COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EXPECTATIONS FROM TUTOR COMPETENCIES OF STUDENTS OF ECONOMICS AND PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The article presents results of research devoted to the study of the expectations of students of economics and pedagogical universities from the competencies of a tutor. The research is conducted on the basis of two leading universities in the country—the Moscow Pedagogical State University and the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. As the results of the survey show, the main need for students of an economics university is for a tutor to have specialized education in the supervised field for professional advice on the subjects studied, guidance in choosing special courses, analytics and research in the field of new knowledge and technologies, which is not fully reflected in the specialty passport. And according to future teachers, more attention should be paid to the social and psychological qualities of the tutor’s personality. To increase the effectiveness of tutors, it is necessary to constantly conduct internal corporate refresher courses aimed at improving the effectiveness of tutors in accordance with the educational needs of students of a particular university. The authors conclude that further research on the activities of tutors and the expectations of Russian students from specialists of this type will make it possible to specify the list of competencies and scientifically substantiate the need to introduce the position of tutor in the staffing of universities.