Innovation-Integrative Model of Pre-University Education Implemented in Sechenov University
The most important trend in the development of the world's leading universities is the provision of quality continuous training of specialists, from general education, through vocational to postgraduate. Early professionalization (career choice) meets the objective of the university to form a motivated contingent, thereby improving the quality of the work of the university. The article spells out the importance of pre-professional education in the system of the «school-university-clinic» educational continuum, describes the features of pre-university training and the main trends in the development of this system of continuing education. The authors note the key areas for such development, which make it possible to foresee changes in pre-university education. At the same time, the article provides an understanding of the impossibility of a universal approach to education even within the framework of one direction of the training profile. The authors further denote the need and importance of self-education for the comprehensive and dynamic development of a well-integrated personality, as well as of the realization that the future belongs to science and scientists. The implemented practical experience is represented by an innovation-integrative model of a single educational environment. The model can be applied in other educational organizations in designing an educational process to ensure the continuity and succession of general and vocational education.