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The linear assumption among globalization, international competitiveness, human capital and higher education makes many countries to undertake the expansion of higher education. However, this mission is mainly reliant upon the private sector because neo-liberalism, a core philosophy of globalization, has become a predominant ideology viewing a free market as the best model to improve efficiency and ensure service quality. Its advocates argue that public services cannot meet the diversified needs of people and the ...

In this article author investigates significant problems and contradictions of institutionalization of the master’s degree in Russia. The author concluded that there are four main problems of that process: the insufficient level of preparedness of those who change their field of education by entering the master’s degree program, the contradiction between the content of master’s degree education and the requirements of employer, the problems of academy mobility, absence of regulations to the professional activity o...

With the rapid growth of user generated content on blogs, forums, social networking and microblogging sites, social media analytics has become popular research topic in many different domains in order to shape marketing activities, management strategies, forecast trends, and for better understanding of consumers. Information spreads rapidly through social media sites and has a big impact on shaping public opinion. Negative comments about company, brand or a product/service can have drastic effects on the companys ...

Background: In the article the process of forming holistic world outlook in education space of modern university through the synthesis of both cultures: scientific and humanitarian. Methods: The authors focus on the evolutionary-synergetic approach where transdisciplinary links, relations and interactions are integrated. The differences between disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education structures are denoted. Results: The function of interdisciplinary synthesis in overwhelming cultures aliena...

The article is devoted to the requirements to information competence of future Russian teachers of the humanities. Today, the Russian Federation is going through the process of reforming of the higher education. The Federal state educational standard of higher education is built on the base of competence approach. There is a problem of definition of information competence which will be necessary for future teachers. This article sets out to give a general overview of such requirements. The future humanities teache...