摘要:Innovative education is a purposeful process of education and innovative training of a person, contributes to the development of his creative abilities, self-learning skills, self-improvement. The main objective of innovative education, formulated from the perspective of the mechanisms for the development of post-industrial civilization, is to ensure that the quality of human development is ahead of the way. As an important area of social activity, education outpaces other forms of social activity in its development. Innovative activity in education is a multi-component social activity. Innovations in professional education express the integrative content of technical and technological, pedagogical, organizational and managerial, socio-economic innovations. These innovations ensure the innovative development of not only professional education, but also science, production, economy, management and the social sphere. Innovative processes in vocational education are put into practice in innovative education. Pedagogical innovations involve a personal and creative process of organizing the educational process, they cover the entire field of education. The contradiction between the demand of society for the quality of vocational training of university graduates, able to purposefully and effectively carry out self-education and self-preparation for productive activities in the constantly changing external environment and the real practice of educational process in universities, actualizes the problem of self-education and self-training of students for innovative professional activities. Innovative process and innovation in connection with the implementation of new state educational standards in Russian secondary and higher education are gaining special status.