The power of partnership in higher education

The article considers the content and essential features of partnership, identifies the main principles of partnership, and shows their role in the internal system of ensuring the quality of education in a higher education institution; indicates significant approaches and barriers in the process of implementing partnership pedagogy, the most common methods of cooperation between enterprises and organizations and higher education institutions, clusters of partnership forms and partnership models of business structures and universities. The advantages and directions of partnership in the organization of the educational process of higher education institutions and cooperation with business corporations are substantiated. The purpose of the experimental work was to prove the need to implement the developed author's methodology for forming the communicative competence of future specialists when implementing partnership relations, which will contribute to the growth of the creative level of partnership interaction and, as a result, the communicative competence of the future specialist. The results of the comparison of the ascertaining and formative stages of the experiment indicate positive changes in the levels of formation of communicative competence of future specialists of the experimental group when implementing partnership relations. The results of the experiment make it possible to speak about the effectiveness of the methodology for the formation of communicative competence of future specialists when implementing partnership relations at the formative stage of the experiment.