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The article deals with theoretical and organizational problems of introducing European credit transfer system (ECTS) into Russian non-state higher institutions. The author has come to the conclusion that the introduction of ECTS gives rise to a lot of questions on the part of professors and students of higher educational institutions. It is noted in the article that when working out the conception of credit system for Russian higher school it is important to discuss principles of credit assessment of educational curriculum content on the basis of planning the results of its realization. The suggested idea is to give higher institutions an opportunity to work out experimental educational standards within the limits of cycle (and perhaps, course) structure of federal state educational standards. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p243

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  • The increase of the quality of education is the most important and acute problem which is being solved by different higher education institutions

  • While developing the concept the system of credits for the Russian higher school it is important to discuss the principles of the credits assessment of the content of education programme on the basis of planning of results and its acquiring

  • The higher education institutions should be given an opportunity to develop experimental educational standards within the frameworks of the cycle structure of the federal state educational standards, providing the opportunity to navigate within the frameworks of the curriculum in order to increase the quality of higher education

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Stepanov Victor Ivanovich

The article deals with theoretical and organizational problems of introducing European credit transfer system (ECTS) into Russian non-state higher institutions. The author has come to the conclusion that the introduction of ECTS gives rise to a lot of questions on the part of professors and students of higher educational institutions. It is noted in the article that when working out the conception of credit system for Russian higher school it is important to discuss principles of credit assessment of educational curriculum content on the basis of planning the results of its realization. The suggested idea is to give higher institutions an opportunity to work out experimental educational standards within the limits of cycle (and perhaps, course) structure of federal state educational standards

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