Education environment of a technical university as a factor of social and professional development of international students

Background. A key factor in foreign applicants' choice of Russian technical universities is a cutting-edge education environment. However, the potential of such an environment to provide strategic conditions for the social and professional development of international students is revealed insufficiently. Purpose. The authors aim to reveal the potential of the education environment of a Russian technical university for successful social and professional formation of international students. Materials and methods. The materials for this article are the works of Russian and foreign scientists, which analysis has provided the theoretical basis to study technical university education environment as a factor of social and professional formation of international students; to summarise knowledge about the stages of this process and appropriate pedagogical strategies. Results. Being a microsociety, the education environment of a technical university belongs to the external factors that determine the success of social and professional formation of international students in together with other external and internal factors. Its essential characteristics are communicative comfort and interactivity; dynamism and activity orientation; practice orientation and implementation of potential in a human being. The potentialities of such an environment are specified by pedagogical realities such as academic everyday life; integration into the industry-related professional community; individualisation, multiplication and intensification of interpersonal relations. These potentialities are implemented via pedagogical strategies of ‘enrichment’, ‘orientation’, ‘inclusion’ and ‘support’ at the stages of ‘academic adaptation’, ‘social integration’, and ‘individualisation of the further education trajectory, self-development and self-advancement’. EDN: RVPIHZ