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In the professional community are actively discussing the idea of the Ministry of education to offer the student the opportunity to take 20% of the courses in other universities, and to ensure that it will have its main Alma mater. That will bring this idea of how students and universities in General, together with the “MK” was dealt with by leading experts.

– the Idea is very good and correct,- says the rector of the Russian new University Vladimir Zernov.- Its main point is to prepare competitive specialists. And in order to be competitive, we need to know more than your competitor, proficient in both fundamental and applied knowledge, and most importantly — to know how this knowledge to use. The quality of knowledge depends not only on the abilities and diligence of the student, but also on the talent of the teacher. That is why it is so important that as many students as possible could listen to the lectures of the best professors.

According to experts, this approach worked great in the Soviet system of higher education, which for many decades was the best in the world: “Soviet students could listen to lectures and attend seminars at other universities. For example, students studying in one Department could easily take classes another. For example, I specially came to MSU (and from Dolgoprudny, where is the physics, Vorobyevy Gory he had to take two hours) to listen to the lectures of academician Tikhonov!”

However, then it was enough to present at the entrance to the MSU student ID MIPT, and now in a “foreign” University without appointment did not go through. “Don’t pass” and a University in another city. But there’s got to have their say distance learning. Of course, full-time education cannot be completely replaced by distanta. But to use its elements can and should be. This will allow any student from anywhere in the world to explore its interesting course, not limited to the scope of their University, city and even the country. By the way, India recently came out with a proposal to the Russian mathematicians to organize a school for the training of their programmers, and in particular in RosNOU is one of the leaders of our country in the training of mathematicians. And it is symptomatic.

According to Zernov, “modern courses especially relevant to those training areas for which we are competitive in the world and, of course, to export-oriented directions. First of all it concerns the IT-specialties. In the framework of one educational institution is almost impossible to organize a full training though, because the IT environment is too volatile, it is very fast and new developments and technologies. There are interesting things that can and need to listen at other universities and organizations — for example, in the Institute about��LEM of information transmission Russian Academy of Sciences. But by and large, “the exchange” training courses required by virtually all areas of training in the field of television, culture and law. For these and many other areas there are so many special techniques that collect them all in one University simply impossible”.

– to listen to the part of the course in “foreign universities” is a much more productive way than for each University to build all your modules and programmes,- the Director of the education development Institute, Higher school of Economics Irina Abankina.- So there is no reason to restrict the selection to only the students of his University or even universities of their country. It could be foreign universities, including through distance learning or in the form of internships. With 20% of courses that have been heard “on the side” seemed very balanced figure since this is the amount of the variable part of the curriculum, which have the right to choose the students themselves. This is a very realistic figure!

to Implement this program, on the assessment of Abankina, you can (and should) have right now. However, there are on the way and obstacles, she acknowledged:

– First of all, we have a poorly developed system of mutual recognition by universities of the courses. For example, the guys from MGTU im. Bauman, after studying in France, returning to Russia were forced to dodavati all the items in the program in full. And it is wrong. In addition, our student exchanges are still largely only on the basis of interuniversity network cooperation on a contractual basis with mutual credit courses and establishment of their deadlines. But this model only takes into account the agreement of the universities, not the selection of courses by students. A more radical way — giving the students certificates by payment of a part of the educational program at another institution — requires regulatory change, which is not. There is another problem. Under this scenario the number of weak universities at risk of losing their students, and this can create tension in the universities with weak programs.

But who will benefit from innovations by far, is the students themselves, assured “MK” head of Society of protection of the rights of citizens in education Viktor Panin:

– When people have the right to choose, it is always good: who decides what you need to know what the teacher. But in the end, maybe even understand, correctly chose the main University, in which students learn. Teachers that’s for sure prostimulirujte to the development, not brancoveni, to which, alas, tend some of them. And, then, ultimately, it will contribute to the overall improvement of the quality of our education in General and the work of universities on the consumer in particular!