COMPETENCE APPROACH IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM
The paper deals with the urgency of higher education modernization through realization of European system in Russian environment. In the course of this program execution many problems and contradictions arise which have to be thoroughly investigated. The concept competence can be interpreted in two ways: as expert knowledge or jurisdiction. Sometimes these meanings are identified and in some cases differentiated. Market relations development brings some changes into the system of higher education. The fact makes it more important as concerns responsibility of introducing different projects and changing constants in the systems having their own dialectics of development.