Education as a Resource for Development of the Commonwealth of Independent States

The article represents the analysis of modern integration processes in the field of education in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). As it is stated in the article, globalization, global transformation, and integration of countries actualize the problems of developing common approaches and strategies to improve the quality of education and to meet the new challenges of the developing post-industrial society based on knowledge, information, and innovations. The role of human capital is increasing under quite new conditions of cultural, social, economic, and technological development of the members of the CIS. One of the central ideas of the article is the problem of improving national systems of compulsory and professional education as the main resources to harmonize them due to the interests of the CIS and to increase the quality of the training of personnel, the development of their academic and socio-professional mobility of the population in these countries. The aim is to ensure the competitiveness of the national education systems of the CIS in the global education market. Cooperation in the field of pedagogical and educational sciences and teacher training has significantly intensified. The Russian language plays a special role in the integration processes in the CIS. The present-day tendencies and strategies of the development of the common CIS education space are characterized in the article