RUSSIAN ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES EXPORT

The article addresses the issues of the specialist training quality in the dynamically changing global economy. The advantages and disadvantages of the globalization process in education, the risks and promising ways of development of domestic education are studied. Issues of influence of globalization process in education on development of national economies of individual countries are considered. Factors challenging the thesis of equal opportunities for economic growth for countries with different levels of economy in the era of globalization are presented. The decisive role of engineering education and regional technical universities in the economic growth and industrial production of the country has been proved. The most popular methods of assessing the effectiveness of the university, including at the international level, were considered; their advantages and disadvantages are estimated. Ways to improve the quality and competitiveness of domestic education are proposed, such as the universality of initial training in technical universities, which will increase the mobility of students within the country, the development of export of educational services, the convergence of education and industry, the development of targeted training. Approaches to the development of methods of management of innovation activity of the university in terms of organization of international cooperation and export of educational services are proposed. (C) 2020 Published by European Publisher.