Current Problem of Education Management: Subjective Attitude of University Teachers to Changes in Higher Education

Abstract

The beginning of the 2000s has been marked by the processes of large-scale reform of the higher education system in Russia. The implementation of the ideas of modernization has been entrusted to university teachers. The actual results of the announced transformations largely depend on how teachers perceive and treat the ongoing changes. The article considers the subjective attitude of teachers to the following changes in higher education: introduction of competency-based approach in higher education, reduction of classroom time and contact work with students, technologization of the learning process, introduction of performance-based contracts for teachers, and increase in the proportion of remote training (including full-time students). The research results have shown that most of the teachers who took part in the survey, regardless of the length of service in the university, are rather indifferent to the changes in the higher education system. The influence of most changes on the content and specifics of the teachers’ work, on the quality of the teachers’ work (the quality of the students’ preparation), as well as on the professional development is assessed by the survey participants as insignificant. This indicates that most of the changes, according to the subjective opinion of the teachers who took part in the study, do not have significant impact on the real situation in higher education. The obtained empirical data are of interest for psychology, management and management of higher education.