PRINCIPLES OF BUILDING A MODERN HIGHER AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION SYSTEM IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Nowadays, the new tasks set by the Law of Ukraine "On Higher Education" require the search for ways to improve educational process in higher education. Transition to the implementation of a new paradigm of higher education means updating all its aspects: content, forms of organization, methods and means of training, and most importantly, training of competitive employees. Currently, the educational process in higher educational institutions of Ukraine has become more complex in its tasks, more intensive in its content. It requires a deep pedagogical rethinking of the patterns of educational and professional activities, principles and methods of training and education, personality formation of the future specialist. This is determined by significant changes in the higher education system of Ukraine: the organizational structure is improved, new types of educational institutions appeared, a system of graduate training of specialists is implemented, etc., which was caused by increasing of the requirements for the training of specialists. The training of highly qualified specialists capable of creatively solving today's complex problems is considered one of the decisive levers for overcoming the economic crisis in Ukraine and bringing the economic complex to the level of highly developed countries of the world. This fully applies to higher agricultural education, which is intricately linked to social production, ensures reproduction of the state's production potential and is an important factor in increasing of labor productivity and ensuring the production of high-quality, competitive products. The necessity arises to increase the level of professional training of future specialists in the process of their graduate training. In this regard, the article examines the training of a future specialist with a higher agricultural education from the perspective of the achievements of pedagogical science.

Democratic processes in the state require the solution of new ones social requirements for higher education as the basis of socio-cultural formation of a personality.