Innovative, interactive and linguistic determinants of international integration of Russian higher education mining

Russian industry embarking on an innovative development path reflects world trends of international cooperation among higher education institutions dealing with engineering staff training and integration of higher technical education. Russia's joining the Bologna Process requires that higher schools prepare graduates, on the one hand, for an immediate start of professional activity at enterprises and, on the other, to ensure their mobility on the global labor market. At the same time, Russian higher education institutions should be capable of training engineers from foreign countries, attaining the international level of skills training. The training of mining engineers in Russian technical universities cannot stand apart from the international integration of the educational process. The generality of technological, production and administrative processes of the mining industry in different countries makes the international integration of the higher education of mining engineers in Russia especially topical. However, the low standing of Russian technical universities in the world ratings, the limited acknowledgment of Russian diplomas abroad, insufficient study motivation of students and poor foreign language skills all serve to constrain the process of international integration of Russian higher mining education. The response to the challenges placed by globalization of the higher education system and the compelling need for the international expansion of Russian higher schools should become innovative, interactive and language determinants of this process. They represent the conditions that determine the prospects for integration of mining engineers' higher training in the international economic community. The given determinants should be implemented at the level of specific higher education establishments by using innovative pedagogical technologies, such as binary lectures, role-plays, brainstorming, case study, and project training in the educational process.