PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN RUSSIA: ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF TRAINING

Abstract

As the result of transfer to the market economy and joining Bolognese declaration the system of professional education in Russia undergoes the series of transformations. For optimization of the budget means expenditure there takes place the closing and consolidation of professional educational organizations of all levels that leads to the decrease of education accessibility. Elimination of the primary stage of professional education and introduction of bachelor degree as a stage of the higher professional education leads to the complications in realization of the principle of continuation of professional education. The transfer to the two-step system of higher education faces students with the choice: to remain a bachelor (half-taught specialist) and reduce the own chances for employment or receive the full education, finished it in MA. Orientation of Federal state standards on the competence approach results in the decrease of professional education quality. To raise the quality of professional staff training in Russia it is important to take the following measures. Firstly, to stop the practice of closing and consolidation of educational organizations, for optimization of the budget means expenditure. Secondly, to eliminate contradictions in realization of the principle of professional education continuity at the expense of return of the primary state of professional education into the system of professional education and of the specialist degree on series of directions into the system of higher education and increase of budget places in MA. Thirdly, to raise the quality of qualified staff training by decrease of the load on teachers, use of improved activity approach at elaboration of Federal state educational standards, orientation of professional education on the formation of integral structure of professional activity in future specialist instead of separate competences, given annually from above.