COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACH AS CONDITION OF IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF TRAINING OF STUDENTS

Modern society, based on innovation, requires institutions of vocational education training of competent professionals. Therefore questions the quality of graduates senior is crucial in terms of reforming education. The article provides a theoretical analysis of the definition of "competence", characterized competences. The concept of "competence" is revealed through the specific requirements, the mastery of which spetsialista prepare for professional work. Education based on competences, is based on the definition, development and demonstration of skills, knowledge, behaviors and attitudes required for a particular work. A key principle of this type of training is to focus on the results that are relevant to the scope of professional activity. It has been shown that learning based on competences are most effectively implemented in innovative educational process, which involves the use of active learning methods, creation of conditions for the formation of students' experience of self-help cognitive, communicative, organizational, ethical and other issues of professional activity; evaluation of the results achieved, ie assessment of competence of the student. It is concluded that the educational process is organized on the ideas of the competency approach contributes to the quality of education and training of competitive specialists with professional competence.