Introduction. The negative dynamics of the reduction in the total number of children and the increase in their incidence in the world and federal space require the solution of problems to preserve the health of the child population within the framework of the education system. Education is the only system of public education, where almost the entire child population is covered for a long time. Despite the many studies and aspects of the activities of educational organisations in the field of students’ health preservation, there is no need to talk about the large-scale effectiveness of this activity.

Aim. The aim of the study is to reveal the conceptual framework of the activities of educational organisations for the protection of students’ health in the context of the theory of quality management, based on the integration of existing experience, its rational organisation and management.

Methodology and research methods. The methodological basis for the construction of the concept was the process and system approaches. The application of these approaches made it possible to substantiate the proposed 1) targets for the activities of educational organisations in the field of students’ health preservation; 2) structural transformations within the educational organisation; 3) principles and requirements for the management process. The experimental search base of the study involved 14 general educational organisations and organisations of secondary vocational education of the Ural region, the total number of participants – 7,210. The authors used the general scientific methods of generalisation, comparison, synthesis and analysis to carry out an interdisciplinary analytical review of the problem field of the study.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the implementation of the concept was carried out according to the authors’ system of criteria, which corresponds to the structure of the components of the quality of health care activities (quality of conditions, quality of processes and quality of results). To confirm the reliability of the results of the study, student’s t-criterion was used; to identify dependencies, the authors applied the method of correlation analysis (according to Pearson).

Results and scientific novelty. In the course of the study, the authors resolved the contradiction between the needs of society and man in achieving the effectiveness of the activities of educational organisations to preserve the health of students and the possibilities of the education system to ensure the implementation of these needs, since the conceptual provisions of the activities of educational organisations in health care in the context of the theory of quality management have not been developed. At the same time, the issues of organisation and management of this activity have been resolved. The scientific novelty of the study is the developed and tested concept: 1) the target and result of health protection activities is the formation and level of readiness of students to maintain health; 2) the management of the activities of educational organisations in health care is based on the theory of quality management, which requires the implementation of the ideas of the process approach and reflected in the authors’ management principles; 3) the level of organisation of health activities depends on the degree of structuring of its main directions; this requires the creation of a specialised division at the expense of the internal resources of the educational organisation – the health service; 4) the main objects of management are the quality of conditions, the quality of processes and the quality of the results of health care activities, which have become the basis of the system of criteria for its comprehensive assessment; 5) the effectiveness of the implementation of the concept depends on ensuring that the needs of the main actors in health care are constantly taken into account, its continuous improvement with the leading role of management, orientation to the key goal the formation of students’ readiness to maintain health, and the inclusion of all participants of the educational process in health protection.

Practical significance. The application of the ideas of the concept can become the basis for the innovative development of the activities of educational organisations in the field of students’ health preservation, and can determine the directions for solving fundamental and applied problems of this type of educational activity.

Introduction. Non-formal education is gaining a new impetus in the establishment of a sustainable knowledge society. The article reveals major concerns of non-formal education as an element of life-long learning and adult education policies as well as its effective implementation into the national educational mainstream.

Aim. The aim of the research is to conduct a detailed overview of various current studies, exemplifying the international experience in non-formal education and the case-studies of its adoption along with the mechanisms for its validation in different countries.

Methodology and research methods. The work was based on the methodology of comparative analysis and qualitative content analysis of official UNESCO, CEDEFOP, etc. international statistical and analytical reports, academic and empirical studies. An analytical review shows policy changes towards the development of non-formal education as well as an international and available in individual countries experience of its studying and implementation.

Results. Based on the compatibility scopes principle, three levels of analysis of non-formal education (macro-level/global, meso-level/institutional, micro-level/personal) were identified so that the key issues and trends in its development could be pinpointed at every stage. The conducted research leads to the conclusion that non-formal education practices are acquiring institutional forms. The level of non-formal education development in different countries varies. However, there are general trends towards solving a number of similar social problems by means of non-formal education, such as bridging the supply and demand for competencies in the labour market, social inclusion of different segments of the population, and others.

Scientific novelty and practical significance. The novelty of this study is seen in the resource capacity of non-formal education, the potential of its implementation for the vocational re-skilling, upskilling and further training of various socio-demographic groups, its global development trends and prospects. The practical significance lies in the application of mechanisms for recognising non-formal education outcomes. The highlighted trends and the best international experience can provide non-formal education integration into the educational mainstream, create experimental learning platforms and accelerate practical educational policy measures.

Introduction. In accordance with the Bucharest Declaration of Ethical Values and Principles of Higher Education (2004), modern universities cannot be considered only as scientific and technical “factories” in isolation from values and ethical norms. In accordance with their mission in society, they should “contribute in every possible way to the establishment and inculcation of the highest moral standards”.

In this article, the problem of training future government and municipal employees in the Russian universities of the country is actualised based on the analysis of the research results of their ethical attitudes in order to indirectly assess the effectiveness of anti-corruption training of students of specialised educational programmes in the areas of “Government and Municipal Administration” and “Law”.

Aim. The present empirical study aimed to identify the ethical attitudes of future officials in comparison with future entrepreneurs, as well as with the employees of commercial companies and government officials.

Methodology and research methods. The authors conducted an online research. The research involved 874 people. The main test sample (134 students) consisted of two groups: students of the speciality “Government and Municipal Administration” and “Law” (70 people), and students of business education programmes (64 people). The background sample consisted of the government and municipal employees (39.0% of the total sample) and the employees of commercial companies (36.5%), as well as the representatives of NGOs (6.8%). In the course of a comparative study, using the questionnaire “Moral Views (Amoralism)-2” by E. A. Bulgakova, and the scale of the “Dark Future” by Z. Zalessky, the authors tested the hypothesis on the samples of future officials and future business representatives. The tested hypothesis was based on some works of foreign authors and consisted of the fact that future Russian entrepreneurs were expected to have a higher degree of relativism (than future officials), supporting personal moral standards and rejecting universal moral principles.

Results. The tested hypothesis was not confirmed by the research results. Compared to future entrepreneurs, future officials are significantly more likely to justify the act of appropriation, deception due to omissions, and revenge within the law. Future officials turned out to have higher indicators on the scales of cynicism, aggressiveness and hostility than students in the field of business education. In addition, future civil servants have more uncertainty about whether they will be able to take place in life, fears about possible collisions with life crises and difficulties, as well as anxiety for their future. Existing university ethics training programmes often only strengthen relativistic views and form deviant behaviour in the future.

Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the fact that the authors carried out theoretical analysis and empirical research, which consisted in the study of ethical attitudes among the representatives of two professional groups.

Practical significance. As part of the development of training programmes, it is advisable to increase the emphasis on structurally mature ethical attitudes of professionals, especially state and municipal employees.

Introduction. The relevance of the research topic is due to the importance of the role of a class teacher in international educational practice. At the present stage, the institution of class leadership exists in the territory of the post-Soviet space, in China, France and a number of other countries. In the United States, a special structure has been formed – the dean’s office, which deals with issues of education. In many countries, there are positions of an educator, who is freed from educational work, attached to classes, as well as a mentor, tutor, who performs the function of the class teacher. In conditions of political tension, the activity of the class teacher acquires a leading character, creating the basis for the consolidation of society, ensuring national security on the basis of national and universal values. The class teacher provides pedagogical support for the educational process, cooperation with all participants in educational relations, is a key person in education. The personal development of students and the effectiveness of the educational system of the school largely depend on the activities of the class teacher. The ambiguity and multifunctionality of the activity of the class teacher require an objective evaluation of his/her work. The evaluation of the effectiveness of the educational activities of the class teacher is an integral part of diagnosing the quality of educational activities at school. In this regard, there is the need to develop a model for evaluating the effectiveness of the educational activities of the class teacher and the possibility of its implementation in the conditions of an educational organisation.

Aim. The aim of the study is the theoretical and methodological substantiation, development and testing of a model for evaluating the effectiveness of the class teacher.

Methodology and research methods. The study was based on the methodology of personality-oriented, system-activity, integrative, criteria-level, acmeological, competency-based and integrated approaches. Theoretical methods (theoretical analysis, generalisation and systematisation, modelling), empirical methods (questionnaires, the method of expert evaluations) were used as research methods. The study was carried out in 5 educational institutions of the Nizhny Novgorod region, which are the bases for the training of future teachers and class teachers of the Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod).

Results. As a result, a structural-functional model for evaluating the effectiveness of the class teacher’s educational activities was developed and substantiated as a way of comprehensive diagnostics of his/her professional activities, improving the quality of interaction with all participants in educational relations. The model is presented in the unity of the target, content, procedural-organisational and result-evaluative components. The results of testing the developed model for evaluating the effectiveness of the class teacher are presented.

Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty consists in the development of a structural and functional model of a complex-differentiated expert evaluation of the effectiveness of the class teacher, reflecting the multidimensionality of his/her activities and including value-targets, an integrative criteria matrix, evaluation procedure, diagnostic tools, evaluation trajectories and technology of their construction, a mechanism for calculating the results that determine the effectiveness of the educational activities of the class teacher. The designed expert evaluation model forms the basis for the development of a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of the class teacher.

Practical significance. The designed model for evaluating the effectiveness of the class teacher’s educational activities can be used in the practice of educational organisations to develop a system for encouraging the activities of the class teacher, supporting his/her professional growth, creating individual professional development trajectories, analytical conclusions and examinations.

Introduction. In 2020, the first two weeks of the enforced transformation of all the levels of school education, which was initiated as one of the measures against the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), revealed a range of issues hampering the appropriate distance education. The absence of the methodological basis for conducting online classes in the Kazakh pedagogical community defined the need to study and enhance forms and technologies that would be efficient to use to interact with students during the transition of the national education system to distance education.

Aim. The aim of this research lies in defining efficient methods for distance teaching of computer science in the Kazakh secondary school students in terms of ensuring the maintenance of the quality of knowledge and the academic progress of students at the sufficient level corresponding to that of the traditional in-person education.

Methodology and research methods. A total of five educators and 320 students of three Kazakh schools took part in the study. At the moment of the experiment, the students were aged 12 to 18 years old. The participants were divided into seven groups according to the educational level (5th–11th forms) in order to make it more convenient to trace qualitative changes in the academic progress depending on the selected method for distance teaching of computer science. The authors conducted three control evaluations of the quality of knowledge in each of the 320 participants. The t-test for unpaired samples for every group was conducted to prove the statistical certainty of the calculated average reference values, which were required to confirm the viability of the conducted research. The analysis of the data obtained at the concluding stage of the experiment allowed to compare them with the reference values calculated at the preliminary stage of the research in question. For the comparison, The authors applied the Mann–Whitney U test for independent samples.

Results. The preliminary analysis of the quality of knowledge related to the discipline of computer science in the participants revealed generally high and average level of both acquisition of theoretical information and development of the subject-related skills, which was registered based of the results of in-person education. The leading experience of the specialists composing the authors’ initiative research group allowed developing a structural scheme for an online lesson. The lessons applying this scheme were conducted up to the end of the academic quarter. By conducting the Mann–Whitney U test, we discovered that the obtained average values of the quality of teaching computer science to the participants statistically increased (I group – Uemp = 6.49 (p ≤ 0.05), II group – Uemp = 7.46 (p ≤ 0.05), III group – Uemp = 6.05 (p ≤ 0.01), IV group – Uemp = 6.71 (p ≤ 0.05), V group – Uemp = 6.91 (p ≤ 0.01), VI group – Uemp = 6.65 (p ≤ 0.05), VII group – Uemp = 6.21 (p ≤ 0.05)). Despite temporary fall in the efficiency of teaching computer science registered during the transition to the distance model, it was managed to achieve the level of academic progress and acquisition of knowledge corresponding to that of in-person education.

Scientific novelty. TThe significance of the collected and analysed data was statistically proved. The data confirmed the efficiency of the use of defined and adapted approaches and teaching techniques, which were able to compensate the absence of traditional in-person lessons, while preventing the fall in the academic progress and the quality of knowledge in students.

Practical significance. The obtained results evidence the success of the arrangements aimed at the enhancement of the methods for distance teaching of computer science in the Kazakh secondary school students during the transition to distance education enforced due to the pandemic.

Introduction. The study of the basic characteristics of the sociocultural identity of a modern student as value and semantic foundations of personal development is relevant due to the cultural and moral transformations of modern society and the practical need to change the system of education in higher education.

Aim. The current research aims to reveal the sociocultural characteristics by which a modern student describes himself/herself when compared with a group and to identify groups, communities, which is the subject of identification for the student.

Methodology and research methods. The authors used a quantitative approach to the collection and analysis of the data obtained. This made it possible to cover a large sample and obtain statistically reliable results. The theoretical methods of research were historiographical and comparative types of analysis (allowed to formulate the initial provisions of the study); conceptual and terminological analysis of philosophical, psychological, psychological-pedagogical, socio-psychological literature (used to describe the categorical field of the problem); systematisation and conceptualisation of scientific ideas. The following empirical methods were applied: questionnaires, testing. Data processing methods: methods of mathematical statistics (descriptive statistics, Student’s T-test, one-factor analysis of variance).

Results. The article contains the results of an empirical study of the sociocultural identity of students. The authors defined the foundations of the ideas of modern youth about themselves. In particular, students describe themselves through belonging to family, profession, gender and national groups. The authors identified the groups with which the respondents identify themselves: this is a family and a circle of friends. Moreover, the authors revealed that the socio-cultural identity of students has gender, age differences, and depends on the direction of training at the university. The role of the presented results in the modern international scientific discourse was analysed.

Scientific novelty. The authors conceptualised the concept of sociocultural identity and described the mechanisms of its formation; identified the main components in the structure of sociocultural identity of young people; established gender, age and educational differences in the characteristics of sociocultural identity of students; identified dominant groups in the process of identification of a young person with a high degree of significance.

Practical significance. The results of the study can be used as a spiritual and moral, value-oriented basis of the education programme in higher education.

Introduction. The relevance of the problem of the article is determined by the need to improve approaches to the professional adaptation of university students in the conditions of rapid changes in the world of work and professions. The subject of the study is various forms of professional adaptation of students.

Aim. The present research aims to identify the forms of university students’ professional adaptation, which have the greatest potential for adapting students to the future profession. The hypothesis of the study was the assumption that one of the new and effective forms of professional adaptation of students at the university can be their project activities.

Methodology and research methods. The research methodology was mainly based on the community-based and activity-based approaches. The empirical basis of the article is the results of the research on the adaptation of students in Russian universities (2022 May–June). The conducted research was implemented using the methods of online survey, focus group, semi-formalised interview.

Results. The main results of the study are the following: characteristics of the forms of professional adaptation of students at the university, the assessment of its main background factors, as well as the development by students of the norms of the academic environment as a predictor of mastering work and professional ethics, the problems of implementing project activities as a new form of adaptation to the profession. The scope of application of the research results is the practice of university project training and the development of programmes for professional students’ adaptation.

In conclusion, project-based learning is considered as one of the most promising forms of students’ professional adaptation, the potential of which is not fully used. An important conclusion of the authors is that there is the need to focus student projects on an external customer in order to create a situation of students’ real immersion in the professional environment.

Scientific novelty. The authors considered new forms of professional adaptation of students at the university and justified the significance of the revealed adaptation forms.

Practical significance. The practical significance of the article is the possibility of using the results and conclusions of the study in the elaboration of university adaptation programmes for students and the improvement of their professional adaptation practices.