Individual Creative Potential, Its Development and Fostering in Higher Education

Abstract

In this article, the author analyzes the ways in which institutions of higher education may foster the development of creative potential of the individuals. Modernization of the Russian education system increased the relevance of objective markers used to assess the quality of education received by the graduate students who are supposed to acquire relevant skills to further their professional creative activity. The purpose of article is to define the components of an individual's creative potential and the ways in which we can foster its development in universities.