HIGHER EDUCATION IN GLOBAL DIGITAL SOCIETY: COMMON FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRAMMES

Higher education objectively is aimed to meet the needs of the future in providing the labor market to specialists who have a set of knowledge, skills, competencies that will be required after five years and more the student enters the university. Accordingly, for universities, the problem of providing programs aimed at a more proactive response to changes in the needs of society in the future remains a topical issue. The development of a comprehensive model of educational process should aim at building competencies that provide a forward-looking response to the changing needs of society in the future, taking into account the trends and prospects for the development of the business environment, information technology and civilization. Long-term benchmark in this case is transformation of higher education systems through the expansion of the relationship between social oriented and professional components as well as the use of substantially certified forms of education in the integrated link "business-state-university". Key point in this way must be the development of lifelong learning with promoting the integrated development of cooperation between industries and public-private partnership through the use of interdisciplinary and multisectoral links. Principles of the education process should include: mobility and flexibility, international orientation, certification of educational items and study programs, practical orientation, emotional intelligence, integration of general competencies between educational programs, block instruction of teaching disciplines (A-baseline, B-medium level, C - advanced level), consolidation of disciplines, the emphasis on the individual component of training. Expected result are strengthening the practical orientation of study programs based on understanding the trends of Civilization, the system of social and individual values, the business environment in the future.