HIGHER DISTANCE EDUCATION AND ITS ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS
V.M. Medvedchikov, V.I. Panarin, V.G. Shefel
Novosibirsk State Agrarian University
Novosibirsk
Keywords: higher distance education, the Cologne Charter “The aims and objectives of training throughout life”, continuous professional education, the specificity of agricultural university training for agriculture and rural areas
Abstract
The authors examine the role and place of higher distance education in the continuous professional education as a key element of this system. There are analyzed the processes of interaction between the full-time and distance forms of higher education, the ways of improving the distance training on the basis of domestic and foreign experience. There are identified the relationships between higher distance education and additional professional education. There is indicated the specificity of the distance training for the agro-industrial complex and rural areas, the role of agricultural universities in solving the personnel problems of agro-business and rural areas.
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