Russian universities are excluded from the Bologna process. Sakhalin.Info

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08:05 June 7, 2022

All Russian universities were excluded from the Bologna system of education, said Dmitry Afanasiev, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia. According to him, one of the reasons for this decision was that Russian rectors and heads of educational organizations supported Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. Afanasiev believes that “it was the Bologna system that came out of us, and not we from it,” writes “Kommersant”.

“On April 11, the Bologna Group announced a decision to stop the representation of Russia and the Republic of Belarus in all structures of the Bologna process. In fact, given that our rectors, heads of educational organizations signed the appeal of the Russian Union of Rectors to support the president in connection with a special operation, then in fact all educational The country’s organizations are thus excluded from the Bologna process,” Dmitry Afanasiev said at an expanded meeting of the Federation Council Committee on Science, Education and Culture.

However, according to Afanasyev, in 2003, having joined the Bologna process, Russia “did not assume any international obligations,” since joining the declaration does not imply signing any agreements.

Withdrawal from the Bologna process will complicate the recognition of Russian master’s degrees and doctoral degrees abroad. Thanks to the unified academic space with the Western world, students from Russia might train abroad and participate in exchanges, for example, under the Erasmus program.

The Ministry of Education and Science announced its intention to abandon the Bologna system of education on May 24. According to the Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, “the Bologna system should be treated as a past stage.” Later, Falkov explained that the reform does not at all mean a ban on undergraduate and graduate programs, but now employers and universities will be able to abandon them in favor of “our historical” specialty.

The Bologna system is a pan-European educational system founded in accordance with the declaration “European Higher Education Area” of 1999. The declaration was signed by 29 countries, of which 16 were EU members. The system includes three educational levels (bachelor-master-doctor), as well as diplomas of a single sample, a general system for assessing the level of knowledge with the help of credits (credit units).