International Partnership of the University as a Factor of Competitiveness in the Framework of the Formation of Professional Competencies

Among the main problems of operation that the Russian higher education system comes across in conditions of the global economy at the contemporary stage of social and economic development of the country a separate place is taken by ensuring high competitive ability of higher educational institutions in general and separate educational programs in particular. In this context competitive ability may be reviewed not only as a possibility of the higher educational institution to obtain significant advantages before other higher educational institutions of the educational market that offer educational services similar in content and volume but also a possibility to produce high quality specialists with a set of competences complying with the requirements and expectations of the Russian and international labour markets. The article offers a method for evaluation of competitive ability of a higher educational institution based on the integral index showing quantitative parameters of international cooperation established by the higher educational institution itself and qualitative characteristics defined by the higher educational institution service consumers that will allow classifying the international partnership evaluation parameters and specifying the evaluation carrying out process