Didactic basis for the development of professional competence of university students

The article deals with the actualization of the problem of didactic foundations of the development of professional competence of University students. It is considered the concept of professional competence from a pedagogical point of view. The article substantiates the idea that professional competence is the creation of qualitatively new values that are important in the process of personal development because of the independent acquisition of subjectively new knowledge, skills and methods of research activities in the process of studying at a university.