On introducing competence-building-based approach in education

The article analyses the issues of modern professional education and reveals the basic differences between academic education and holistic education, referred to as ''competence-building''. The article touches upon the Bologna Process and its implications in terms of student, faculty and educational advisor adaptation. The author dwells upon the principal competence constituents, and the optimization opportunities that the competence building approach offers for effective personnel management. Finally, the article substantiates that business training proves to be a highly efficient instrument of compensating for the shortcomings of modern professional education.