Extracurricular Activities of "Life Management of Students" of Higher School

An ambitious and strategic goal for modern higher education institutions is simultaneously to develop qualified experts and to prepare young people for life. It can be achieved via extracurricular activities, which are considered both a popular and are widely used pedagogical interaction tool. However, their potential and functionality are underrated, particularly in terms of prioritizing. The aim of the article is at familiarising faculties with a new way of looking at organizing and conducting extracurricular activities. Taking into consideration that extracurricular activities should be realised with a startling clarity of the prospect of getting a predictable result, interdependent and reciprocal with other relevant elements, the methodological framework of the study is a systemic approach. Focusing on the development of a student in particular and the student body as a whole requires a reliance on a student-centered approach. In the present article, there extracurricular activities as life-oriented projects for upbringing the individual managerial qualities are examined related to identified three types of social interaction (organizer, leader, creator of a personal brand) within the context of the author's concept "Life Management of Students". The practical significance lies in the description of the algorithm for lecturers’ commitment that will take higher school educational process to a new level.