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The realities of the modern world are marked by rapid changes, which bring dissonance to the process of social development and human existence, depriving him of clearly defined guidelines and priorities. The sociocultural context of the epoch, based on changing, liquid versions of modernity, presents a series of challenges to a person and the social institutions, including education, he has created. Education is responsible not only for finding adequate answers to the civilization challenges of the epoch, but also for outlining the further directions of its development. The methodological ideas of the concept of nomadism allow to consider education as a complex sociocultural formation, which is in the state of constant change and is marked by openness, not linearity, the ability to acquire new outlines and characteristics. The understanding of education, which is transformative and humanistic in nature, pluralistic in content, which responds to sociocultural changes flexibly and proactively and updates the forms of training organization has been presented. It is stated that the development of education should be based on the priority of the new knowledge creation instead of the ready information consumption, should focus on the ability to consider problems comprehensively and contextually and to outline new ones in familiar to a person situations, should be carried out by engaging in educational activities of the personal experience and life practices of learning subjects, to promote their ability to self-education and self-transformation in order to realize their own life potential.

The study reveals the theoretical and practical approaches of developing training programs for Remotely Piloted Aircraft operators in the sphere of border surveillance of the state border protection agencies of the European Union and Ukraine using multicriteria optimization to find required rational parameters. The results of the study within the educational grant of Frontex Agency conducted by the team of experts from the Border Guard Services of Ukraine and EU countries were used to enhance the training program of air reconnaissance units of border protection bodies at the Main Training Centre of the Border Guard Service of Ukraine based on the best EU practices, in order to ensure obtaining of knowledge and practical skills by personnel of the border guard Remotely Piloted Aircraft external crews, which will increase the level of interoperability and professional competence of border guards while conducting border surveillance tasks.

The article reveals ESP distance learning course for foreign language training of the law-enforcement agencies personnel. Topics and stages of ESP online language learning course have been considered. The training of personnel of border security units is an integral part of the system of ensuring Integrated Border Management; it is necessary to provide coherence of units for the skillful organization of their operational and service activity. The authors focus particular attention on the structural and logical scheme of ESP distance learning course according to the separate modules. The purpose of the article is to reveal developed the ESP online course in the framework of border guards training in Ukraine. The purpose set required performing a thorough needs analysis of the target audience (border guard officers serving at the border). It has been determined that it is more efficient for border guards to study the English language without leaving their professional duties at the border. The results of the development and implementation of the English language distance learning course for foreign language training of the Border Guard Agency personnel allowed us to conclude that it is necessary and effective for border guards to obtain professional language skills for performing everyday tasks, organizing operational and service activity and during border control at checkpoints across the state border. The teacher during ESP online course acts as a catalyst for communication, provides feedback, takes into account a variety of learning styles, and pays considerable attention to the development of not only intellectual but also moral qualities of border guards. The developed online ESP course for Border Guard Agency personnel effectively functions in the system of professional training, providing an opportunity for border guards at the workplace without interrupting their main activity to improve their level of professional English proficiency. The course can be implemented in other law-enforcement educational institutions for independent learning of personnel in order to form foreign language competence, especially for officers who plan to participate in joint international programs and trainings.

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