Issues and Paths to Improve the Policy in the Higher Professional Education Within the Innovative Development of Modern Society

Abstract

The chapter is dedicated to the topical Russian issue of improvement of public policy in the reformation of the higher professional education system in order to raise its quality and ensure the competitiveness of Russian professional staff on the domestic and international labor markets. The authors reveal and analyze the main system problems related to the improvement of education quality in Russian universities, studying in detail the particular points of this issue. We consider possible ways to raise the quality of education associated with Russia’s accession to the Bologna process and the transition to a two-stage model of education in Russian universities. The authors suppose that insufficient provision of education quality in higher education institutions of the mass segment is the main factor of the inconsistency of graduates’ training with the modern labor market demands. Particular attention is paid to the prospects for the development of creativity and innovative thinking using teaching methods used in higher education institutions.