Urgent Problems of Reorganizing the Educational System in Rossiya Today

The article deals with urgent problems of reorganizing the educational system in the Russian Federation. The concepts education and an educational system as well as characteristics of the traditional home educational system in Russia in contrast to that in the West have been given. The author stresses that education is an essential factor affecting the forming of the living standards and quality of life of the population in the country. In fact, a pro-Western system of education has been established in Russia today. The author analyses the Soviet educational system and its role as the source of unprecedented achievements of the USSR in sociocultural and technological spheres. Most important epoch-making landmarks of forming the system of education in the USSR are considered, and it’s affecting the socioeconomic development of the country is stressed wiping out illiteracy of the population and legislative ratifying universal compulsory free education in particular. The author points out that education in the USSR was to guarantee meeting intellectual and spiritual demands of the Soviet people. It contributed to realizing the main principle of socialism: “All is in the name of a human being – all is for the benefit of a human being”. Problems of reforming education in the post-Soviet period, risks of intellectual degradation being accentuated. The author stresses the topicality of fundamental reorganizing the now existing Russian educational system and advisability of reviving the Soviet system of education, concrete proposals for reorganizing in the near future being put forward. First of all the Bologna system of education should be cancelled, and the Soviet system of education and upbringing restored instead. A universal compulsory free education is to be put into effect in all regions off the Russian Federation. The unified state exam must be revoked.