Formation of the professional self-improvement competence formation of the university students

Nowadays, the competence-based approach in learning provides the formation of the following competencies such as core, basic, special, and which meet the requirements of the educational standard and the criterion for assessing the effectiveness of the quality of vocational education management. Fulfilling the requirements of the labour market of the training quality of the university student, and requirements of the expert for his professional and socio-cultural status, and his competitiveness as well as the professionally necessary qualities of personality can be done in case when among the period of training the future specialist will possess the professional competence, which is understood as an integral characteristic of the individual specialist, which includes not only the degree of mastery of knowledge and skills in a particular area of professional activity, but also the ability to live and function effectively in society. In the system of basic competencies the competence of personal self enhancement of future specialists plays a special role, the essence of which is considered to be the ability to create self-development programs based on forward-looking analysis of market requirements and tendencies in the cultural environment, also owning the methods of self-possession and self-control, as well as the necessity for the continuous expansion of the space of their life, and ability to conduct self feed back to their professional readiness. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license