THE FORMATION OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Abstract

Human development is the basis of social progress in the modern world. University education has an important role in the formation of human capital. The form of human capital has tangible and intangible investments. Intangible investment is higher education. The aim of the article is to show the formation of the human capital in university education. The modern university is a dynamic category, aimed at training competent mobile specialists ready to continuous self-education, self-improvement and self-development. New educational environment determines unified laws in management of industrial enterprises, businesses, and educational institutions. Modern university educational process implies certain freedom of students and teachers in selection of training methods, forms of monitoring and evaluation of competencies, as well as the choice of tasks for independent work, enhancing the development of students’ competencies, which are formed individually. This creates difficulty in assessing the formation of competences, which can be made based on the results of the rating, examinations and results of online exams on the studied discipline, as well as by forming a portfolio that reflects the qualitative aspect of the assessment of a student’s progress.