Sadovnichiy: a specialty in exact sciences will be introduced in the new system of higher education

In the new system of higher education in Russia, the bachelor’s degree will remain, said Viktor Sadovnichy, President of the Russian Union of Rectors, Rector of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. He said that in the exact sciences, in most cases, they will introduce a specialty. After that, you can immediately enter the magistracy.

Mr. Sadovnichy spoke at a press conference on the 2022 admissions campaign. According to the rector, the “general line” supported by the Ministry of Education and Science is the preservation of the specialty. He believes that graduate school “should be scientific, not educational.” “Of course, (should.— “b”) to keep the bachelor’s degree in those cases when it is dictated by some conditions. And, of course, to allow after the specialty to enter the magistracy, and not forbid, as it is now, ”added Mr. Sadovnichy (quote from TASS).

June 6 at the Ministry of Education and Science declaredthat all Russian universities were excluded from the Bologna process. The Russian authorities decided to abandon the Bologna system (which implies the division of the educational process into four years of bachelor’s and two years of master’s degree) and create their own. Expectedthat she will earn from 2023.

Read more about moving away from the Bologna system in interview “Kommersant” with the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov.

Laura Keffer