Measures to create the most flexible conditions of employment for students and graduates a lot. So, now the Ministry of education is working on the revision of lists of specialties and areas of training, in order to give a new layout of the Federal state educational standard of higher education. The students will be able to choose the direction of training, starting from the first and third year of study. And for those who want – even change the profile or to take a “parallel”. A similar system exists in many countries leading in education and proved its effectiveness. On the one hand, it allows the students in the first two years of quietly look to the future profession, receiving a high-quality basic knowledge. Grants you more options to enhance the chosen direction important knowledge and competencies in related areas, thereby gaining a more competitive education.
in addition, the debate on the introduction of the Russian universities of applied baccalaureate programs. How is it different from the usual, which in all Russian schools? The essence of combined programs of secondary and higher vocational education, the Union of practical skills in the production and deep theoretical knowledge. And at least half of all learning is the practice, including laboratory experiments, as well as workshops in the workplace. The task of the applied baccalaureate is to do so together with the diploma about the higher education young people receive a complete set of knowledge and skills, to immediately, without training, to start work on a specialty.
the History with the applied baccalaureate is not new. In 2010 in Russia it has been running an experiment: more than fifty universities and colleges took time for a new approach. It was assumed that such a model would be an alternative to the classical secondary vocational education. But a couple of years, the case stalled. Too complicated was the procedure of reduction to a common denominator programs of higher and secondary vocational education.
But the reality is that the specialist SPO today has already surpassed the level of the graduate College. What do you think the universities are now ready to move to a new track? What areas primarily suitable for this? The Director of the Institute of fundamental engineering education Etu “LETI” Yuri Filatov convinced: education is the topic for engineering and technology profile. The trend here can be such areas as the manufacture of machinery and equipment, rocket and space technology, manufacture of electronic and optical products.
But the Vice-rector on educational activity of Tomsk state University Eugene Bows believes that the creative professions hereü the place. For example, in such areas as media, IT, advertising, art, design. Possibly management and business, records management. The applied baccalaureate can be promising for areas of training focused on the economy 4.0 is a program aimed at training specialists in the digital transformation of organizations.
what is the main advantage of the applied baccalaureate?
-This program will be developed only with employers: this is a fundamental point, – says Eugene Bows. – Students who choose programs of applied baccalaureate, will be given the skills in demand on the market. After all, half the school will consist of practices.
by the Way, at TSU there are already examples of close cooperation with employers: for example, scientific-educational centers “the Highest IT-school”, “High school journalism”. There, students begin to work from the second course.
the Employer – the main link in the history with the applied baccalaureate. But what about the teachers? If they need retraining?
– They just need a internship in Russian and foreign organizations, – said Yuri Filatov. – Will require the involvement of Russian and foreign specialists. But to what extent, the applied baccalaureate is the restoration of the old practices of the Soviet era.
Aliya Bagautdinova, head of Department for educational activities of the University ITMO:
– it is Important to fix the concept of the applied baccalaureate in law, to determine its place in the system of higher education. The model, when applied baccalaureate was considered as an element of integration of higher and secondary vocational education, was not effective enough.
