Abstract: The object of this research is the business games as an effective method of corporate training for the acting executives and candidate pool. The subject of this research is the impact of business gamed upon the development of specific competences of the executives. The authors compare the Russian and foreign experience of conducting business games in corporate training, highlighting such aspects that the corporate training specialists are guided by in elaboration and selection of business games for the high-profile and demanding audience. The study is based on the analysis of Russian and foreign publication dedicated to corporate training, business games and innovative teaching methods for adults, as well as empirical data acquired as a result of elaboration and performance of corporate training of the candidate pool of the aerospace industry by one of the co-authors in 2017-2018. It is concluded that the method of business games is effective if adheres to the androgogic training principles, including systematicity, learning though experience, reflexivity, etc. In such case, it leads to achievement of such pedagogical goals as involvement of the participants in educational process, formation of new practical skills, development of competences, and so forth. The scientific novelty lies in paying sufficient attention to analysis of the impact of business games upon the development of competences of the executives. The materials can be used in development of modular programs of candidate pool training in the corporations.

Keywords: game-based learning approach, corporate competencies model, simulation, business game, executive education, competencies development, corporate learning, high potentials, motivation, principles of andragogy

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the results of the regular stage of monitoring (2016-2017) of the newest changes in the strategy of managing science, innovations, and higher education in the United Kingdom due to the referendum consequences on the country’s exit from the European Union. Special attention is given to the examination of strategic documents and decisions of the British government, including the new law on higher education and science (April of 2017). The authors analyze the content and meaning of the current conceptual and organizational changes, as well as predict the possible consequences. A conclusion is made that intensification of the course towards centralization of management system, restriction of academic freedoms, and methods of dirigisme in the development of science, innovations, and higher education are associated with the escalation of crisis phenomena in the country and unaccounted “Brexit” effects. It is noted that at the present moment, the growing financial responsibilities of the British government before the academic community is a way of defusing the political tension, rather than the circumspect development strategy. Further monitoring of the British experience will allow assessing the efficiency of the new course from the perspective of its productivity and correspondence of the selected methods with the set goals and tasks.

Keywords: Brexit, European Union, United Kingdom, Economy of knowledge, Science Policy, Research and development, Higher Education, Industrial Strategy, Government investment, Government spending

Abstract: The subject of the research is to study the process of teaching the basic discipline “Numerical Methods” to the students of mathematics. The paper provides the main approaches to teaching of numerical methods. The hypothesis is made that motivation to learning the discipline, necessary time for examination and understanding of material of the course depends on the level of development of numerical cognition. The authors clarify the notion of "numerical cognition" as a cognitive process, determine the abilities needed to develop the numerical cognition of students, as well as propose tools for organizing the learning process. Methods of system dynamics and dynamic visualization are used for organizing the educational activity. As the key means, the authors also review the mental maps and animation, which from the perspective of information approach represent most efficient tool for visualization of information. The main conclusion of the conducted research lies in the fact that the suggested methods and means significantly affect the development of identified components of numerical cognition of students, and therefore, the successful studying of the course “Numerical Methods”. This has been confirmed by the pedagogical experiment carried out in the Siberian Federal University.

Keywords: methods of system dynamics, dynamic visualization, teaching means, learning methods, numerical methods, numerical cognition , mental maps, algorithmic thinking, abstraction, e-course

Abstract: This article presents the results of the study on the demand of the main elements of electronic education by foreign students that are implemented in the educational process of medical university while working with English language. The author examines the advantages and flaws of the presented elements of electronic education in the bilingual environment, as well as the questions of the necessity of their comprehensive application in combination with the traditional methods of education in the higher school. Based on the empirical material, the author conducts a research of the aspects of purposefulness of implementation of various elements of electronic education for the establishment of cultural and professional competency of foreign students with the different level of educational and learning activity. The prospects of implementation of the main elements of electronic education alongside the measures on increasing its efficiency for the foreign students in English language are being reviewed. The goal of this work is to examine the specificity of implementation of electronic education in the bilingual environment of medical university.

Keywords: Advantages of electronic education, Medical education, Elements of electronic education, Bilingual environment, Specificity of electronic education, Demand for electronic education, Academic score, Efficiency of electronic education, Higher education, Electronic education

Abstract: The object of this research is the content of education in the post-graduate school. The subject is the peculiarities of teaching the program of “Psychology and Pedagogy of the Higher School” within the system of training of the highly qualified personnel.  The author substantiates the pedagogical importance of this program in the post-graduate school, which became the final level of the higher education, and focuses his attention on the main difficulties that faces an educator who lectures this class. A special attention is given to the questions of thematic content of the aforementioned discipline, as well as to the specifics of the work with post-graduate students. This research is based in the materials from the articles dedicated to the issues of development of the higher school, as well as on the empirical data acquired as a result of personal work with post-graduates. The author’s main conclusion consists in the fact that gaining the qualification of the “Educator-Researcher” by all alumni of the post-graduate school, which is confirmed by the corresponding state-recognized diploma, makes relevant the questions of psychological-pedagogical training of post-graduate students of various major, while the program “Psychology and Pedagogy of the Higher School” in essence represents the only discipline that allows to systematically expound the scientific basis of the educational process in the higher educational facility. Scientific novelty consists in the attention towards the third level of higher education and the issues of a specific program within it.

Keywords: Graduate School, high school, psychology, pedagogy, economics of education, management in education, professor, interactive learning, researcher, PhD