Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The urgency of the problem of improving the economic education of students is justified, there are considered features of its resolution in informatics training in the higher school. The relevance of research on improving the economic education of students is due to a number of factors: the need for the development of small and medium-sized businesses in Russia; The need to ensure the competitiveness of graduates; The need to prevent the numerous financial problems that arise in young people due to their economic illiteracy, etc. In the global plan, the work to improve the economic education of students is called upon to contribute to the formation of a national philosophy of "self-reliance". In many countries of the world such work in educational institutions is carried out both as independent subjects, and within the framework of existing subjects studied in educational institutions. It is asserted that the information education of high school students can and should make a definite contribution to the realization of each of the social functions of economic consciousness: enlightened, developing, educational, organizing, aesthetic and prognostic. It is substantiated that with information preparation it is most expedient to form one of such functions - prognostic. It is worthwhile to solve this problem based on the methodology of role information modeling