Final Activity Report

(March 2002 – March 2003)
 

January 2002
    Upon request of IPF (with a group of higher education policy IPF fellows of 2002 year) I participated in a meeting in Vienna. The initial seminar was devoted to defining ways of possible incorporation of our research into the framework of the international research project “The role of universities in social transformations” which is being undertaken by the Center of Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI), Open University, Great Britain.

February 2002
    Vienna meeting follow up: I have revised my initial project proposal and timetable in a way to fit into the framework of the international project.

Contacts with mentors.

March 2002
       Attended the first IPF training seminar in Budapest.
March - June 2002
    My research timetable is March 2002 through March 2003.
    Following the plan of my research I was involved in gathering and organising relevant information and literature about reforms in Russian education (especially in higher education) – that turned out to be so time consuming, - analyzed both external and internal factors that help to initiate the reform. I have studied how international context affects educational reforms and what are the internal forces, influence of globalisation on educational processes, what is going to be unchanged.
    The focus of my attention was on analysis of both the debates over the reforms and the contents of the reforms and evolution of official position as well.
    The analysis of development of reforms has allowed to conduct comparative research of Russian education at different stages of its development and to find out some internal factors of its change. I have considered it to be of use to conduct the comparative analysis of university level education in USSR, in 90-s' and now, when a new step of reforms of education is declared.

I have analyzed several official documents, among them:

• The Federal law " About education” 1992.
• The Federal law " About higher and post-graduate professional education " adopted in 1996.
• "The National doctrine of education in Russian Federation ", prepared by Ministry of Education, Russia. It is adopted by Government of Russian Federation (October 4, 2000).
• "The Recommendation of parliamentary hearings about the concept of reforming of education in the project of the program of Government of Russian Federation on a long-term perspective " (November 14, 2000).
• “Modernization of Education” section, Strategy for Development of Russian Federation till 2010.
• "The Concept of Modernizing of Russian education till 2010 ", which is adopted by Government of Russian Federation (December 29, 2001).
• Sorbonne (1998) and Bologna Declaration (1999).
• Database of St.-Petersburg University about international cooperation of Russian universities, 2002.

July-August 2002
    After analysis of a course of Russian educational reforms I have moved to the analysis of influence of globalization on Russian education, identified positive and negative outcomes and tendencies

August 2002
    Preparation of a paper to be presented at the 24th Annual EAIR (European Association for Institution Research) Forum “Crossing National, Structural and Technological Borders: Development and Management in Higher Education”.

September 2002
    Attended the 24th Annual EAIR (European Association for Institution Research) Forum, Prague and presented a paper on Bologna process.

September - mid November 2002
    As a part of a national case study I’ve examined

• historical, social and political context (‘removing the old’)
• historical, social and political context (‘building the new’) and
• characteristics of the higher education system in both periods.

October 2002
    Attended the third IPF training seminar in Budapest.
Upon invitation I’ve made a presentation on higher education reforms and Bologna initiative at the Department of Cultural Science, Moscow State Pedagogical University.

November 2002
    Attended the progress report meeting of the international research project “The role of universities in social transformations”.

December 2002 - mid February 2003
    Changes in the project proposal and timetable were introduced due to request by HESP officer V.Tomusk to prepare a paper on “Implications of Bologna Declaration for Europe and Russia”. I have analyzed recent international documents in higher education, among them Sorbonne Declaration, Bologna Declaration and Prague Communiqué and their affect on higher education in European countries and in Russia. That’s why the proposed institutional case study of MGIMO is reduced to the analysis of changes in the composition of students.

mid February – March 2003
Preparation of research and policy paper.

March 2003
    Attended the last IPF training seminar in Budapest.
Delivered public lecture in CEU on “Policy Research of Russian Higher Education Reforms”.
 

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