Distinctive Features of Contemporary Russian Education

Abstract

In considering Soviet experience and the situation in contemporary Russia, the author substantiates the thesis that any state has the education system that it needs. The structure and content of the federal educational standard in specialty 081100 “State and Municipal Management” are analyzed in detail, making it possible to conclude that education based on this standard can yield no real knowledge, expertise, or skills in the sphere of management. The author argues that the same scheme underlies practically the entire nomenclature of humanities-associated trends, this system of pseudoeducation being in demand in our country because it fully corresponds to the state of contemporary Russian society. This system was formed within the model of minimal state regulation of all spheres of social life, which was established after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The implementation of this model has led to the loss of goal-setting and strategic functions of the domestic system of management at all levels. The author calls for a revival of these functions, which will lead to positive transformations in the system of vocational education as well.