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Vol. 1, No. 1-2, 2018 IJSA

Introduction
Creating a united European educational system and students’ national training in high school and the
Ukraine joining the Bologna process demanded a student’s role in this process.
significant renovation in organisation and content of For the first time an attempt to generalise international
education. The main bases for the higher educational and Ukrainian experience as well as to provide
system, declared by a new edition of the law of methodic recommendations for developing and
Ukraine, create conditions for increasing collaboration modernising сurricula in conditions of the European
of state organs and business with higher educational integration of national higher education was made by
institutions supported by principles of autonomy, scientists (Zakharchenko, Luhovyi, Rashkevych, and
combination of education, science and production Talanova, 2014).
aimed at training competitive human resources for hi- The content modernisation of curricula required their
technological and innovative development of the implementation in high school. It would have been
country, self-realisation of the personality, meeting the possible on the basis of introducing pedagogic logistics
needs of the society, labour market and state in in high school which has an important significance for
qualified workers. In the new edition of the law of solving the outlined tasks. The first research into
Ukraine it is emphasised that training of specialists organising the educational process on the grounds of
should be realised with due regard to the needs of a implementing pedagogic logistics in high school has
personality, interests of the state, territory communities been made by Melnyk and Pypenko (2017), in which
and employers (Law of Ukraine, 2014). the authors proposed methodological and theoretical
Thus, the changes in the education paradigm of training bases for this activity, determined definitions of the
specialists, which should be based on collaboration, are notions: “educational logistics”, “pedagogical
declared by standard. Still, as a rule higher education logistics” and “teaching logistics”.
today remains to be organised into strictly specialised Besides, it was necessary to continue researching and
spheres of knowledge and traditional subjects that improving the issue of organising psychological and
provides training of specialists without taking into pedagogical interaction in high school. Their
account social demand, modern trends and competition theoretical and practical aspects were researched by
at the labour market. That is why it is obvious that such Melnyk (2017).
inflexible training of specialists creates a situation The research of the mentioned above issues will give
when a large part of graduates cannot find a job the possibility to organise the educational process of
according to the major obtained in the university. Thus, the specific higher educational institution with due
realising it they refuse from higher education. This regard to the needs of a personality, interests of the
problematic situation is highly troubling, as for a state and employers, as well as to provide the modern
developing country it is important to train qualified training of specialists, who will be demanded on the
specialists who can make discoveries, create new European and international labour market.
products, develop methods and technologies. The aim of the study. To research issues concerning
There is an urgent necessity to study issues of training modern training of specialists in high school and the
qualified specialists in high school which correspond to student’s role in this process; to ascertain competences,
modern realities and create a reliable basis for pedagogic technologies and methods, demanded by
employing graduates at the European and world labour cadets and students, as well as to forecast perspective
market as well as promote personal and professional trends of studying in higher educational institutions.
development of the youth. Material and methods
Theoretical value and practical significance for To study the issues of training specialists in high
developing issues of training qualified workers in high school a set of methods is used:
school were implemented in scientific works - collecting information (systematic blind written
concerning the problem of organising activity of higher questionnaires);
educational institutions in conditions of globalisation - systematisation;
and internationalisation (Altbach and Knight, 2007). - rating assessment;
Institutional dynamics of European University is - analysis and results interpretation.
researched by Olsen (2007). The mission, spheres of The author’s methods (questionnaires) and instruments
training and trends of university activity (mass higher (Melnyk, 2016; 2017) are applied. We were guided by
education, professional specialised higher education, competences classification based on materials of the
research and academic training) are analysed by Laredo Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education,
(2007). The issues of general management of education QAA, UK and Tuning educational structures in
quality are revealed in the work by Sallis (2014). The Europe, TUNING (Tuning Association, 2010).
research was realised in the countries of the European With the aim to determine the concordance level of
Union and was focused on their peculiarities. The respondents’ ideas, the dispersion coefficient of
realities of the Ukrainian system of higher education Kendall concordance has been calculated, its
and students’ requirements into forming their significance (the calculated value of the criterion
competenсes in the process of studying in high school exceeds the critical one for the significance level of 5%
differ from the European youth (Melnyk, 2017). Thus, and 1%) has been proved on the basis of Pirson’s
there is a necessity to research the modern system of criterion.

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