THE CONCEPT OF IMPROVING THE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE POLICY OF “SOFT POWER”

The purpose of the article is the development of conceptual approaches to the development of the national program for improvement of university training of foreign students within the policy of “soft power” taking into account current trends in global educational space. The analysis of foreign strategy of internationalization of university education, studying of experience of activity of the international organizations allowed us to reveal the most characteristic approaches to involvement of foreign students into the Russian Federation and also to define the directions of realization of the political and economic actions which are carried out by authorities in the sphere of expansion of export of educational services. We present the main results of our research in the form of the reasonable directions of support of export of educational services at federal, regional and university levels of management of education. The proposed model of a management system of university training of foreign students within the policy of “soft force” reflects interrelation of normative, legal, economic, infrastructure, social, socio-psychological, information and communicative, organizational and methodical instruments of influence and results of the expansion of export of educational services.

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