PREPARATION OF PHD STUDENTS FOR PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
The course «Pedagogy of Higher Education» in English has been developed and implemented in Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) to prepare PhD students for pedagogical activity in higher education in accordance with the requirements of Professional Standard «Instructor of Vocational Training, Higher Education and Professional Development» and FSES of HE of the 3<sup>rd</sup> level. The course is practice oriented. The aim of the course is to design educational resources for using during PhD student pedagogical internship. The course priority is engineering education. The principle requirements to educational resources are the use of PhD student's research results and application ofproblem-based teaching methods. The course structure and content, and the results of the course mastering by Skoltech PhD students in 2016 are presented in the paper. Basing on the experience ofthe course «Pedagogy ofHigher Education» implementation the course «Practical Pedagogy ofHigher Education» has been developed in Russian for on-line delivering in Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2017.