The Bologna Process and Student Mobility Students’ Mobility Service 2006

How it all began The topic «Education and the Bologna Process» was discussed during Baltic Summer Schools

Winter Session St. Petersburg 2005

International Conference «Student Mobility in the European Higher Education Area 2010» March 2005 Bad Honnef, Germany

March – June 2005: ideas –> essays –> selection -> materials

July 2005 – Peterhof, Znamenka More than 200 participants were divided into three groups: 1.Mobility between disciplines 2.Mobility between universities within one country 3.International mobility

Mobility between Universities  Contracts between universities  Independent Commission evaluating the quality of courses read  University Unions promoting student mobility  Lectures using modern technologies

Summer School Survey 80 most active, motivated and success-oriented students took part in the survey

Hypothesis  Students are interested in student mobility and are ready to go to another university in order to get deeper additional knowledge

The Cities which were named as the most attractive for education

Readiness of students to pay for their education in Russian cities

Readiness to study in another university

Attractiveness factors

Survey results Advantages for Students Problems 1. Depth of knowledge 1. Students’ level 2. Wide horizon 2. Living Facilities 3. New contacts 3. Students’ Adaptation Professors’ SupportConditions 1. Consultations, materials1. Material compensation 2. Contacts between professors

Recommendations for Federal Education Agency  Spread of information about Universities and in mass-media. For the information to be true one must form a special certificating commission out of independent experts  Work-out of a concrete contract-form about student mobility  Work-out and organization of special programs and seminars for the heads of universities about student mobility in order that they could organize seminars for their staff

Recommendations for Rectors  Support of students’ self governance – spread of information about students’ possibilities to be mobile  Organization of additional trainings for students’ adaptation when needed  Support of constant cooperation with different universities through materials’ change, internships, etc.

International Mobility Peculiarities of foreign education: 1.Orientation on the personality development and it’s life in quickly changing world 2.Professionals oriented on narrow spheres according to the aims of economies 3.Constant internal and external evaluation of education

International Mobility Peculiarities of Russian Education: 1.Systematic education – “encyclopedia” knowledge 2.Qualitative advantages of teaching methods in all the educational branches 3.Well-known and acknowledged specialists

Mission of Russian System of Education  Forming of a systematic way of thinking in both narrow and broad professional spheres  Realization of integration models in the international education area on the basis of activation of in- and out- mobility –is a priority

Proposals  Complex competitiveness Index  Competitiveness factors, Problems  Strategies of mobility development  Passport of competitive subjects in the Russian education system  Competition of host-universities  Host-Universities Guide

Competitiveness Index  Evaluation of the professional call for students (in and out of Russia)  Reveal of those students who decided to continue education in their “home” university or out of that university – that allows to assess the extent of student mobility  Assessment of informatization of the education process – analysis of technical level of the universities, of students; the degree of it’s use; evaluation of libraries  Rating of Russian universities  Self-evaluation of universities  Demographical-situation assessment of a university

Competitiveness factors  Price – low level of prices on the internal education market  Fundamentality of education  Existence of popular specializations, e.g. Physics, Chemistry, Maths, IT  Russian Studies and Literature, Linguistics  Natural Sciences  Music, Ballet

Threats  Lack of economical and political stability in Russia  Lack of a necessary material base in order to host foreign students and realization of study-programmes  Asymmetry in distribution of universities that are ready to host foreign students (Moscow< St. Petersburg)  Lack of information field that reflects the possibilities of Russian universities

Report in Mariinski Dvorets, July 2005