Abstract
The article is devoted to the meeting of the presidium of the Federal Educational and Methodological Association (cluster “Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies”) held in September 2017 in Saratov. It deals with topical educational and methodological issues discussed at the meeting. In particular, it outlines the problems of the development of a pedagogical module for the programs of higher education, the tasks of this module, its structure and competencies. It considers the problems of the development of general basic educational programs of the bachelor and master’s level: the questions of the register of profiles, the structure of competencies and the construction of curricula, and also pays attention to the current condition of the Faculty of Philosophy of the N.G. Chernyshevsky Saratov National Research University and its current work.