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Modern ecological crisis threatens the sustainability of human civilization. Awareness and education for probable disaster risk reduction give greater urgency to the issue of decreasing industrial failure rates associated with basic manufacturing activities and, consequently, improving the training in this area. The authors have highlighted the features of modern risk based approach in engineering training based on proximity of production entities to anthropogenic factors: allocation of risks and threats in professional and personal situations or tasks; critical analysis of any industrial process and considering its consequences; using professional and personal risk response strategies; risk-based thinking as the core professional activity. The paper considers the mechanism of risk-based thinking as a necessary part of engineering students training on the basis of diversionary analysis, and gives its algorithm adapted to their learning activities. A system of professional tasks and tools to be used in the students' future job has been developed to promote their readiness and willingness to work across trades within the sphere of their technical competency. The paper is intended for researchers, practitioners, managers of enterprises dealing with ecological and economic production activities, as well as for professional training of engineers.

The external and internal environment's high turbulence in the education system and its entity's activity make the measures taken and development programs insufficiently productive, which reduces the education social impact and its economic productivity. The authors believe that the management of education development requires flexible adaptive mechanisms creation capable to preserve the system's functional in a varieties environment. The iteration allows solving this task, as a control function, consisting in regulatory mechanisms controllable connection in case of the criterion parameters deviations in functioning from established norms. The iteration possibilities in achieving the education target results at all levels are shown, which allows implementing the established mission projection of the higher education system. Iteration realization gives an understanding of the deviations nature, education risks identification, which allows timely adjustments in the development path. The paper is intended for researchers, heads of managerial educational structures.

The author's standpoint regarding the category definition of "higher education institution competitiveness" is given in the paper. The most important characteristic of the general higher education institution competitiveness is defined as satisfaction of internal stakeholders-employees, achieved by means of implementing two directions: meeting employees' needs in decent working conditions; meeting needs of external stakeholders to the fullest extent allowing personnel to be proud of belonging to a higher education institution. The authors revealed and systematized the factors influencing the level of higher education institution competitiveness. The methodological ideas on higher education institution competitiveness are considered and the authors' technique of a higher education institution competitiveness assessment in educational services markets, scientific research and development, labor and general competitiveness including the following stages is presented: our opinion is that on the whole the technique of a higher education institution competitiveness assessment is to include the following stages: indicators formation of higher education institution competitiveness assessment and their classification according to competitiveness types; indicator distribution of a higher education institution competitiveness assessment in preference manner; an indicator assessment on the basis of the subjective and objective approach; an integrated indicator assessment of higher education institution competitiveness (the general one and by types of competitiveness). The need for use of the subjective and objective approach to a higher education institution competitiveness assessment is proved.Keywords: competitiveness, competitiveness assessment indicators, competitiveness factors, higher education institution, labor market, market of educational services 2) Conditions of competitive fight: higher education institution competitiveness characterizes its ability to satisfy the needs of stakeholders in the markets of educational services, scientific research and development and labor under more attractive conditions, than other higher education institutions; www.ccsenet.org/res Review of European Studies

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