The status and perspectives for development of academic postgraduate studies: scientific supervisors point of view (based on studies of the mid-2000s.)

A. M. Ablazhey

doi:10.15372/PEMW20190309

The status and perspectives for development of academic postgraduate studies: scientific supervisors point of view (based on studies of the mid-2000s.)

A. M. Ablazhey

https://doi.org/10.15372/PEMW20190309

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Abstract

The study of the consistent transformation patterns and present state of the traditional for the Russian scientific field mechanisms and institutions is of undoubted importance and relevance. It is connected with the forthcoming radical reform of the institute of postgraduate education. The personnel situation is a litmus test of the state of affairs in science as a whole, an assessment of its real prestige and development prospects. The assessment of the «graduate postgraduate studies» practice, which was widely used at the NSC institutions in the mid-2000s, was also important. In this study the author based himself on the classic type of postgraduate school, where teacher – student model works. The empirical base of the study was interviews with supervisors of full-time postgraduate students; the sample was 52 respondents – representatives of all scientific fields. The greatest emphasis was placed on a survey of scientists engaged in natural and exact sciences. The scientific supervisors of postgraduate students assessed the problem of recruiting young people as one of the key problems for Russian science, and according to the majority of respondents, postgraduate school solves it «only partly». The prestige of postgraduate school «remains unchanged»; a significant proportion of the respondents also expressed confidence that a big number of high school graduates are still characterized by «the desire to devote their lives to science.» Assessing the level of requirements for dissertation works, the majority of respondents were of the opinion that they have always been of «high level ». Evaluating the «graduate postgraduate education » system, the majority of respondents considered it «an acceptable way to replenish science with capable young employees». Most of the Experts evaluated the resolving role of the graduate school as quite successful, recognizing that the change in the place of science in the system of social institutions of Russian society could not but affect postgraduate school. This gave grounds to state the presence of qualitative deformations in the system of reproduction of science.

Keywords

academic science, personnel, prestige, «stream system», adaptation, dissertation, perspective,

About the Author

A. M. Ablazhey

Institute of Philosophy and Law SB RAS
Russian Federation
Anatoly M. Ablazhey – PhD in Philosophy, Senior Research Scientist, Associate Professor at Novosibirsk State University, 8 Nikolaev str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

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For citation: Ablazhey A.M. The status and perspectives for development of academic postgraduate studies: scientific supervisors point of view (based on studies of the mid-2000s.). Professional education in the modern world. 2019;9(3):2967-2975. https://doi.org/10.15372/PEMW20190309

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