The article presents the results of a study of the strategy and prospects of territorial mobility of young people who have received higher education in the field of ecology at a regional university. A review of scientific literature and a statistical analysis of the opinions and judgments of environmental students of the last year of study at the bachelor’s program at the Agricultural University confirm the relevance of the research topic. They allow you to look at the prospects for the territorial mobility of environmental graduates, both from the point of view of their own targets, and from the point of view of their importance for the south of Russia and the capital regions of Russia. The study found that the vector of territorial mobility of environmental graduates is aimed at the capital regions of Russia and abroad. The expectations of young people are associated with higher job prospects on better conditions (high-paying and interesting work with real career opportunities) outside the Stavropol Territory and southern Russia.

The article presents the results of a study of the opinions of students and teachers of the southern region of Russia about the learning process in higher education programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. We carried out a comparative analysis of the quality of the implementation of educational programs in the assessments of participants in the process during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020) and its peak values (November-December 2020). The positive and negative consequences of transferring training to a distance learning format are formulated. Among the positive consequences are: the availability of training from anywhere; more flexible training, focused on the educational needs of students; new formats of social student life; more accessible communication with teachers. We analyzed the experience of the educational community presented in publications during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data obtained provide an understanding of the importance of the development and implementation of new organizational and methodological approaches for the effective response of higher education to external global challenges of our time.

This article presents the results of a study conducted by the authors from January to May 2022 on the territory of the Stavropol Territory; an analysis of the conducted in-depth interview is presented. The authors describe the main ways to achieve the goal of forming a tolerant attitude towards representatives of various ethnic and cultural groups, including familiarizing students with the peculiarities of the national culture of other peoples through various creative competitions, ethnographic seminars, organizing joint excursion trips to the most interesting places of one or another subject of our country. Brief results are presented that are specific and narrow for studying the study of the characteristics of marriage by students of educational organizations of the Stavropol Territory, which are of particular interest, since for historical reasons it intricately combines the original Russian culture, the Cossacks and the peculiarities of the life of various peoples both in Russia and neighboring countries. As the main culturally conditioned models, the researchers singled out the primordialist and constructivist approaches, which determine a different way of interpreting ethnicity as such and the possibility of building constructive social ties. The article notes that certain ethnocultural contradictions are present, but significantly greater risks in building interethnic interaction are not associated with real contradictions in culture, but with ethnic stereotypes that have developed at the level of cultural and informational space, which provoke members of society to implement conflict models of interaction. The authors describe the process of legal prevention of conflicts on interethnic grounds, through the actions of our state represented by law enforcement agencies that are implementing a program to prevent extremism and terrorism among young people.

The article presents the results of expert assessment of the importance of professional competencies for successful educational activity by the teachers of the regional system of secondary education. A theoretical review of the scientific literature on changes in general education and their impact on the professional activities of teachers, as well as the content of the current Russian professional teacher standard provided a methodological basis for the research tools of the current professional profile of the modern teacher. The expert survey and statistical data analysis procedures performed using SPSS software (version 23) allowed us to identify the latent factors that determine new important details of the professional profile of a secondary education teacher. The results of the study are the basis for the development of additional educational resources, professional development courses, internships in the system of supplementary secondary teacher education. Considering the requests of the professional teaching community, which faces staff shortages, it is possible to improve the quality and efficiency of educational organizations of the regional system of secondary education.

The article presents a theoretical model and empirical data of the study of the competency profile of the head of the university educational program. We developed a research strategy to study the importance of professional competencies that allow us to successfully implement and develop university-level educational programs. A brief review of publications in the subject area under study made it possible to describe the theoretical model of the competency profile of the head of the university educational program and to identify empirical indicators for the preparation of expert survey questions. The expert survey was attended by 55 people, representatives of the teaching staff who manage educational programs of higher education. The survey database was processed in the SPSS Statistics program (version 23). Assessment of the importance of relevant professional competencies of educational program managers allows us to identify areas of advanced training and training programs for this category of university employees. The results of the study contribute to the improvement of the university’s work, aimed at the development of relevant educational programs of higher education.