Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference ― Cambridge Science and Education Conference‖ (February 23-25, 2026) / Publisher website: www.naukainfo.com. – Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2026. - 289 p.

279 According to the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), knowledge is divided into empirical (factual) and theoretical (conceptual, methodological), which include: integral competence (a generalized description of a qualification level that expresses the main competence characteristics of the level in relation to training and/or professional activity); qualification (official assessment result and recognition, which is obtained when an authorized competent body has established that a person has achieved competencies (learning outcomes) according to specified standards; qualification level (structural unit of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), which is determined by a certain set of competencies that are typical for qualifications of a given level); competence/competences (the ability of a person to perform a certain type of activity, expressed through knowledge, understanding, skills, values, other personal qualities); communication (the relationship of subjects for the purpose of transferring information, coordinating actions, joint activities); learning outcomes (competences (knowledge, understanding, skills, values, other personal qualities) that a person acquires and/or is able to demonstrate after completing training); skills (the ability to apply knowledge to perform tasks and solve problems and issues). The implementation of the competence concept in higher education should be carried out on the principle of polyparadigmality, which ensures a harmonious combination of different methodological approaches to training of a highly cultured, humane, competitive personality capable of professional activity in the countries of the European space [1, pp. 65–69; 5, pp. 329–330; 10, pp. 231–233]. The main approaches and principles of music education are actively manifested in the need to modernize music education, which is subordinated to the formation of a personality oriented towards creative self-development, inseparable from the achievements of world and domestic musical culture, with the involvement of original authorial educational projects, the latest information and educational technologies, which are based on certain theoretical and methodological principles of higher music education, which are thoroughly manifested in art historical concepts