The student of NArFU: vector of changes

The idea of creating in Archangelsk a single research and education at the university complex and CCGT ASTU were in the air for a long time. Initiative combining leading universities Arkhangelsk owned PSU Rector V. N. Bulatov. In February 2007, the Academic Council of PSU has decided to create in Arkhangelsk scientific and educational innovation university complex named after M. V. Lomonosov. Natural to preserve the Lomonosov University in the name of the future: North Federal National University named after M. V. Lomonosov. It was assumed that the university complex will include PSU, ASTU, Sevmashtuz, Arkhangelsk Pedagogical College, Lomonosov gymnasium and a number of other educational institutions. Creating a new type of university in the North was symbolic for the upcoming 300th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Lomonosov.

It would seem very informed decision of the Academic Council of the University Pomeranian then faced with the ambitions of the administration and faculty ASTU. In the local press in the name of the future incisive university complex ‘lesoped’ could guess the claim to a leading role in a possible merger Technical University, which later actually happened.

The objective basis for the future change was a risk in the permanent reforms in the vocational education loses the federal funding and be in a cohort of secondary regional universities. Presidential Decree ‘On the federal universities’ from May 7, 2008 № 716 initiated the process of establishing the federal universities in Russia. In the end, the old dispute between the ‘physicists’ and ‘lyricists’ initiative in the creation of the Federal University of Technology was transferred to the university and its base the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M. V. Lomonosov. May 20, 2011 Pomor State University named after M. V. Lomonosov ceased to exist by joining the Northern (Arctic) Federal University.

The main task of the new university as a major research and the education and innovation center – increasing the role of the science, higher and vocational education in the socio-economic and cultural development of the North and the Arctic for the next decade. While humanities should become a solid foundation of the technical education, and only in this case, you can count on the synergistic effect of combining the two research schools: the humanities and the technical specialists. Unfortunately, it is not sad to say today, the process of humanization of technical education largely took the opposite character – and reduce techno cration. Humanities conducted including the optimization of the structure under the guise of the educational and research activities of the university.

It is no secret that the Ministry of Education initiated reforms in education differently perceived the participants in the educational process, and their authoritarian style of the growth is accompanied by the social tensions and conflicts. For example, large-scale institutional significant social experiments in education (for example, the national project ‘Education’ initiative ‘New School’, the closure of rural schools, the establishment of a network of federal universities) are without competent support, based on the so-called ‘sociological sense’ to educators and university administrators [1].

Genuine anxiety from the scientific community and caused the results of the monitoring guidelines for determining the state universities with evidence of inefficient work conducted in the Ministry of Education in 2012 to reorganize the course, essentially eliminating ‘inefficient institutions’, according to Sergei Neklyudova paves the way ‘for the final defeat of the national higher education – under the pretext of removing him from the crisis (well, by the way, the real)’ [2]. Installation on a reduction in public schools, and at the same time and the whole system of Sciences conducted totalitarian methods on top of the current management team of the Russian Ministry recalls half-forgotten campaign of the command system of consolidation of the collective farms and turned into state farms, eliminating unpromising villages... Experts predict a decrease in the number of budget places for students, an increase of tuition fees on a cost recovery basis and the increase in the enrollment in private universities, most of them giving ersatz education.

We can assume that in education events occur that P. A. Sorokin called ‘social illusionism’. It can be seen not only the economic feasibility of reform in education, but also ideological: that man was more manageable, it is necessary to deprive culture, a sense of his middle name, providing training to the Western standards in the spirit of the so-called ‘Bologna process’.

Today, when the intellectual potential of becoming a leading factor in the world's progress, it is urgent to take all possible measures to prevent new generations of the spiritual degradation, implementing the principle of free higher education to meet new requirements to an informationbased learning, new discoveries in the science and technology.

The concept of the social mobility, P. A. Sorokin as the main channel of the vertical circulation contributes to the Institute of Education. In societies where the schools are open to all members of society, institutions of education constitute a social elevator, moving from the bottom to the very top of society. If the obstacles are in the society and privileged education is made available only to the higher strata of the population, higher education as a social elevator carries up only the residents of the upper floors, which shows once again: people contribute to social advancement wealth.

From this follows the need for the objective scientific and the sociological support of the formation of the future intellectual elite. In these circumstances, the importance attached to the public opinion research participants in the educational process – students of NArFU named after M.V.Lomonosov. The main task of the sociological support – is the early detection, diagnosis and the removal of the social tensions among the students, the public opinion.

The region has been positive experience sociological diagnosis and the support reforms in the vocational education [3]. To the research actively involved the students and graduates of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M. V. University. In May 2012 graduate of the Institute of Social and Humanitarian and Political Science conducted a case study to examine the students' opinions about education in the NArFU named after M. V. Lomonosov at a new university. The results of this study, readers will learn below.