Elvira Kondrakova

The article deals with the problems and ways of modernization of Russian education designed to raise the quality of training for various areas of public and economic sectors. The article describes the implementation of the competence-based approach in Russian education, which shifts the emphasis from the content of education on learning outcomes. In the basis of educational models in different countries, and now Russia, lies the path of transition to a multi-level system of training, as the basis for their lies on the common European framework of qualifications.