On the Continuity of Engineering Training in the "School-University" System Based on the Creation of a Center of Modern Competencies

Technological education of schoolchildren is currently a priority for the development of educational systems. Intensive development of nanotechnologies, robotics, biotechnologies requires improvement of competences of scientific and technological personnel, integration of knowledge and various directions of professional activity. Training of engineering personnel is possible only in the system of continuous professional education, each level of which provides step-by-step formation of competences of the specialist. The article deals with the problem of continuity of engineering training. The solution to this problem can be achieved by means of specially organized pre-university training of students, which is oriented towards training in basic subjects related to engineering training in secondary school and university. Unique opportunities to implement continuity of general secondary and higher vocational education programs are offered if there are structural subdivisions in higher education institutions engaged in such pre-university training. A new division - the Center of Modern Competences - has been created at Vologda University. The educational center implements projects: "Children 's University," Small Academy, "Technology lesson." In the Center for Modern Competences of Children through educational programs, schoolchildren form modern competences, primary skills of project management, team work, research and inventive skills, knowledge of the foundations of modern technologies, including programming, use of big data, information resources.