Competence-based curriculum as the means of students’ training for serving in the army by the faculty of military education

Training full-time university students as soldiers and sergeants for the mobilization reserve of the Armored Forces of the Russian Federation, at the Faculty of military training is an urgent task. The President of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation have put this task forward. However, the curriculum developed by the Ministry of Defense is not perfect. The paper considers the ways to improve the curriculum and the content of the subjects of military training. As a result, the changes to be made in the syllabuses of subjects “Methodical Training” and “Military Pedagogy and Psychology” were offered. For the first time the curriculum for military subjects is based on competence approach. Military professional competencies and their introduction into the syllabuses of subjects provide a framework for the creation and implementation of programmes of military training moving them to a higher level of quality the one that corresponds to the modern requirements of pedagogical science.