Expediency of appeal to the competency-based approach and competency model of the high school graduate

The present study focuses on the problem of education quality in the modern world: as the contemporary social order reflects the transformation of many countries, including Russia, from industrial to post-industrial, information society. Consequently, the requirements for a specialist and his professional training are changing. In modern market conditions, professionalism, professional experience, the foundations of which are laid in the university, are considered factors in the competitiveness of a young specialist. The article explores the problem of a competency-based approach to teaching, which was introduced not as a recommendation, but as a new paradigm, the observance of which is mandatory when training specialists in higher education (as well as secondary schools). The purpose of the article is to consider the essential characteristics, complexity, and versatility of the concept of competency, about which a great deal of information has been accumulated in both foreign and Russian scientific research, but neither here nor there knowledge of competence has been conceptualized...