The trend toward polytechnical education as a model for future educational reform in the Soviet Union is emphasized. (DE)

Reviews improvements in the quality of higher education during the years 1971-75, and forecasts changes to come during the Tenth Five-Year Plan. Emphasis will be on the role of higher schools in the development of science and in becoming large teaching and research centers. (AV)

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)

Discusses curriculum development to provide Soviet students with a labor education which is consistent with communist ideology. Discusses relationship between schools and agricultural and industrial enterprises, educational practices at various grade levels, educational objectives, pupils' production brigades, teachers' role, and agricultural…

Provides a brief history of the development of Soviet curriculum theory and considers the contemporary development of the secondary school curriculum in relation to the needs of individuals in a developed socialist society. Includes an extensive bibliography of recent Soviet educational literature. (TRS)

Discusses difficulties in designing a curriculum for Soviet schools that will allow students to master subjects and develop their individual personalities. Describes specific problems in designing secondary research: formulation of specific teaching/learning goals, integration of content, and reflection of the tasks of upbringing. Maps out…

Subjects taught in school have been compiled on the basis of tradition, empiricism, and the subjective opinions of curriculum designers. Researchers in educational sciences have yet to secure a scientific foundation for compiling curricula that would serve as a reliable guide on which to base the content of school subjects. With the advancement of…

This report presents 23 papers prepared for the second Anglo-Soviet Seminar on Mathematics Education, held in Moscow in September 1982. Notes on the points highlighted in the subsequent discussion are also included. Papers are grouped into 10 sections on aspects of mathematics education: problems of methodics in introducing universal secondary…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a resolution of the Soviet Government adopted at the 22nd Party Congress which determined the improvement of public education in the USSR. One of the key points was the implementation of universal secondary education for all school age children and eight-year schooling…

Results of two studies on higher education and employment in the USSR and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) are presented. For both countries, the development of the higher education system as part of the overall system of education is discussed, with emphasis on expansion of higher education, and access to college over the years.…

This report presents 23 papers prepared for the first Anglo-Soviet Seminar on Mathematics Education, held in Oxford in September 1981. Ten leading British mathematics educators met with six Soviet participants for an intensive program of information sharing and discussion which covered the teaching and learning of mathematics at all school levels.…

The U.S.S.R.'s Scientific Research Institute for Higher Education Problems and its research efforts are described, and other individual and cooperative efforts for higher education research by member states of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance are discussed. (MSE)