The article analyses the results of an opinion survey of first-year students of the Chemistry and metallurgy department of the Mining University. The attention was concentrated on their reasons for entering the university, factors affecting their choice, academic activities and the studying conditions contentment, their views on future jobs and employment possibilities. Some recommendations for attracting attention of a greater number of potential applicants were given.
The article is devoted to quality management problems in higher education sphere. The author develops an integrated approach to understanding and measuring of education process quality. Different approaches to estimation of main directions of quality management of educational services are determined and summarized in the article for providing competitiveness in higher education area in Russia.
Organization is one of phenomena of our time, whereas various social organizations and intensive organizational activity have great influence on many historical processes and events. Particular attention is paid to the technologies of organizational management being a process regulator that allows optimizing organization management, raising its productiveness and improving the efficiency of organizational resources usage.
Civilization basis, typical features and work ethics evolution principles in the Russian household culture have been highlighted. The special attention was given to the issues of cultural traditions formation at different national-economical environments. Distinctive features of Russian State Authority in household activity organization such as social paternalism, personification and authoritarianism have been determined.
New educational strategy of higher school formation is linked on the one hand to a high educational status of future specialists, on the other hand to the development of a human personality, to the possibility of his identification with large social formation in the process of patriotic upbringing.
This article considers theoretical and methodological problems of corruption in public administration, presents the formulation of the object and subject of the study. It reveals socio-economic, political, ideological and moral prerequisites for the sustainability of corruption as a socio-political phenomenon, areas and forms of its manifestation. Special attention is paid to the study of this phenomenon in the context of modernization of modern Russian society. The possibilities of modeling corruption based on the generalization of international experience of anti-corruption activities are also considered. The article substantiates the main directions of activities of government bodies and public institutions aimed at reducing and eradicating the causes that give rise to corruption.