Perishible diplomas
Perishible diplomas
RBK Journal, 01.11.2008
Milena
Bakhvalova, Mariya Simonova, Nikolay TchekhovskiyΒ
Gaining the
lead, Russia has to make a complete U-turn in its educational policy.
Russian high schools are no longer a source of pride. The level of attainment
of students graduating from Russian universities is extremely low, and
Secretary of Education and Skills Andrey Fursenko graded that system
itself with βtotal Eβ. It is quite clear, as the experts say, that
Russian universities are still using the models formed by the middle
of XIX century. This autumn the educational reform has finally started
in Russia. Will there be any use of that? Actually, officials had imitated
a European system of education, whereas in Europe they talk about crisis
of its own system admitting that new economic reality need to be handled
in brand new way of knowledge acquisition.Β Is Russia ready for
this revolution which is also significantly promt?Β
LOW-GRADE
GOODSΒ
From one point
of view, quality problems of Russian high education are caused by deterioration
of economic and demographic situations. βThink it over, in the Soviet
times less than 20% of school-leavers entered the universities, - imposes
statistics Andrey Volkov, vice cancellor of Moscow school of management
Skolkovo. β It was necessary to make special efforts to break
into high educationβ.Β
After having
put the economy of Russia on a market-economy footingΒ the universities
had to go everything alone, and a screening of incapable students had
virtually broken down.Β And now anyone who is solvent can become
a student. Since high education initially functioned as social elevator,
there was a great demand for diplomas and consequently for more universities.
At the same time a birth rate reduced. βThere is the same number of
graduates as the intake of universities. Soon there would be less number
of entrants than itβs neededβ β warned the vice cancellor of
Russian economical school Sergey Guriyev.Β
Eventually,Β
it can get on for 100% educational level among young people (almost
all the school-leavers enter the university), but itβs quality can
hardly be described as good, says Dmitriy
Badovskiy, deputy director of MGU Social Systems Institute. Diploma
is not a reflection of a real level of knowledge and competence, admits
Valeriy Katikalo, dean of high school of management, St-Petersburg University.
But the problem of Russian education is not only accentuated by a deteriation
of its quiality over the last years. The point is the principle itself
on which Russian high school is based upon. The principle which is causing
a dropout of specialists from alma-mater who cannot set to work at once.Β Β
βGraduates canβt be competitive in the labour-market which faces
acute shortage of qualified personnel for all the services because of
isolation from the modern economic realityβ, complains the director
of staff recruiting deparment of recruiting company Manpower, Victoria
Pyatnitsa.Β
Officials say that a reform of high school education can solve all these problems.Β European education system is taken as a basis for a new educational model. According to the professor of York University David Noble, the simplification and acceleration of process of knowledge accumulation, as well as its transfer mainly by the use of digitazed courses of admitted specialists and online extensible approach, form a substantial part of this system. The possibility of integration of advanced knowledge is an inestimable advantage for Russian high schools, admit the experts interviewed by RBK journal. However, while Russia is assimilating a model quiate new for it,Β other participants of education industry are concerned with totally different problem.
βEuropean education model came up to its natural limits as an educational institution, a driver for science innovation and a distributor of codified knowledge among elite. The origin of these knowledge, its microstudy distribution and decreasing hierarchism of structure are calling into question the viability of universitiesβ, as itβs said in the UNESCOβs report βTowards societies of knowledgeβ. Members of this organization are afraid that universities risk turning into supermarkets selling information. What does modern economy require of them?
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