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Among the basic modern tendencies of the world development that condition the essential changes in the education system, there are: acceleration of the society development and, as a consequence, the necessity of preparing people for the life in quickly changing conditions; transition to postindustrial, information society, significant expansion of the scales of intercultural interactions, in connection with which a special importance is acquired by the factors of communicative skills and tolerance. The attention of the author is to the issues of emergence and aggravation of global problems which can be solved only as a result of cooperation within the international community, and also to the questions of widening the opportunities of political and social choice; to the problems of dynamical development of economy, the deep structural changes in the industrial sphere, which result in the constant need of increasing the professional qualification and retraining of workers, their professional mobility growth.