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Development of the effective education systems and their constant improvement lays a basis for stable function of any state. Economic strategy of Russia and achievement of high living standard for majority of population possible only when educational system in the country will reach international levels. It is well known, that in Russia any University must pass the rigid system of accreditation to satisfy and match federal the educational standards. The main aim of such accreditation is to test quality and depth o...

This article discusses the formation and development of the American and Russian intelligentsia in the first half of the 19th century. An attempt is made to determine the basic prerequisites and sources of formation of the intelligentsia as a special social layer within the national structure of American and Russian society. The characteristic of its separate representatives and specific features of development of their views are presented. Special attention is paid to the American literary intelligentsia, aboliti...

Approximation technologies have regained much interest in recent years in the context of wide variety of computation techniques and large scale optimization. The purpose of this study is to outline the conceptual framework and architectural design of adaptive library for approximate solutions based on multi-extremum functions. Simulation technology of complex systems includes approximation methods as estimation tools. Despite the fast development of computing power and technology, many problems of multi-extremum o...

The aim of an article is to analyze the current state of building security awareness and preparing people up to 15 years of age in the area of extraordinary crisis situations focusing on fire protection. In the framework of the analysis of the current situation using the study of legislation, questionnaire survey and controlled interviews, deficiencies in the given area were identified and solutions were proposed. The target group of the interview was the members of the voluntary fire protection of the Slovak Repu...

Industry 4.0 demands new skill-intensive jobs, which mostly affects engineers? the driving force of innovation. However, it turns out that EU is not all well prepared to face that challenge. The situation varies ? countries like AT and DE have already introduced WBL (=Work based Learning) at tertiary level to produce industry-ready engineers while others suffer a high level of youth unemployment due to skills mismatch caused often by industry-irrelevant traditional academic education. Within e.g. the regions of Ga...

The article deals with issues related to the use of a universal multi-subject mapping method belonging to the technology of visualization of educational information in the preparation of bachelors. The cartographic method of teaching is characteristic in that it allows you to visualize both the geographic proper and any simulated space, to investigate, first of all, its spatial structural patterns of the structure (the form often determines the content). In the process of learning, the use of the cartographic meth...

The main objective of the article is to compare the current state of professional preparation of crisis management in Slovak and Czech Republic. Various negative phenomena in the life of human society create non-standard crisis situations. Extraordinary crisis situations bring undesirable political instability, social unrest, disruption of information flow and structural arrangements, as well as a number of other threats to the lives of people in the region. Crisis management is aimed at preventing such situations...

The article is devoted to the problems of managing master programs in the field of economics and management. The theoretical and empirical analysis made it possible to conclude that the existing masters programs in economics and management do not fully meet the modern requirements of the business environment, including geology, exploration and mining enterprises. The key factors that influence the gap between the competencies formed by graduates of programs and those demanded by the business environment are identi...

This study is devoted to the development of e-learning technologies for disabled students with violation of musculoskeletal system. These works are focused on creation an intellectual decision support system for inclusive education process, providing an individual approach and personalized e-learning for students with disabilities. Currently, there are several approaches and various techniques for creation education systems, and the investigation in artificial intelligence has been one of the most successful areas...

Ecological education is considered as a holistic cultural phenomenon, which includes the processes of education, upbringing, development of the person, the basis for the formation of ecological culture, a significant component of the system of national education of students and students. The ecological competence of future biology teachers today is defined as the ability to apply environmental knowledge and experience in life situations, guided by the priority of environmental values and responsibility for the env...

The following article is devoted to ecological education in university training of future geologists. The purpose of our research is a comprehensive study of the concept of ?ecology of education? and the determination of its place in higher education. The object of the study is the methods of teaching students - geologists. The relevance of this study lies in the fact that it responds to the growing interest in the processes of environmental communication and its modeling capabilities. We try to underline the role...

For several years already, Latvian companies have been participating in the evaluation of Sustainability Index where the environment is an important factor. Sustainability Index is a tool aiming to help companies in establishing the level of sustainability and responsibility. In addition, it supports and praises the enterprises that help to strengthen the Latvian economy, environment, and society in the long term. One of the elements of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the impact of the organization on soc...

The world population will demand twice as many resources as our planet can provide by year 2030 [13]. Therefore, there is a need for more creative problem solving and understanding the situation. To address complex environmental challenges, the education about the environment is necessary. If in the 21st century we want successful general management with the right business fundamentals and decisions, then we cannot exclude the knowledge of the environment. The new business leaders must fundamentally take a respons...

If the strategic goal of education is declared as social economic progress, the humanity should not have any problems with solving its current and future problems significant for the living arrangement of the world population. It should be noted that the process of globalization of a biospheric environmental disaster is not an urgent problem for Russia. In particular, Russia has spent its territorial biocapacity by 50% and, as a consequence, it acts as a global ecodonor. However, even in the 80s of the last centur...

Geography cannot be limited to simple and in brief statements in contemporary society and real life. The comprehension of reality and its different and complex aspects assumes the complexity of the geographic research. And the philosophy of construction of the educational (school) geography could not ignore that fact. At the same time, the repeating didactic problems and realities require to answer the following questions: In what is encoded the school geography significance? What are the limits of geographic know...

The article argues in favor of an integrated indicator of quality of services of higher education institutions. This indicator is calculated relying on the balanced scorecard methodological tools modified to be suited to higher education. The integrated indicator which has been developed incorporates interrelated sets of criteria used to ensure the quality of higher education services such as academic performance and research activity among students, the way in which the quality of educational services is assessed...

A new mineralogical application for mobile phones and tablets was created named MINS (Mineral Identifier for Non-Specialists). Android Studio was employed in order to implement it in Java for Android devices and is compatible with versions starting from 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). MINS is an application for macroscopic identification of the most common minerals (about 99%) that exist on the upper crust of the earth. The user has the choice of identifying a mineral or to see a list with the most common minerals. In t...

Formation and development of the centralized national system of qualifications has become a burning issue in the Russian Federation. This is due to a number of essential reasons, which include globalization of the economy, specifying of universal competencies being in demand in the labor market, the existing gap between university curricula and professional standards requirements. The article aims at presenting a review of the relationship between the Russian national qualifications system, its evaluation of labor...

Practice-oriented learning is the process of students mastering an educational program in order to develop their practical skills through the implementation of real practical tasks. The basis of practice-oriented learning is the optimal combination of education with applied training. The introduction of a practical-oriented approach to the educational process is determined by the need to search for adequate educational technologies - a set of tools and methods for teaching students to successfully implement the ef...

College of Logistics is engaged in the research of activities within logistics processes from production support to complete logistics chains. In this context, work is being done on the analysis of logistics processes according to the Industry 4.0 concept. The aim of the paper is to show the application of this approach in the teaching of subjects focused on logistic processes. In the paper, we want to show an attempt to manufacturing/production logistics ?as a service? based on digital twins. (We understand that ...

Digitalisation is rapidly evolving worldwide, thus information exchange and electronic products have become an important part of life as well as e-services, which need to be provided not only by companies but also by public authorities. Expansion of digital technologies is seen as an economic, technological and social development phenomenon. Higher education plays a key role in preparing future generations and exploiting the opportunities of the digital economy, thus it is essential that they actively use the oppo...

The topicality of the issue: The quality of education is one of the indicators and is a foundation of a sustainable development of the country. Therefore, the focus of attention in educational reforms in Latvia is quality education. Quality education is a dynamic concept that evolves over time and is a subject of change in line with changes of social, economic and environmental conditions. In this paper, the understanding of quality education is related to meeting the needs and expectations of customers. The major...

The purpose of our research is to develop and implement a long-term strategy for organizing independent work of students through the formation of students? autonomy culture in a foreign language setting. To achieve the goal set and verify the main provisions, we used the methods of theoretical and empirical research. Theoretical investigation included an analysis of pedagogical and psychological literature on the development of students' cognitive activity and learning autonomy in higher education. Empirical metho...

The paper considers the model of formation of students? environmental and legal competence; gives a comparative analysis of the three components of the environmental and legal competence: motivational and values-based, cognitive and activity-based components; identifies the four groups of students: preschoolers aged 5-6 years, primary school students aged 7-10 years, middle school students aged 11-14 years, and senior pupils aged 15-18 years.The results of the survey, testing before and after the introduction of t...

There has been a sweeping increase in a number of universities in the Russian Federation that are moving to implement courses and programs through English medium instructions (EMI). In other words, English is being used to deliver and teach content in the sciences, math, history, business, and engineering both in public and private education at all stages ? primary, secondary, and tertiary one. With the aim to promote international exchange, raise the quality and prestige of educational establishments, and provide...

The aim of the paper is to develop communication skills on professional topics to students studying oil and gas activity. We argue that it is effective to organize the teaching by means of using professional context, developing lexical skills. In order to design a professional context we suggest role-play activities related to oil and gas theme for students; development of lexical skills is possible in both language exercises and communicative ones. Methods of research presuppose theoretical analysis of relevant l...

The introduction of competence-based approach in higher education intended to increase the practical orientation of the training process, its connection with the life and future professional activity. To reach this traditional teaching methods are complemented by innovative ones creating conditions for student activity putting him in a free choice and decision making situation. The article is devoted to the case methods use in the educational process as an active tool of professional training of natural sciences t...

This article is dedicated to the peculiarities of geology development in higher educational establishments in Russia in 20-21 centuries exemplified by two Tomsk universities ? Tomsk State University and Tomsk Polytechnic University. The theme is discussed in regards to transformation of the finance system for geological practices during the transition from planned to a market economy. This transformation has led to a slack demand for some types of geological works, which further brings us to discrepancy between th...

Digitalization in business environment and management processes at the same time entails the need for additional skills to prepare clients and members of society by explaining to them the nature and use of products. Therefore, senior and middle managers have to be not only knowledgeable in their profession and develop the relevant hard skills but also, due to the labour market demand, have to be aware of importance of soft skills? training and understanding. In the process of developing study courses in life scien...

This article is dedicated to the problem of interaction between regional geological practices and geological education in the classical university exemplified by Siberian educational entities. Turning to real geological works in classical universities can reveal new aspects of geological knowledge for historians and methodologists of geology. It is important to emphasize that regional works are fundamental for all types of geological practices. It was proved that decline in funding for regional geological works th...

The article examines the experience of using geographic information systems (GIS) in the preparation of specialists of geographers in higher education institutions of Ukraine. Educational and professional training programs for geographers at the Kherson State University are represented as a basic model. The main accent is put on differences of programs according to the existing three specialties, for which the training is carried out: 103 Earth Sciences, 106 Geography and 014.17 Secondary Education (Geography). Th...

It is a well-known fact that in today?s globalizing world, information, communication and IT are intrinsic to modern society. Information technologies have certainly affected the sphere of education, namely higher educational institutions. Progressive development of the Internet as a system of shared access gives new opportunities of acquiring knowledge. A specialist of the XXI century should be able to use information resources productively, as well as to think creatively and have communication skills. LMS (Learn...

Lots of employers expect from their employees, apart from professional competences, a team work ability and ability to effectively implement team projects. However, few high schools and faculties in their curricula provide students with knowledge on teamwork, and therefore, graduates do not have appropriate competences in this area. In the course of studies, students usually learn about advanced IT tools for specialized applications, but they are rarely taught how to use groupware. As a part of the course on Infor...

Krasnoyarsk Territory is a region of Russia, where the diversified economy of the country is represented. There are mining, metallurgical, petrochemical, timber, woodworking and other industries. Such a developed infrastructure of the economy provides stable needs for qualified specialists-engineers, technologists, power engineering specialists. It is clear that the system of higher and secondary vocational education is aimed at training personnel who are ready to participate in the regional development effectivel...

When teaching in schools, especially in vocational subjects, it is very important to attract and motivate students to work independently, not only to remember important facts, but also to develop their ability to seek new solutions independently. One of the active assistants in achieving this goal can be the active use of information technology that is close to the current young person. In addition, it is essential not only to learn new knowledge in education, but also to educate them towards an active approach to...