ON THE PROBLEMS OF HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN AGRARIAN UNIVERSITIES OF RUSSIA
In 2003, Russia joined the Bologna process, aimed at a fundamental change in the system of higher professional education that had been formed in the former USSR. The basis of the new direction was the so-called two-tier system, the first stage of which was the 4.x summer training of bachelors with the general higher education program, and the second was the 2-year master's degree program. Bachelors receive a bachelor's degree in training, and masters diploma of a teacher-researcher. The concept of a specialist with higher education has disappeared from everyday life and from practice. Already the first issues of bachelors and masters showed major flaws in their preparation and caused a wave of criticism from both university teachers and production workers. The educational process for new programs in the sense of studying professional subjects and acquiring skills by students turned out to be torn into two parts with extremely curtailed industrial practice. There was a crushing of the former fundamental specialties- "scientist agronomist", "scientist zootechnician", etc. on dozens of “directions” and “orientations”. Dozens of mythical competences appeared that a student should master in the learning process instead of one determined by the former specialty: an agronomist should have perfect agronomy, and a veterinarian should have perfect medical science and practice. The published work deals with the problems of student recruitment, the programs of their specialty training, the issues of preparing university and pedagogical personnel and raising their qualifications, problems of university science. It is proposed, in order of discussion, a radical change in the entire system of training agricultural workers in our country.