MODERNIZATION OF THE PRINCIPAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM "STATE FOREST MANAGEMENT AND FOREST COMPLEX TECHNOLOGIES"
Graduates of engineering degree programs do not fully realize their opportunities and do not possess the necessary skills to implement their individual projects in forest complex. There are several unsolved tasks in the sphere of higher education that complicate the search of the solution to this problem. Among these tasks are the ones connected with learning environment of a higher educational institution, problems with student's motivation and goal-setting, as well as training of a specialist in the conditions of strong formalization of educational process. Higher Educational Institutions should solve this problem by modernization of the functioning educational programs, taking into account modern requirements and conditions. The paper describes the structure of the practice-oriented Principal educational program «State forest management and forest complex technologies» for a degree program 35.03.02 «Technology of forest harvesting and wood processing industries» (bachelor degree). The program provides training of a graduate with the level of competence that allows him to adapt to the forest complex industrial process. This level of education also enables a graduate to fulfill his professional potential at different types of enterprises of all forms of ownership. Training of a student according to the developed Program includes forming a theoretical base and skills of its application during practical works connected with the future profession. In general, the Educational Program is based on a complex of disciplines, combining fundamental knowledge of forest industry complex functioning with the experience of realization of practical tasks. This combination provides multi-sided and complex character of the educational program as well as unity of educational, practical and research process. The mentioned approach allows a student to form the skills of analyzing the industrial processes with account to real experience, using modern methodology and a combination of theoretical and applicable aspects in the educational process.