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The article emphasizes that the formation of competencies is done by the means of the content of education. The student develops the ability and opportunity to solve real problems in everyday life: from the everyday ones to the industrial and social. The competence approach corresponds to such modern requirements as providing continuous education. The author finds that the education system is built on the competitive basis; this is a new approach in education involving the creation of new teaching techniques and new methods of testing the effectiveness of training. The competence-based approach as a basis for renewal of the education system combines intelligent and skill components of education. These components are often unrelated, when knowledge is communicated in isolation from their use in practical situations. Into the concept of competence there is put a new ideology of interpretation of the content of education formed on the basis of result. The meaning of the application of the competence approach in education is that in the course of training there is developed the ability to solve problems in different spheres and types of activities based on the use of social experience, the element of which is the own experience of the students. In Russia, the requirement of readiness for change is specified in the requirements preparation for life, in the situation of transition to the civil society with market economy. The competence-based approach focuses on the construction of educational process according to the results of education: the curriculum initially includes the parameters and descriptions of what the learner will know and be able to do after graduation. While the traditional qualification meant the functional correspondence between the requirements of the employer and the objectives of education, whereas the training was reduced to assimilation by the students of the more or less standard set of knowledge, skills − the competence involves the development in man's ability to orientate in the variety of complex and unpredictable work situations, to have ideas about the consequences of own actions and be responsible for them, which is based on receiving fundamental scientific knowledge during training. Today the level of education is not determined by the volume of knowledge and their encyclopedic character. From the positions of the competence approach, the level of education is determined by the ability to solve problems of various complexities on the basis of knowledge. This approach does not deny the value of knowledge, but it focuses on the ability to use this knowledge.