The Bologna Process and Student Mobility

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The Bologna Process and Student Mobility

• Students Mobility Service
• 2006

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How it all began

• The topic Education and the Bologna Process
• was discussed during Baltic Summer Schools

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Winter Session St. Petersburg 2005
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International Conference

• Student Mobility in the European Higher
  Education Area 2010
• 17-18 March 2005
• Bad Honnef, Germany

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July 2005 Peterhof, Znamenka

• More than 200 participants were divided into
  three groups
• Mobility between disciplines
• Mobility between universities within one country
• International mobility

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Mobility between Universities

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

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Summer School Survey

• 80 most active, motivated and success-oriented
  students took part in the survey

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Hypothesis

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

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The Cities which were named as the most
attractive for education
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Readiness of students to pay for their education
in Russian cities
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Readiness to study in another university
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Attractiveness factors
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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 Support Conditions
• 1. Consultations, materials 1. Material
  compensation 
• 2. Contacts between professors

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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

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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.

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International Mobility

• Peculiarities of foreign education
• Orientation on the personality development and
  its life in quickly changing world
• Professionals oriented on narrow spheres
  according to the aims of economies
• Constant internal and external evaluation of
  education

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International Mobility

• Peculiarities of Russian Education
• Systematic education encyclopedia knowledge
• Qualitative advantages of teaching methods in all
  the educational branches
• Well-known and acknowledged specialists

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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

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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

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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 its
  use evaluation of libraries
• Rating of Russian universities
• Self-evaluation of universities
• Demographical-situation assessment of a university

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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

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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 (Moscowlt St.
  Petersburg)
• Lack of information field that reflects the
  possibilities of Russian universities

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Report in Mariinski Dvorets, July 2005
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