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With studies on soft skills on the rise worldwide, they obviously play a very important role as a basis for employability requirements on the labour market. In Russia, soft skills are beginning to find ways into university curricula. The broad mismatch of the term connotations among educators, students and employers forces researchers to dwell upon the content and scope of soft skills. As there are various and often controversial perceptions and understandings of soft skills, the authors’ primary goal was to defin...

Pervasive changes seem to bring about an increase in the social demand for talented and gifted individuals able to digest an overwhelming delug of information. Such individuals are characterised by a high degree of independence, openness to new experience as well as rational thinking. This state of things implies some educational practices. It might be said that schools, by virtue of their missions, are expected to teach students to effectively apply and make use of the knowledge and skills acquired during the lea...

Creating good relations between teacher and their student determines the student's well-being at school. Many Polish researchers tried to identify the relations between students and teachers (?nie?y?ski 1990, Dylak 1995, ?cis?owska 2000, Brzezi?ska and Rycielska 2009, Szempruch 2012). The development of new technologies in recent years has contributed to the trend of moving communication to cyberspace. In this context, there is a positive impact of social networking in teacher contacts with students (Py?alski, 201...

A human being is viewed from various perspectives. The individual is considered as a multidimensional being. The persons with visual impairment can be exposed to a number of stimuli that influence their biological nature (physiology of the organism), psychological nature (personality), social nature (socialization, inclusion) and spiritual nature (values, belief). We aimed at the different areas of the everyday life in the student with visual impairment. The main objective of the paper is to achieve a deeper under...

The article deals with the process of applying heuristic methods of training in vocational education. For this purpose, the main features of heuristic technology were identified. It is noted that the student's work acquires efficiency in his ability to evaluate his actions, bring the solution to the end, while noting the importance of flexibility in thinking, the ability to update and organize information in the task at hand. The definitions of the concepts "heuristic rules", "heuristic task" are distinguished. Th...

Business ethics is a wide subject that can be applied to all moral or ethical issues that arise in a business environment. Recent business ethics scandals have created a moral minefield of shifting expectations and growing uncertainty about the responsibilities of business. Economies fare better thriving in environments free of scandals, in morally cleaner firms. Firms often start out making good, ethical decisions, but the line separating right from wrong can be easy to cross. The article aptly illustrates that 1...

This article deals with the use of information and communication technologies as a means of educational and professional self-realization of students in the process of university education. The essence of information and communication technologies as a necessary condition for successful student self-actualization is grounded. The main components of the educational and professional self-realization of students of a higher educational institution are revealed. The concept of educational and professional self-actuali...