Today many countries around the world see the transformation of the state education system due to the following reasons: •Economic reasons. The society tries to define if students obtain sufficient knowledge and skills to be competitive and successful on the modern market. The main problem of this approach is the inability to project the trends and conditions of the market for 10-20 years ahead. It is impossible to forecast what is going to happen to the market in future and what knowledge and competences will ensure competitiveness on the market. •Cultural reasons. In all countries they teach how to sustain cultural identity and transfer cultural heritage in the times of globalization.
By and large, the problem of today’s education system, including Russia, is that they try to use old methods and systems to prepare students for the future. As a result, millions of people do not find it reasonable to receive secondary or higher education. “The stimulation concept” used to be the following: if you do well at school, you will enter a prestigious university, get a degree and surely find a good job. In today’s realities, this assumption does not work anymore. There is no doubt that this approach leads to personal development, acquisition of new knowledge, etc., but today a university degree is losing its significance and is not a guarantee of your future. The major problem of education systems in many countries around the world is that these systems were set up in the time of another economic paradigm. For example, the education system of the Soviet Union was breaking-through in the times of accelerated industrialization, when universal education was necessary to eliminate the technical and technological weakness in comparison to European countries. It relied on the economic needs of that time. However, this education system was effective in the conditions of rigid centralization of power and low globalization. In the time of “isolation”, the education system aimed at creating a production society made it possible reach the goals for the sake of which it had been created, but in today’s market conditions, these “rigid” standards are not relevant any more. So we face the problem of today’s realities, namely: we want the same social and economic development as in the 1st world countries, but cannot create infrastructure for such development. It is not a secret, that the infrastructure our country relies on was developed and, in many cases built as far back as in the times of the Soviet Union, or purchased from other countries and paid for in foreign currency. In this regard there is no point in talking about high quality, technological, and innovative development of our society, because we lack that modern basis we need today.
