Implementation Of Continuing Education Programs In The Process Of The International Integration

Abstract

The article analyzes the practice of implementing continuing education programs in the Russian Federation in the modern conditions of globalization and transition to an innovative economy, where education plays a leading role, allowing a person to develop constantly; it illustrates the modern Russian practice of implementing the approach to education. The authors are concerned with the acute issue of the employees professional correspondence to the positions held, including the problem of so-called employee's "final stop" syndrome caused by the revision of the "state outlook" on the quality of staff training and understanding that even modern university education is not capable of giving knowledge for all life; today the society is stated to be ripe for understanding the need to create/educate highly qualified specialists. Materials and legislative norms that allow determining essential characteristics of these programs implementation are analyzed. The authors attempt to study the influence of some features of the globalization process such as: transformation of knowledge into the main element of social wealth that stimulates a creative approach to solve problems, formation of global information space that ensures implementation of any type of activity in real time, and formation of an effective public management system. The article summarizes that implementation of continuing education programs allowing people to exchange experiences, develop intellectually, learn to solve various problems constructively, will increase the population education level as a whole, thereby contributing to the emergence of highly qualified specialists in various fields.