Reform of higher education and problems of forming the physical culture of a competitive person

The article is devoted to the problem of raising a physically healthy student generation. Physical culture is viewed by the author is the necessary condition for the development of personality traits of a future specialist, the characteristic of a competitive person possessing an advantage in the labor market. The author addresses the issue of physical education in connection with the problem of reforming educational space, which also concerns higher education. The potential of psycho-physical traits of students is decreased under the influence of a complex of socially-conditioned factors and conditions, social contradictions, imperfection of the system of upbringing, education, culture, science, health- improvement and prophylactics among children, pupils and students. The work presents the strategy of RSCU Department of physical education and sport which is aimed at forming physically healthy, highly moral and socially active specialists in demand by society and state.