The Bologna Process and Student Mobility

Students’ Mobility Service2006

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»

17-18 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 disciplines2. Mobility between universities within one country3. 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

35%31%

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27%

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Москва Санкт-Петербург

НижнийНовгород

Другиегорода

Readiness of students to pay for their education in Russian cities

Частичное финансирование

52%

Полное финансирование

41%

За свой счет7%

Readiness to study in another university

Готовность учиться в другом вузе

Согласны 93%

Не готовы 7%

Attractiveness factorsФакторы привлекательности обучения в вузе

другого города

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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 Conditions1. Consultations, materials 1. 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