PROBLEMS OF MORAL AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This article deals with problems of moral and spiritual development of technical university students. The main task of a higher school is to prepare the students for a future creative work. To do this, it is neces­ sary to clearly define what innovations should be introduced into educational process, as it causes the need to improve the entire system of educational and research activities. The importance of this problem is especially increasing with adoption of the State Program for the Development of Education in the Republic of Kazakh­ stan for 2011-2020. University staff and the students need to solve three major sets of tasks: 1. Stable tasks of social order (long-term). 2. New and updated tasks 3. Tasks of improving teaching and research activities by development ofpedagogical skills. These tasks also include the restructuring of student activities on the basis of its individualization, creative activity and independence. The base for solving these sets of tasks consists of three main components of higher education:
- fundamentalization and continuity of education;
- reliability of professional training;
- scientific, moral and ideological culture of an intelligent person.
The complex of stable tasks includes the following:
- improvement of educational, scientific, and research activities of teachers and students;
- the steady development of ideological and educational work on the basis of a national policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- development of students ’ interest for future professional work;
- intensification of independent search work, development of skills and acquiring knowledge;
- formation of an active life position of students as well as their dignity, commitment and discipline by hard work;
- formation and development of active irreconcilability towards a hostile ideology and any manifestation of antisocial actions.

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