Higher education institutions must vocationally train highly skilled specialists and integrate ideology and values into the curriculum. The content of education must be updated with the latest advances in scientific thought, and more scientific research should be encouraged. Three models for organizing the educational and research process are…

Plans of the higher schools for the Tenth Five-Year Plan, 1976-80, include improving the quality of specialist training, developing important scientific research, strengthening ties with production, and improving ideological education. (Author/AV)

Forecasting of scientific research in higher education in the Soviet Union should be coordinated with forecast figures for the rest of the economy. Recommends additional research related to different types of higher education institutions and interrelationships between research done by higher institutions and government agencies. (Author/DB)