Keyword: «гибкие навыки»

The article outlines key trends of global labor market development for the next five years, which will inevitably bring new challenges for Russian higher education. It lists skills, which are most likely to be demanded in five years by employers. The author explains why it is extremely important now to focus on developing cognitive skills for future professional success. The article also shows some impact factors, which are going to influence the quality of higher education in the future, and discusses two problems which are likely to be encountered during the transformation of Russian national higher education system.

Modern educational paradigm faces the wide range of problems nowadays. One of the main issues is the problem of transition of high school leavers from narrow school world to the ‘adult’ world. While choosing their path whether to continue studying or to start working, graduates realize that they do not have the required set of skills needed for effective functioning in the nearest future. This problem generates other similar problems, such as the problem of career choosing, inability to make decisions, set goals and take on a responsibility. Such uncertainty worries young people and make them and their parents feel anxious which leads to early sending down from institutions of higher education, unjustified expectations and the feeling of time wasted in vain. The desire to solve this problem has helped us decide the direction of our study. That is why the aim of our study is to reveal the peculiarities of eduScrum tecnology influence on soft skills development. Having based on eduScrum technology, we have studied it thoroughly and discovered that this methodology leads students and teachers to the improvement of academic results in learning the school program when it is followed according to the strict plan. The next step in our study was the consideration of soft skills as the idea that is becoming more and more popular in applied linguistics. Soft skills today are regarded as an important stage of students’ development, because they represent those qualities, which would be useful in future work or education. In addition, the relevance of this study is justified by the lack of related works on the impact of eduScrum on the development of soft skills in schoolchildren. We may draw a conclusion that the described problem was not studied from such a side, and that has become the main criterion for choosing it. The question of potential of eduScrum technology in soft skills formation and development was studied both theoretically and practically and it is our MA thesis statement. The result of the research experiment is the electronic manual for teachers and students aimed to facilitate the studying process, to structure it and to enhance the results. Simultaneously with studying goals we also managed to raise awareness of our students about soft skills and develop some of them during the work with eduScrum.