Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (2015 8) 40-51 ~ ~ ~ УДК 159.99 Freedoms and Constraints of a Specialist’s Training at the Modern Stage of Higher Professional Education Development in Russia Victor E. Pakhalian* Moscow Institute of Open Education 7a Prechistenskiy Str., Moscow, 119034, Russia Received 12.09.2014, received in revised form 09.10.2014, accepted 07.11.2014 The article analyses the issue of freedoms and constrains in practice of a specialist’s training at the modern stage of higher professional education development in Russia. <...> The use of such terms as ‘profi tability’, ‘service’, ‘level’ is justifi ed for the tendency to objectively evaluate higher professional education. <...> These terms are regarded as the main ones to consider the issues of quality assurance of higher professional education (HPE), economic, and quantitative criteria. <...> Professional methodology, which is the basis of a specialist’s training process and optimal balance of freedoms and constrains in this activity, is given a special focus of analysis. <...> The author singles out the issues of qualitative characteristics of a lecturer’s professionalism, expertise of a specialist’s professional activity in other specialists’ training as well as the institute of experts. <...> Keywords: freedom and constrains in education, higher professional education (HPE), quality of HPE, methodology of HPE, professionalism, expertise of professional activity, expert. <...> As for the capabilities of a subject of social relations, or, in other words, a human able to focus on other people in his actions and behaviour, of this issue it will be used in P.Ya Chernykh’s understanding: “… originally the concept of freedom was associated with the idea of belonging to one’s own group, family, generation, nationality – in other words, to one’s own people” (Chernykh 1999, p. 148). these are personal ones1. <...> As for the term ‘freedom’, in the context Victor E. Pakhalian. <...> Freedoms and Constraints of a Specialist’s Training at the Modern Stage of Higher Professional… The term “constrains” will be understood as restrictions and boundaries, resulting from laws, normative acts, decisions of public bodies, ethic norms of a certain culture, profession, and limiting a subjects’ activity. <...> The issue of the article contains several aspects, which can be briefl y worded the following way: 1) formation of development <...>