Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2017 number 3

Bologna declaration considers the quality of education as a basis of competitiveness of educational system. The idea of lifelong learning, that is converted into the uniform concept of transnational education, puts forward a problem of ensuring quality of pre-university education as triad element as «pre-university education- higher education - postgraduate training». The authors sees breaches in lifelong learning of national universities and foreign universities as a threaten of loosing competitiveness in international educational space. Due to this fact, the responsibility of training competitive professional lies upon pre-university education as it comprises formal training, non-formal education and informal training. The author sees relevance and competitiveness of pre-university educational programs and alumni competitiveness of pre-university training departments in realization of conceptual bases of modernization of pre-university educational space, implementation of innovative educational technologies, introducing of innovative component into general educational programs and changes in the way of teaching. The paper reveals integrative model of pre-university training which is called University lyceum. This model is rendered as a fundamental core in lifelong learning system of the university and combines resources and educational capacities of secondary education, vocational education and further training in the region. The described model isn't restricted by the problems of professional self-determination, career guidance and pre-professional development. This model is aimed at formation of professional qualities and transfer from the subject to profile (metasubject) implementation of the contents of pre-university education. Application of the model contributes to quality improvement of pre-university education, provides lifelong lerning and continuity of educational preparation in higher education institution and improvement of quality of enrollment of students.