Abstract: The author examines the aspects of the formation of professional and key personal competencies and their features in the modern digital society and university education, reflected in the design of professional educational programs. The author actualizes the need to update educational professional programs, examines the essence and features of the formation of professional competencies in universities of modern Russia at the digital stage of the development of civilization, features of the individualization of the educational process in the era of digitalization and the spread of distance technologies. The article prioritizes the impact of personnel, logistical and substantive problems. The subject of this article is the conditions for the development of effective professional educational programs in university education. The object is the design of professional educational programs.    In the situation of the current stage of the digital development of society and the stage of the development of vocational education, the problem of the formation of professional competencies in university education is particularly relevant.The methodological basis of the article is a competence-based approach that considers the results of students' educational actions through competencies. The main problem of the article is the consideration of the conditions for designing effective professional educational programs and technologies for their practical implementation at the university for the formation of a complex of professional and personal competencies of students in the conditions of digitalization of university education and the spread of distance education. The need to update educational professional programs is determined by the peculiarities of modern vocational education, the level of competence and preparedness of subjects in it, taking into account the personnel, material, technical and content-technological conditions of the modern personality-oriented professional educational route of each student, which allows to coordinate and harmonize the disparate personal and axiological determinants of the digital stage of the development of university education in society.

Abstract: The present research article is devoted to the pedagogical problem of assessing academic achievements and competences of University students as a result of adopting new higher education standards. The competency approach directs a teacher in his educational environment depending on disciplines and allows to predict students' academic activity results expressed in the form of general cultural and professional competences. Within new approaches to educational activity, it is growing especially improtant to select the best methods for assessing academic success of students and level of their ethno-cultural and professional competence. The purpose of the present article is to analyze the variety of assessment methods and to test one of them, portfolio method, in the University educational process based on the analysis of the discipline 'Multicultural education' in the major 'Psychological and pedagogical education'. The main conclusions and results made by the author in this research contribute to the solution of an important technological problem of University education - analysis of existing methods to assess the level of students' competences in a certain major and selection of the best methods for particular disciplines and programs, for example, the method of creating a final portfolio describing particular academic achievements.