Improving the quality of education by integrating network universities and businesses

The achieved values of the above indicators ensure the Polish Republic, Lithuania (since 2011), the Russian Federation (since 2015) and the Republic of Belarus (since 2017) being in a group of countries with a very high level of human development.

3. Directions for improving the education system

To maintain and increase the achieved positions along with the development of the economy and society, it is also necessary to improve the education system, since the state can lose or gain educated people, respectively reducing or increasing its intellectual potential. The index of the development of the intellectual potential of a society is an essential component of the index of the development of human potential, therefore increasing the intellectual potential, and with it the quality of education, is becoming a global goal for the development of modern society.

The problems of universities as the main generators of innovations and producers of educational services in such conditions of development are quite extensive. The main problem that the education system needs to solve is to form an optimal model of vocational training that would overcome the lag in the structure, volumes and quality of labor resources from the real requirements of specific enterprises and organizations.

One of the ways to improve the quality of educational services is the creation of network universities by integrating universities and network interaction, which implies the formation of a network of universities that cooperate with each other. This involves the interaction of universities at the level of joint educational programs and research, the competence exchange and strengthening of each individual university by complementing the integral competencies.

The interaction mechanism is quite simple: the use of those competencies that are absent or poorly represented in one's own university.

Specific tools are: joint projects financed by all parties involved in them, joint virtual laboratories, departments, centers that would allow the exchange of scientific research, students, teachers, etc., massive open online courses.

The academic mobility of students, which is one of the highest priority areas of activity of such associations, can be one of the forms of a network association of universities. Facilitating students' access to partner universities is an urgent task for any network organization of higher education. Admission to a network university increases the student's chance to take part of the studies at a foreign university, which has a positive effect on both student motivation and the image of the university.

One example of a network university is the Network University of the Commonwealth of Independent States, created in 2008 with the support of the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS Member States. The CIS Network University consortium includes 27 leading universities from nine countries: the Republic of Armenia, the Azerbaijan Republic, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and Ukraine. The aim of the project is to improve the quality of higher education and its attractiveness, the development of cooperation and inter-university relations in the CIS [3]. In 2013, the “Network of Frontier Universities” was created, which initially included 3 Universities of the Republic of Belarus, 3 Universities of the Russian Federation, 2 Universities of Ukraine, 1 Polish and 1 Lithuanian universities [4]. Such projects contribute to the joint positioning of universities in the international arena, strengthen the interaction of universities at the level of joint educational programs and research, and increase the image and prestige of the education system.

The key point in the development of the modern system of higher education is the interaction of universities and business. The active participation of employing companies in the process of training future specialists is a necessary and prerequisite. Such cooperation complements the process of fundamental academic preparation with practical knowledge and skills in the field of modern and advanced technologies, elements of management, business and corporate culture, business communication skills, etc., adapting the graduate to the real conditions of his future work. Practical orientation allows students to acquire the necessary minimum of professional skills, experience in organizational work, a system of theoretical knowledge, professional mobility and competence. The practice of employing graduates in recent years shows that potential employers in the selection of personnel express interest in personnel who already have, in addition to special education, work experience [Sereda, 2018, p. 426].

Strengthening the practice-oriented education involves the use of a dual system of vocational training, which has received international recognition as a form of training. The essence of dual training is a balanced combination of theory and practice through the cooperation of enterprises, educational institutions, and authorities.

The introduction of the dual training system provides significant advantages for the employer, for the educational institution, for the future specialist and for the state, which effectively solves the problem of training qualified personnel for its economy. The advantages of the dual training system (compared with the traditional form of training) include [Voronko, Sereda, 2018, p. 72]:

* strengthening the practice-oriented educational process, while maintaining the level of the theoretical component;

* training of specialists in accordance with the real needs of employers, which contributes to the employment of a significant number of graduates due to the needs of employers;

* the formation of professional, social, organizational, psychophysiological adaptation by influencing the personality of a specialist in the process of practical training at the enterprise;

* ensuring higher motivation of students in obtaining knowledge, due to the high-quality performance of official duties at the workplace;

* saving financial resources for the selection and selection of personnel increases the interest of employers in the education and training of their future employees;

* the concentration of the institution on the transfer of fundamental knowledge, allows to increase not only the mobility of the graduate in the professional direction, but also makes him competitive in the modern labor market;

* reduction of budget costs for training specialists, co-financing of the training process by the business;

* increasing the material, technical and technological equipment of the educational process;

* realization by students of the possibilities of independent financial support during their education.

The most relevant today are the associative forms of integration of universities based on the processes of network interaction between a sufficiently large number of sectors representing science, education and business: universities, state scientific organizations, small high-tech companies, large businesses. This form of partnership is more complex than cooperation between individual scientific organizations and private enterprises.

In the interaction of universities and enterprises, it is advisable to use active forms of participation of existing specialists and experts of enterprises in the educational process.

The main forms of such interaction are:

- the participation of employers in the formation of curricula and training programs for specialists;

- organization of Internship and graduate design of students in the partner organization;

- targeted training for specialists of the partner organization;

- use of personnel and scientific and technical potential of partner organization in the educational process, including through the creation of branches of departments;

- development and implementation together with students of integrated, interdisciplinary, professional projects that subsequently go into graduation theses;

- the use of remote interactive forms of organization of the educational process, the creation of conditions for students to carry out labor activities according to the profile of the specialty while studying at the university.

4. Conclusion

The use of network interaction in conjunction with practice-oriented, solves several problems at the same time: it improves the quality and image of professional education, increases the motivation of students, reduces the shortage of highly qualified workers. The high reliability of such a system is explained by the fact that it meets the interests of all parties involved (business, educational institution, enterprises, students, and the state).

The integration between network universities and business allows us to modernize the educational process taking into account the requirements of the labor market for specialists. The formation of partnerships between the education system and the labor market contributes to an increase in the efficiency of the educational process, the successful employment of university graduates, gives greater stability to the system of knowledge generation and transfer, and ensures their diffusion.

The results of the study showed the increasing relevance of the development of trilateral integration in the educational environment and the need to intensify these projects.

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