Scientific and methodological competence of a university teacher as a component of human capital

The article actualizes the issue of the necessity to consider the scientific and methodological competence of university teachers as one of the most important components of the formation and development of human capital of higher-level educational institutions. Based on the functional approach, the authors analyze its structure as a special type of professional competence. In relation to the components of the human capital of the individual, five elements have been identified, corresponding to the main types of scientific and methodological activities of a university teacher at the present stage: motivational, planning-prognostic, subject-activity, social-orientation and evaluative-reflective. It is emphasized that the real competence of a higher school teacher in the scientific and methodological sphere is provided by structural relationships of the above elements, which forms the intellectual capital and the capital of experience of professional and pedagogical activity of a university teacher's personality. Conclusion dwells upon the fact that the result of the formation of scientific and methodological competence among the teaching staff in this case becomes pedagogically appropriate and competent organization of the educational process in the university as an economic product.