Vocational High School has its own charm for prospective students. Graduates have ready-to-work capability based on the skills needed in the workplace. Decision Making System using Fuzzy Multiple Attribute Decision Making with Weighted Product method as the best vocational high school determinant method is an interactive computer-based system that can help decision makers to find the best alternative based on predetermined criteria. In this case the intended alternative is to determine the best vocational high school based on the criteria by finding the weight value for each attribute. The criteria needed in decision making namely facility, accreditation, quality, student (non-academic achievement), cost, human resources teacher.

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Purpose of Study: The article is devoted to the study of the organization of educational activities of volunteers as a social and educational project. It is established that the strategic goal of the new generation of Federal-state educational standards is the formation of graduates ' competences. A framework of competence approach helps to gradually transfer the student from learning activities to his future professional activities. In this article, the authors identify the activities of volunteers as one of the ways to adapt students to real working conditions. The article reveals the essence of volunteer activity, which allows to acquire new and improve existing competencies as a social and educational project. In the Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University named after KozmaMinin, the development of volunteer activities proceeds through the work of The center "territory of opportunities", implemented within the framework of the project "Social and educational environment", in which a sufficient number of stakeholders are involved, providing students with the opportunity for further employment. The article also highlights the activities carried out by the Center, for which volunteer students are offered a lot of special courses (social design, robotics, ZD-modeling). On the basis of the revealed facts, the positive effect of volunteer activity for all participants of this process is established. Methodology: The paper presents an analysis of employed student volunteers. As practice shows, students engaged in volunteer activities, quickly enough to get a job in the profession, unlike students who do not have the experience of volunteering. 49% of volunteers work on a permanent or partial basis, while students without volunteer experience employ only one in three students (33%) [Pavlov, Kindaev, Vinnikova, & Kuznetsova, (2016)]. In order to identify the positive impact of this activity on the development of students as professionals, we have shown the activities Of the center "territory of opportunities", which operates in the Nizhny Novgorod state pedagogical University named after KozmaMinin. Results: Results showed ha students engaged in volunteer activities are more satisfied with their leisure time compared to ordinary students. In addition, the study showed that those students who have devoted their time to participate in volunteer activities are employed much faster than students who have not engaged in volunteering. Implications/Applications: The higher education institutions should make every effort to improve the conditions in which volunteer activities are carried out and offer ample opportunities for the development of the student's personality because students can easily employ both in the learning process and after graduating from high school.

The article shows that the quality of life of the population is closely related to the level of economic development (which clearly demonstrates the tendency to its subsidence during the crisis period). The growing interest in the topic of quality of life on the part of authorities, the scientific community and the population, its measurement, its connection with crisis phenomena and management determines its irreducible relevance. Crisis phenomena to a large extent "undermine" the quality of life of the population (especially its most vulnerable categories), creating not only "material holes" in its provision, but also depriving confidence in the future, initiating distrust of the political elite. They lead to outbursts of social discontent, "shake" the social system as a whole, including all spheres of human life. Knowing the laws governing the effects of crisis on the socioeconomic structures of individual territories will allow us to quickly and timely provide some protection for the quality of life of the population in an unstable economic environment.

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