity in journals included into the international databases such as Web of Science and Scopus for regional higher education institutions. The authors proposed to take into account factors affecting the employment of graduates, university participation in international projects aimed at improving the quality of education. It is advisable to consider the amount of intellectual property in the main results of the work of an engineering university in addition to journal publications.

In the article we consider the concept of student’s plagiarism and the factors contributing to its prevalence. The results of the empirical study, which has revealed a relationship between the penchant for plagiarism and the indicators of the self-attitude andmotivation for university studies, are presented. It is shown that the most of the students understand the meaning of the word «plagiarism», but at the same time consider situation of plagiarism as acceptable. The article adduces the results of the studies of students’ representations on the prevalence, acceptable and frequency in their own experience the 10 cases of plagiarism. It was revealed that students more inclined to use plagiarism differ by lower level of self-interesting, confidence and communicative motives. It is shown that therecognition of the higher frequency plagiarism in their own learning is also related with lower levels of academic achievement and positive integral self-attitude. More important in psychological terms was identified index of acceptability of plagiarism on representations of students. It is also associated with the lower level of motivation (prestige, creative self-realization, educational and social), self-respect and positive attitude expected from the others.

One of the main conditions of modern education development is continuous improvement of educational quality management. Raising of state and society requirements to specialists“ education, cardinal law reforms and strengthening of state governing and control functions necessitate educational quality management implementation and development. The article describes the experience of system approach to the problem at Yaroslavl State Medical Academy. Internal quality education control system at Yaroslavl State Medical Academy is a part of common quality management system, which is working under supervise of Academy Quality Management Service. Internal quality education control is carried out in several directions: control of educational management efficiency, control of requirements and satisfaction of internal and external customers, control of educational programs, control of preparation, organization and realization of educational process, students’ research and extracurricular activities and resources supply of main processes. Some of these processes are described in the article.

The article analyzes and summarizes the experience of pedagogical college for the development of tools for evaluation of students' knowledge. The paper dwells on the introduction of independent monitoring of educational outcomes and the education quality technology.