ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE RUSSIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE RANEPA)
In the modern system of the higher education additional education takes the special institutional place. It answers challenges of society from sociocultural system and to social and economic trends of the emerging market. Additional professional education acts as an important factor of development of the human capital therefore its quality and orientation act as a relevant object of research. The sociological analysis of the working model of continuous professional education of the leading Russian university allowed to prove the potential of additional professional education in realization of public policy, to reveal the principles of creation of the educational system of higher education institution providing high quality of rendering educational services, their compliance to requirements of the market, to the purposes of innovative development of national economy, inquiries of potential customers (employers and workers). Realization in practical activities of the principles of continuity, individualization of education, internationalization of educational programs, use of new educational technologies in line with competence-based approach, allocation of the centers of superiority providing competitive educational services creation on their base of a methodical and organizational kernel of modern system of continuous formation of administrative staff provides to higher education institution leadership in branch and an education system. Authors defined the main kinds of additional professional programs as a result: «traditional» programs of vocational training, the program of vocational training (type «A» - advanced (advanced), «В» - basic (basic)), «masterful programs» of business education: MBA, MPA and similar to them, «network programs». The mechanism of assessment of quality of programs of additional professional education, their maintenance, procedures of an intermediate and final assessment are constantly improving with a support on the international experience and results of the scientific research conducted by higher education institution. The analysis of the existing model of additional professional education which developed in higher education institution showed that educational institutions of the higher education realize additional professional programs within additional activity in logic of the liberal model providing to higher education institutions autonomy and favorable conditions for creation of adaptive system of continuous professional education with means of additional professional education.