The experience related to creation of postgraduate study in Academy of education workers’ upgrade qualifi cations and professional retraining, which last academic year celebrated its twentieth anniversary, is revealed in this paper. The reasonable statement that the postgraduate study created on the basis of additional professional pedagogical education institution, has specifics which needs to be considered at design of content, technologies and organizational forms of educational process, including in the conditions of existing Federal State Requirements is (FSR) submitted.

Some aspects related to the concept of eff ective cooperation between employers and Personnel Management School of Science based on “Economics and Organization Management” Chair of SamSTU are considered in this article. The results of sociological research related to labor market and higher education, which allowed the authors to determine the most popular in innovation economy forms of cooperation between enterprises and high education institution during the training of students in “Personnel Management” direction, are presented. Comparing the world development trends, requirements of employers and state requirements for young professionals the authors emphasize a number of key requirements for bachelors in this direction.

The article presents issues of additional professional education of teachers and ways of dealing with them. The author connects prospects of effective reform of additional professional education of teachers with its targeting on teachers’ professional growth through the search of new means of supporting the process. Online educational conference is considered as one of such means.

The activities of Moscow society of commercial education distribution for creation of educational institutions for different level specialist training in the field of trade and banking are analyzed in this paper. This society’s contribution to formation of economic education system in Russia at the end of XIX — the beginning of XX century has been studied in.