Consulting activities in the modern educational space: necessity or a fad?

The article clarifies the importance of educational consulting and ways to ensure high-quality consulting activities in the modern educational space to form the entrepreneurial competence of specialists. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the basic principles of consulting activities in the modern educational space and the formation of entrepreneurial competence of specialists to ensure a high-quality educational process throughout life. The methodological principles of the study are: leading provisions of the theory of scientific knowledge; general scientific principles of historicism, systematicity, and scientificity; conceptual provisions of pedagogical, psychological, and sociological sciences; ideas of experience based on the synchronous study of pedagogical, socio-cultural and economic phenomena; philosophical and pedagogical ideas for the development of modern education. The components of the entrepreneurial competence of specialists are identified. The main functions of consulting and trends that determine the development of consulting services are shown. The results of the experiment demonstrated the effectiveness and feasibility of the developed methodology aimed at improving consulting activities in the modern educational space.