Keyword: «higher professional education»

The author discusses the relevance of key competencies in the higher education system, once analyzed various approaches to the definition of «professional competence», existing in the domestic and foreign science. The author cites the components of professional competence, functions that perform key professional competence in life of every person.

The article deals with the problem of using innovative technologies in the formation of university students’ general linguistic competency as exemplified by bachelor academic program 44.03.05 Pedagogical Educa-tion, profiles – History and English, Social Studies and English. As a result of the analysis the researcher comes to the conclusion, that the use of dialogue, game, project, computer and integrative educational technologies in the performance of the discipline “Introduction to General Linguistics” allows a lecturer to enhance the level of the desired competency and students’ learning motivation and to approximate the learning process to real conditions of a student’s future professional life.

The thematic justification of this study is due to the fact that in recent years the problem of improving the training level of specialists with higher professional economic education has become of high priority. Today, training should be entertaining, and students should remain highly motivated. This study aims to answer the question whether the using of gamification in the system of higher professional economic education could improve the training level of specialists and how. The methodological basis of this study is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the main place is occupied by the analysis of literature on the problem of the research, pedagogical experiment, questioning and methods of mathematical statistics. The result of the study is the conclusion that the implantation of gamification in the system of higher professional education could improve the degree of training of students upon many parameters.