Features of Postgraduate Programs’ Reforming as an Issue for Scientific and Pedagogical Discussion

Abstract

The article discusses the problems of Russian postgraduate studies improving, the goals and objectives of postgraduate training. The peculiarities of reforming the national postgraduate school, general and specific principles and forms of its improvement are considered. The author dwells on a highly specialized orientation of postgraduate training’s educational component. The emphasis is on the need of its restructuring in order to deepen the training of postgraduate students in the beginnings of their researcher profession. The article makes the case for establishing variable postgraduate training, which means focusing of the structure and content of postgraduate training on different types of graduates’ professional employment. In order to improve the quality of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel training, it is necessary to examine the possibilities of higher education resources to be integrated with the scientific potential of Russian Academy of Sciences research institutes. A brief description of the international experience in the field of scientists and teachers training is presented. A two-level model of postgraduate program is proposed. The postgraduate studies at the first level ensure obtaining the primary professional researcher qualification in industrial orientation, while at the second level, the task of transforming the graduate student into an independent active researcher is solved.

Keywords

• postgraduate education
• postgraduate model
• scientific degree
• academic degree
• candidate of science
• doctor of philosophy (phd)
• postgraduate research
• professional postgraduate studies