Preparation of foreign students for mastering the basic educational programs of higher education in Russian universities
This article analyzes the experience of the faculty of training foreign specialists of the Volgograd State Technical University for the last three academic years in order to identify conditions conducive to the qualitative development of an additional educational program that provides training for foreign citizens and stateless persons to develop professional higher education programs education in Russian, and further successful education at the main faculties of Russian universities. The authors of the article believe that the activity of the preparatory faculty for foreign citizens can be considered successful if certain conditions are met, including: the duration of instruction is at least 9-10 months and good basic training at home in the framework of complete secondary education. In support of this conclusion, statistical data on the performance of foreign students for the last three academic years (2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017 academic years) are given, depending on the length of time for the development of an additional educational program providing preparation for mastering the basic educational programs i.e. time of "arrival" of students for training). These statistics are presented in the form of dependency graphs. In addition, the authors of the article attempt to analyze the dependence of the progress of foreign students in the development of an additional educational program preparing for the mastering of the basic professional programs of higher education in Russian, from basic training of foreign students at home in the framework of complete secondary education, and also on the degree of motivation of foreign students in obtaining Russian education.