Today, the educational services market of educational services is characterized by high competition among higher education institutions. The article analyzes the impact of the quantity and quality of contract students on the activities of an educational organization. The issue of positioning an educational organization is considered as one of the important aspects in the competition for contract students.

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the opinions of modern students of technical specialties and students of humanitarian specialties regarding the introduction of artificial intelligence resources in the educational process, as well as in the study of higher mathematics. The results of an online survey of students are given, on the basis of which conclusions are drawn.

In the conditions of the modern world, when the term “security” is filled with vital meaning more than ever, society should make maximum efforts to adapt a person to the conditions of the technosphere and form risk-oriented thinking in him. A significant amount of this work falls on the teaching staff, who should teach the younger generation the basic rules of safe existence in modern realities, since it is with the training of future teachers of housing and communal services that a long and continuous path of teaching the population measures to prevent and protect against the dangers of our environment begins. The article deals with the problems of improving the quality of the subject-profile training of a bachelor of education in the field of life safety. As a solution, the author suggests using the potential of extracurricular activities of students to form professional skills in the noxological and pedagogical fields. The examples of the activities of student organizations given in the article show their relationship with the results of the development of educational material in the process of academic activity and the impact of specialized extracurricular activities on the further employment of students in the specialty.

The article discusses approaches which formed the basis for constructing a model for the formation of reflexive-prognostic skills, provides a brief description of each chosen approach and its impact on the construction of the model, describes the necessary theoretical and methodological provisions and the legal framework underlying the model. The given model is given a description of its structure, elements, blocks and a brief description of each block is given, indicating its functionality in the operation of the model itself. The article presents those researchers whose works were used in drawing up a model for our study. An attempt is made to present the developed structure of the digital educational environment in which the formation of reflective and predictive skills will take place.

Socio-economic changes in the national economy of the country also affect the education system. Following the changes in the economy, there is a transformation in the education system: new approaches are being introduced to the organization, content and management of the educational process. One of the successful innovations was the use of a cluster approach. However, the pandemic has brought significant changes to the educational process. Distance, blended learning, digitalization have expanded educational opportunities. Numerous educational organizations have emerged (courses, schools, knowledge centers, etc.). They are in demand by students. They are not included in the educational clusters, and they do not want to be. This means that new forms of educational process management are needed, for example, an ecosystem approach in education. Educational ecosystems allow students to constantly update their knowledge, master new competencies throughout their lives, thereby creating a human ecosystem.

The article examines the prospects for the development of higher education in the Russian Federation, modern conditions and factors that have a significant impact on its organization and content, as well as an assessment of the vectors of this development by specialists and the scientific community.

Based on a qualitative survey, the paper draws a picture of graduates’ selfperception in conditions of high-speed information exchange. The study raises the issue of how to improve today’s educational efficiency viewed as a mechanism for the reproduction of a new subject of historical action. Such a formulation of research problem allows us to draw attention to the consolidated Nonwestern potential for improving the quality of modern educational process. The potential under consideration is largely based on the hitherto neglected scope of intangible capital linked to untapped digital possibilities of multiculturalism. This implies not a direct, mindless copying of Western educational standards, but a synthesis of the best in the world education systems related to our own rich pedagogical traditions of higher education. The obtained results and conclusions can be helpful in fine tuning the interaction between teachers and trainees in national higher education.

The article presents research data on the career orientations of part-time teacherstudents. An analysis of domestic and foreign sources shows that part-time students are a diverse group. Comparison of the results of diagnostic testing of full-time and part-time students using E. Schein’s methodology shows that both groups are predominantly oriented towards service, stability, and integration, but these orientations are less pronounced among part-time students. In addition, indicators of service and professional competence orientations are related to work experience in the profession and future professional plans.

The study provides a logical and meaningful analysis of scientific articles devoted to the peculiarities of additional training or retraining of teachers who do not have a specialized pedagogical education. The conditions for the formation of pedagogical skills, technologies and methods for improving the quality of university teaching are determined.

Nowadays socially important professions are in high demand on the labor market. One of these specialties is pharmacy, which requires responsible training, as the employee performs the duties of interacting with people and providing them with medical care. Therefore, universities face the urgent problem of creating psychological and pedagogical conditions and introducing them into educational practice. It is also worth considering that classical approaches are aimed only at the formation of a system of competencies, and they must be mastered with high quality. Based on this, we analyzed the specifics of practiceoriented approach, the goals of which are to obtain and apply practical skills in production.

At the turn of the XX–XXI centuries, G. M. Andreeva, an outstanding worldclass Russian scientist, made a fundamental contribution to the development of theoretical and applied sections of social and psychological and philosophicalsociological knowledge. In connection with her centenary, it is relevant to study the life experience of G. M. Andreeva as one of the founders of post-war Soviet sociology and as the creator of social psychology as an innovative scientific and educational discipline. The novelty of the article lies in the scientific analysis of G. M. Andreeva’s interdisciplinary searches — from social philosophy through empirical sociology and social psychology to higher education pedagogy. By means of institutional-personological and subjective-activity approaches, both the main achievements of G. M. Andreeva’s 65-year scientific and pedagogical activity at Moscow State University and a number of universities, as well as the psychodidactic means of teaching social psychology in higher education developed by her, are characterized.

The paper analyzes the results of sociological study of opinions, preferences and attitudes of students, applicants, their parents and teachers based on the results of focus group interviews on the role of universities in Moscow and the Moscow region as an educational platform for discovering the abilities and fostering personal potential of young people aged 14–35. Regional and territorial differences were recorded during the survey that also helped to identify and reveal future professional expectations of students, their personal preferences and their image of an interesting student’s life.

The article considers a set of measures that ensure the successful formation of technological competence in students. Fundamental aspects of the formation of technological skills are revealed using the example of acquiring experience in the interaction of radiation and matter. This includes theoretical and practical education, scientific research and the application of knowledge in real projects. The competency-based approach is the basis for determining the ways and conditions for increasing the effectiveness of the formation of technological competence in students, as well as the optimal solution of professional problems by graduates using various technologies. Taking into account modern approaches to improving the process of forming technical skills in students in the field of research into the interaction of radiation and matter, the article lays the foundation for further developments in this area.

The article presents the results of a survey of students of the pedagogical direction of training of the Faculty of History of the Northeastern Federal University named after M. K. Ammosov on satisfaction with the quality of the educational process. The results of the survey showed that, in general, students are satisfied with the organization and quality of the educational process at the Department of History, Social Studies and Political Science.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of personnel training for the system of higher professional education. Currently, our country has not formed a scientifically and methodically sound system of personnel training for higher education. The authors analyzed professional standards for the training of specialists in various professional industries. We studied the requirements for knowledge, skills and abilities, outlined the prospects for training these specialists. The presented results are based on a logical and meaningful analysis of literary sources, conducted pedagogical observations and a survey of specialists.