AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT OF DEPARTMENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE, WHICH ARE GRADUATES OF THE SPECIALTY 231 “SOCIAL WORK”

Abstract

The article considers the problem of improving the quality of higher education through the development of a strategy for the development of the department of higher education in Ukraine, which is a graduation for the specialty 231 Social Work. It is determined that the modernization of higher education institutions is a complex task of today and requires a comprehensive view of the transformation process, but at the same time specific actions in various areas. Important attention is paid to the analysis of the resource approach, according to which to determine the development of the graduating department as a structural unit of free economic resources, it is necessary to identify resources that can be used to overcome current problems, and identify opportunities that can be used in the future. Among the most important areas are the following: education, teaching, activities of the scientific society of students, volunteer service, employment of students, information activities of the institution and department, the activities of the student's social and psychological service. All these aspects are considered in terms of active involvement of the main stakeholders of the educational process - the guarantor of OP and management of higher education, research and teaching staff, applicants, graduates, external partners (employers, experts, practitioners), with whom relations are stable and permanent. Close cooperation between these key stakeholders is an important condition for the development of free economic education and the educational program that is being implemented. In addition, attention is paid to the activation of higher education as important participants in the internal quality assurance system of higher education: from informing about opportunities to participate in these processes and ending with the creation of separate units (volunteer service, student socio-psychological service) with students. Particular attention is paid to the problem of introducing interdisciplinary educational (scientific) programs for the training of future specialists in social work with expanded professional competencies on the border of several fields of knowledge, specialties.