Keyword: «educational reform»

The article is devoted to the vectors of development of modern Russian vocational education, which is at the beginning of the next wave of reform after the withdrawal from the Bologna Agreement. The search for a new version of the national education system continues, which means that new transformations are coming. In these circumstances, it seems important to prevent a further decline in the level and quality of Russian vocational education. The author identifies and analyzes several important areas of its development: improving the status of vocational education and its entry into a new level of development; intensification of practice-oriented vocational education; implementation of the principle of continuity of education through the development of a system of additional vocational education.

The article presents the problem of the need to form a system of higher education, which would be oriented to the national interests of the state. The author analyzed the mistakes of the education reform of the 90s of the XX century, broke down the multilevel system of higher education into pros and cons, analyzed and criticized the unified state examination.