The Main Directions of International Educational Integration: Potential Benefits and Risks of Reforming Professional Education

The purpose of this article is to reveal the influence of the main areas of international educational integration on the processes of reforming the national professional education. The paper presents the main areas of the international educational integration at the level of statutory regulation, at the level of the goals and mission of higher professional education, at the level of organizational-structural changes, at the level of quality assurance of professional education, at the training content and management levels. The authors also proved the competitive advantages and disadvantages of the Russian market of educational services, the benefits and risks of reforming professional education under the conditions of international educational integration, economic and social effects of teaching foreign students in Russian universities. The article contents may be used by departments of international cooperation of professional educational institutions in the development of mechanisms for integrating Russian professional schools into a single educational space, as well as in the development of courses and teaching and learning aids for university heads on the issue of reforming professional education in the context of the Bologna and Copenhagen processes.