Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2015 number 2

This article deals with a problem of integration of Russian higher professional education into the Western European educational space. The European countries signing an agreement in Bologna represent one of four or five world centers on economy, politics and social spheres. Therefore, the processes that take place towards the auspices of the Bologna process have an influence on the global education system to great extent. Russia joined this process officially; however, currently the secondary and higher institutions are experiencing difficulties associated due to this transformation. The article is a bibliographic review of documents and scientific articles regulating the activities in the field of higher education reform and reflecting the development of the Bologna Process. The article examines the factors affecting the integration of the Russian system of higher professional education in the Western European educational space. The essence of the problem implies that, Russia reforms the own system of higher professional and secondary education focusing on Western Europe, adopting the Western European model of higher education and does not take into consideration the mentality of the Russian people, doesn’t keep all the best it is and was in the national education system. Moreover, it is necessary to take into account that in contrast to Western European countries, where they held a preparatory stage before signing the Bologna Declaration, Russia entered the Bologna process without discussing it in public. The scientific novelty of this article assumes analyzing of the Bologna process from the point of social and philosophic theory, in which the essence of the Bologna process reveals as a modern form of integration of the Western European higher education, and it identifies the specific characteristics of aforesaid process in the early 10s XXI century. The author concludes that it is important to carry out the reform of the higher professional education taking into account the features of the mentality of the Russian people, keeping the national traits of Russian classical education. It is necessary to discuss decision-making global changes with the academic community and the public, giving the trends that affect negatively the successful integration into the Western European educational space.