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The introduction of the competence approach into the educational process is presented now as one of the key methods of increasing its quality and effectiveness. In the article the conditions and the reasons for the increased attention to this approach are examined, the special features of studying this problem in dissertations and monographs, and in the proceedings of seminars and conferences are analyzed. On the basis of facts the author has showed that the conceptual complex of the competence approach used in scientific works does not make it possible to adequately reflect the objective reality. The basic efforts of the researchers are directed toward the enumeration of competences and scopes without guaranteeing their proper connection with the concrete educational programs. The indications of the presence in the competence approach of the semantic content are given without the theoretical substantiation necessary in such cases. A conclusion is made that the competence approach in the education presupposes: the development of a model of the educational institution’s graduate; the establishment of connection between the model of the graduate and the content of education and teaching process; the determination of the position, role and designation of training disciplines in the formation of the public, general and concrete professional qualities of the graduate. The article is aimed at the specialists in the field of education.