E-Management (May 2020)
Management of educational and scientific laboratory: new requirements and competences
Abstract
The role of educational and scientific laboratories in the University environment has increased in recent eight years due to the transformation of education in the Russian Federation. New requirements to education, to the competencies that students acquire, the shift of the educational vector towards technological disciplines, the participation of Russian universities in the 5–100 project-all this makes it necessary to develop a new class of educational and scientific laboratories in Russian universities. At the same time, the requirements for the teaching staff of the Universities are changing new requirements for educational technologies are formulated. The implementation of the concept of University 2035, and in particular the emergence of the new National Technology Initiative (NTI) markets, such as: “Aeronet”, “Technet”, “Energynet” etc. imply the creation of a flexible model of education based on the individual learning trajectory. At the same time, the requirements for educational and scientific laboratories are changing ˗ today they must conduct research in various areas, respectively, laboratories, which imposes new requirements to the management of the laboratories and also to the format and laboratory equipment. It has been shown in the article that in the conditions of the educational environment transformation, the head of modern teaching and research laboratory must have a fundamentally new list of skills ˗ from the ability to plan and organize the scientific process, to managing the laboratory as a structural unit, which implies the presence of managerial skills.
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