EURO-ECO 2010 Hanover 2 - 3 Dezember 2010	Environmental, Engineering - Economic and Legal Aspects for Sustainable Living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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The international integration of higher school, including that of the European higher school, has resulted in two significant documents: the Lisbon convention in 1997 and the Bologna Declaration in 1999. The aim of these two documents is formation of the open European space in the sphere of higher education, thus, providing convergence of the educational systems of different countries, mutual acceptance of degrees and qualifications, students’ and graduates’ mobility. The Russian Federation joined the Bologna Declaration only in September, 2003. That doesn’t mean that Russia hadn’t been working to transform the educational programs according to modern tendencies in the sphere of higher education. For example, the given transformation took place within the REAP program in the Russian Federation and CIS.

In Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) this transformation is carried out along various directions. One of them is development of a bachelor program “Environmental Protection” within the REAP project. The TPU partners in this project were The Open University and two British colleges.

In Yurga Institute of Technology (branch) of Tomsk Polytechnic University the specialists with qualification of engineer-ecologist within the educational program “Engineering environmental protection” are educated according to an integrated multi-stage system which key elements are: institution of supplementary education “Bio-ecological Centre”, the UTI of TPU, various enterprises and organizations in Yurga, Kuzbass and neighbouring regions.

The classical educational system supposes that students specializing in different branches of engineering obtain profound knowledge of theoretical disciplines (mathematics, physics, chemistry and others) and then study the general engineering and special sciences, doing this only at the level of theoretical knowledge, without practical application. As a result the graduates sometimes “know everything but can do nothing”, so the main disadvantage of the given system , in our opinion, is that it does not accentuate where and how this theoretical knowledge can be practically applied.

The integrated system offered by UTI (branch) of TPU in spite of its rather long history acquires new innovational orientation as a result of changes. It happens, first of all, due to formation of inter-discipline system of knowledge transfer from one field to another, while distribution and combination of fundamental and applied knowledge provides its practical application by the institute graduate.

The most important element of the integrated system “plant-higher technical school” is the engineering production apprenticeship, which is a specific form and an integral part of the educational process based on the personal students’ participation in the production process at the base enterprise and other enterprises and organizations (of various forms of ownership). Students also participate in scientific research carried out by the institute departments. The apprenticeship is organized according to a standard regulation concerning the integrated “plant-higher technical school” system, involves all full-time students and is supervised by the leading specialists of enterprises and organizations and professors of the core departments.

The aim of the apprenticeship is the accelerated training of specialists possessing all necessary theoretical knowledge and practical skills for efficient work at the base enterprise. The apprenticeship is to solve the following problems:

1. consolidation and intensification of theoretical knowledge required for for work at a modern industrial plant either as a specialist or as a group manager;
2. acquiring the skills of practical application of theoretical knowledge in managing production processes and the employees;
3. providing a job for the young specialist according to his/her performance and personal qualities and plant’s needs.

 

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