FEDERAL STATE EDUCATIONAL STANDARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CHANGES FORMAL OR SUBSTANTIAL? (on the example of educational standards in publishing business)
To understand the sense of changes taking place in higher education guidelines and to outline the ways of further educational process improvement we have analyzed the federal state higher education standards (on the example of the specialty 42.03.03 “Publishing business”). First of all the structure and content of the basic educational program is being examined along with the new requirements to the training quality of graduate-students in three state higher educational standards from the position of their substantial component and their realization terms. The results of the analysis have determined the positions with no or inessential changes. It was revealed that the educational structure and requirements for its realization of bachelors training program had been substantially transformed. Both positive and negative items have been revealed as a result of high schools independent bachelors training programs preparation. The changes of graduate-students competences list taking into account the program’s orientation on certain fields of knowledge or field of activity and their connection with qualification characteristics of an expert and further with professional standards have also been surveyed. The main conclusions of the survey include training characteristic changes as well as high schools availability to work according to the requirements of educational programs and didactical materials standard. The authors point out high schools perspectives in the improvement of training at the expense of using distant educational technologies and network forms in realizing educational programs and creating new technologies and corresponding didactic materials.