REGULATORY ELEMENTS OF MODERNIZATION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN PROVIDING ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

In Ukraine, as part of the implementation of the higher education system, the training of students in higher education institutions is carried out on the basis of the List of Fields of Knowledge and Specialties in which university students are trained. This document is a framework regulatory document and over time has been amended and supplemented in response to the current challenges of the modern higher education system. Currently, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has prepared for public discussion a draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On Approval of the List of Fields of Knowledge and Specialties for Training of Higher Education Students”. The structure and number of the fields of knowledge and specialties is close to the list of fields of the International Standard Classification of Education; and the document is another step towards the transition to common statistical standards and classification systems to harmonize and ensure the comparability of government statistics with such international standards and recommendations as the UN international standard classification systems. The article analyzes the regulatory elements of the modernization of interdisciplinary relations in the system of higher education using the example of economic education in industry-specific higher education institutions by means of a comparative analysis. The article is based on the interdisciplinary links of economic subjects with the philosophy and humanities and special technical subjects taught in industry-specific universities. In the context of this direction, the author’s view on the interdisciplinary relations of disciplines in educational and professional programs as a certain meaningful scientific environment, in the context of “smaller” and “wider” philosophical circles in terms of the actual state and with the aim of assessing further progressive development based on the potential state, is represented. The author's view of interdisciplinary relations through the philosophical circles of the scientific environment became the basis for the introduction of the idea of for mathematical calculations of quantitative and qualitative assessments of the level of interdisciplinarity using such mathematical apparatus as a Venn diagram, and using a Euler’s circle for the visual representation of certain interdisciplinary relations. Based on the results of the calculations and a developed actual model of interdisciplinary relations in the educational and professional program, it is proposed to further compare the model with the reference standard of the balanced model of the interdisciplinarity system in the process of meaningful construction of the educational program in the specialty as a scientific environment.