Keyword: «teacher of higher education»

The social order of the state to improve the quality of education in order to ensure the competitiveness of higher education organizations among world universities determines the need to develop effective modernization strategies in this area. The aim of the article is to update the problem of improving the quality of higher education for further substantiation and testing of the system model of the scientific and methodological university center, which can improve the quality of higher education. The implementation of the article goal was carried out on the basis of systemic, competency-based and personality-oriented methodological approaches. The article analyzes trends in the internal system of quality assurance of higher education in the context of European requirements for scientific and pedagogical activities of teaching staff and substantiates that the introduction of the model of the scientific and methodological university center will contribute to the formation of an integrated system of interconnected information, diagnostic, methodological and other subsystems for further planning and coordination of professional growth of university teachers, as well as the introduction of the scientific and methodological center as a permanent structure in higher education organizations that determines the functioning of the educational and developmental environment of their personal and professional development and self-development. In order to substantiate the relevance of the problem of improving the quality of higher education, an empirical study was conducted among teachers of the branches of the V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University - Humanitarian and Pedagogical Academy (Yalta) and Yevpatoria Institute of Social Sciences. Based on the obtained results, it was found out that there is a motivational request for coordination of the process of improving the quality of professional growth among teachers of higher educational institutions, which, in turn, is an important structural element in the management system of educational activities quality. The theoretical significance of the article lies in describing the essence of the concept of "quality of higher education" and examining the scientific and regulatory framework for interpreting this term, as well as justifying the need to introduce a systemic model of the scientific and methodological university center into the educational process of a university, which can improve the quality of higher education. The practical significance of the article lies in defining the theoretical and methodological basis for further implementation and testing the effectiveness of the proposed systemic model of the scientific and methodological university center to ensure the criterion of higher education quality.