PEDAGOGICAL DESIGN OF ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES OF HIGHER EDUCATION BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF SEVERAL QUALIFICATIONS

It is quite difficult for today’s graduates to remain in demand in the labour market. Many universities in the Russian Federation, based on federal laws, letters from the Ministry of Education and Science, and methodological recommendations, have taken the path of combining higher education programmes with additional education programmes - professional retraining programmes, vocational training programmes. The article analyses the regulatory framework for the integration of programmes, the experience of universities in the Russian Federation. The authors present the results of a study on the design of educational programmes of higher education and integrated professional retraining programmes. The organisational and pedagogical conditions for their implementation are highlighted, and examples of the integration of “additional qualification” modules into the curricula of higher education training areas are given. The positive results of the study and the points worth considering are presented.