The Priorities of Higher Education in Russia

DOI

10.2991/iserss-19.2019.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

higher education, priorities, public policy, knowledge economy

Abstract

A characteristic feature of the modern economic system is the high dynamism of transforming knowledge into a key resource for progressive changes in socio-economic and technological development of countries. The main feature of higher education in knowledge economy becomes the shortening of the life cycle of professional knowledge. This causes the need for countries that want to take a leading position on world markets in terms of total expansion of globalization process to shape a new paradigm of higher education. The focus on inculcating the individual desire for fulfilling one’s creative potential, the continuous replenishment of one’s store of knowledge, the expansion of the general and professional horizons and readiness for innovative activities should become the central ideas of the new educational paradigm of higher education in Russia. In the article, the authors attempted to investigate the accumulated problems in the training of highly qualified specialists, to identify new priorities for the Russian higher education institution, to formulate the main paradigms of the development of the higher education system for the knowledge economy. Orientation to instill the personality of the desire for creative implementation, the constant replenishment of the "baggage" of knowledge, the expansion of the general and professional horizons, and readiness for innovation should be the central ideas of the new educational paradigm of higher education in Russia.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - V.V. Moiseev
AU  - O.A. Komarova
AU  - Е.А. Karelina
AU  - M.Yu. Karelina
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - The Priorities of Higher Education in Russia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 52
EP  - 56
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iserss-19.2019.67
DO  - 10.2991/iserss-19.2019.67
ID  - Moiseev2019/06
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