Recommended practices for improving the competitiveness of the Russian education services market under the conditions of the international educational integration

© 2015, Review of European Studies. All right reserved. To achieve and maintain a level of training for competitive specialists who meet modern requirements first and foremost in professional education it requires ensuring the competitiveness of the Russian education services market. In the article the research and methodological practices are proposed for improving the competitiveness of the Russian education services market under the conditions of international educational integration at the federal (legal and regulatory, organizational and pedagogical, organizational and methodological program), regional (legal and regulatory, organizational and administrative, organizational and methodological, and socially-pedagogical program) and university levels (legal and regulatory, organizational and administrative, socially-pedagogical, learning and teaching, and information-technology program). The proposed recommendations in the article are of practical value for international departments of higher education institutions in order to optimize the processes of Russian universities entering into the international educational space

The essential, objective and functional characteristics of the students’ academic mobility in higher education

© 2015, Review of European Studies. All right reserved. The globalization of education triggers fair criticism of the university self-sufficiency in any country to train competent professionals, moreover, today the necessity to expand the students’ academic mobility is universally recognized. The article describes the basic methodological approaches to defining the essence of the concept of “academic mobility”. It explores the goal, objectives, functions of the students’ academic mobility in the context of international educational integration. This publication submits a classification of the forms of academic mobility of the higher education students on the following grounds: on the type of educational process, on the period of study in a foreign educational establishment, on the nature of the students’ involvement. The article can be useful to the academic staff of higher educational institutions, to the staff of the university centers of academic mobility as well as the employees of the university international departments in the development of international cooperation and academic mobility of the students

A Model of Technical University Students’ Creative-Project Activities’ Systemic Commitment to Their Self-Development and the Experimental Verification of Its Effectiveness

The urgency of the need to develop a model of the systemic commitment of creative-project activity of technical university students to their self-development is due to the fact that the reserve possibilities of this type of teaching, research and professional activities from the perspective of the systemic commitment to self-development of the students’ competitiveness remain insufficiently investigated in the theory and practice of teacher education. In this regard, the article presents the main components of the model of systemic commitment of the creative-project activity of technical university students to their self-development, as well as the results for its implementation in practice of higher professional education. The presented components of the model in the article (objectives, contents, methods, learning and educational environment) are working for the ultimate goal − for self-development of professional creativity, self-development of the competitiveness of a student as a prospective specialist. The results of the article can be used by administrators and faculty members of higher education institutions. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s3p12

Synthesis and antiadrenergic properties of β-substituted alcohols based on 6-hydroxymethylpyridoxine

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.An approach to the synthesis of epoxides based on 6-hydroxymethylpyridoxine acetals was developed. The epoxides obtained were involved in the ring opening reactions by nitrogen-, oxygen-, and sulfur-containing nucleophiles. Cytotoxicity and antiadrenergic properties of some synthesized compounds were studied on the models in situ and in vivo

Behavior attitudes of the residents of Tyumen in the field of interethnic relations

The article analyzes the behavior attitudes of the residents of the Tyumen region identified through the monitoring studies conducted from 2001 to 2013 and based on the indicators developed by the author. The author’s hypothesis that the Tyumen region is a relatively calm and peaceful area in terms of interethnic relations was confirmed. Some indicators were examined through the socio-demographic characteristics (gender, age, etc.). The results of the studies conducted by other Russian sociologists are also considered in the article