A study of regularities and conditions of mentorship functioning and development in the regional education system

The article describes special aspects and effectiveness of introducing mentorship in higher education. Based on the analysis of educational, methodological and scientific work in Buryat State University, we have developed the procedure and scheme for introducing a mentoring system. This system involves several forms of mentorship: mentor-curator, mentor-scientific supervisor, mentor-student (senior student), mentor-practitioner. Consequently, the following models of mentoring are proposed: 1) from school to university, 2) from university to production, 3) from production to career. It is expected that mentorship will improve student attendance, their current academic performance, presentation of graduate qualification works and employment. Mentorship can help to partially or completely overcome such problems of modern higher education as low motivation to study and self-development, disciplinary difficulties, unsatisfactory academic performance, lack of high-quality self-regulation among students, low awareness of career and educational opportunities, lack of conscious choice of future career, difficulties associated with the inability to combine work with the study, low general culture level, underdevelopment of meta-competencies.