Pre-university tutorial as a life-long learning component

This paper analyzes the transformation of supplementary education serving as a component of the Russian system of continuous education and life-long learning. Changes in socio-cultural situation together with scientific and technological progress have lead to the need of strict requirements to the level of general and vocational education. An increased demand for highly qualified professionals revealed certain deficiencies of the existing education system and emphasized the need to review the structure of supplementary education, as well as the quality of pre-university tutorials developed in the late XX century. This paper studies the system of national pre-university tutorials and aims at identifying the role and place of pre-university training in the Russian system of continuous education. The authors use a structural and functional method to analyze the transformation of such concepts as «out-of-school education», «supplementary education» and to identify the periods in the development of the education component under study...