Specifics of the organization of the educational process in small academic groups
The article analyzes peculiarities of organization of educational process in small academic groups in the conditions of reduction of classroom teaching. The study aims at identifying ways of finding the equilibrium between quality of education and training costs. The analysis allowed to identify the causes and trends of the emergence of a significant number of small groups in the University, including the reduction of requirements in specialists of engineering profile, low demand in individual areas of training, the low level of preparedness of high school graduates in technical disciplines, unreasonably large number of profiles on a number of fronts, the lack of harmonization of curricula. According to the results of the study revealed that the total number of small groups in 2019 in education amounted to 11.4 % of the total number of academic groups, the average number of students in small group less than 7 people. The authors note that the increase in the number of small groups entails financial losses for the University, so missed the benefit of having small groups in 2019 amounted to 33.8 million rubles, or 2.1 % of the total income generated from educational activity, which is about 3.4 million rubles a month. The authors believe that one of the ways to solve the problems of small groups may be a reasonable unification as the name of disciplines and types of employment that will allow the study of General subjects, to unite small groups to complete. This will promote the normal educational process, which will exclude individual classes and saved the planned curriculum, the amount of contact load with the student. The solution to this problem is possible if certain developments on the organization of independent work of students by their adaptation to the peculiarities of the educational process in small groups.