According to Aliyev, the first thing that Russian students will likely face from September 1 next year is an increase in the duration of the bachelor's degree program from four to six years. Thus, the bachelor's degree becomes a standard higher education. Here, it is important for universities to understand in advance how the curriculum should be changed and what exactly it is supposed to be supplemented with, the expert notes.
"The second most important change will concern the connection between the basic higher education and the master's degree. This will help avoid cases where a sociologist, after a bachelor's degree, continues his studies in a master's degree in management, and a builder chooses political science," says the RIA Novosti source. In other words, the connections between the bachelor's and master's degree specialties must be determined.
Finally, the third innovation that can be predicted today is india mobile database the change in the status of postgraduate studies from education to scientific activity. Perhaps this will lead to some reduction in places in postgraduate studies, but will lay the foundation for the accelerated development of science.
Said Gafurov, member of the Central Council of the Independent Trade Union “New Labor”, associate professor of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies at the Moscow State Linguistic University, adds that the main features of the new reform will be greater flexibility and less unification.
"Those who study under the old programs will complete their education under them. It is practically impossible to change programs in the middle of training, given the requirements for the development of students' competencies," the expert says.
Why Russia has decided to introduce an updated system of higher education
The reasons for updating the higher education system are in the needs of the national economy, and not within the higher education system itself, Gafurov believes. The attempt to introduce the Bologna system in Russia for the sake of compatibility of diplomas with foreign higher education systems met with viscous implicit resistance from society.