PRACTICAL TRAINING FEATURES OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN GEODESY IN MODERN CONDITIONS OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

The article reveals the practical training features of future specialists in geodesy in modern conditions of university education and updates the issue of future specialists’ training which combines the principles of both a knowledge-oriented and a practice-oriented paradigm. Its combination makes it possible to preserve the fundamentality of higher education in reliance on the accumulation of experience and practical activities and form a professionally mobile specialist. The specifics of the practical component within the professional training of the students majoring in Geodesy and Land Management at the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education in the conditions of university education are characterized, which shows that future specialist training is organized in various forms of productive and creative search activity. It has been found that the content of the practical component of professional training ensures the professional mobility formation, as well as the mastery of significant professional competences, aimed at students’ performance of a set of the following tasks: acquisition of skills and primary practical skills of working with analog geodetic devices, strengthening of the practical and professional orientation of educational process, consolidation of integrated geodetic knowledge, performance of a set of field geodetic works, methods and rules of using maps in solving scientific and practical professional problems (educational practice during the 1st year); comprehensive mastery of geodetic methods for solving various applied tasks, study of geodetic support for the implementation of works in land management and construction, acquisition of practically oriented knowledge of the structure, principles of work, alignment, skills of working with modern geodetic devices, mastering the technique of geodetic measurements and constructions, new geodetic techniques in production conditions (educational practice in geodesy); gaining experience in professional activities, gaining experience in conducting topographical and geodetic works and practical skills in performing design and research works; collection, study and evaluation of economic, statistical, planning and cartographic and other materials; establishment of borders on the territory; geodetic surveying and correction of land use and land ownership plans, implementation of land management and land cadastral works (production practice); competence coordination with an order for a specialist, the formation of integrated knowledge acquired in the process of studying the disciplines of a professional direction, the acquisition of skills for performing independent research, the development of professional competencies related to the solution of applied problems in the fields of land management, geodesy, geoinformatics, preparation for the performance of qualification work (pre-diploma practice). It has been proven that future geologists, thanks to the transition from one basic form of activity to another, receive more developed practical skills in the application of educational and scientific information, implementation of means of quasi-professional and educational-professional activities, and acquire real professional experience, receiving opportunities for natural and effective entry into the profession.