Abstract
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Development of higher education in society is closely connected with the dynamics of socio-economic development of society itself and is its integral part. The expectations and demands of society to education are constantly growing and changing. Still there are questions on compliance of education to the needs and challenges of society. The basic terms of educational policy are the words "relevance" and "appropriateness." Today, the education system is undergoing changes to adapt to the internationalization that takes place at both the regional and global scales. The changes relate to the content of education, its structure, didactic paradigm, technology, training, resource support and much more. Countries recognizing the importance of globalization, prefer not to stay away from these changes, and coordinate their actions at the international level (for example the signing of the Bologna Agreement by European countries in 1999.).
The mechanism of harmonization of the educational systems is initialized and MarSTU is an active partner. Currently MarSTU is working with European, American and Turkish universities and companies on the basics of 20 bilateral agreements. The University participated in the project of the European Union “Tempus”, the German Academic Exchange Service “DAAD”, the American scholarship Fulbright and Muskie. 17 foreign delegations from 14 countries (USA, Turkey, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, New Zealand, Italy, Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Moldova) has shown interest in the activities. The result for 2010-2011 academic year:
• More than 150 students had an internship in foreign countries.
• The University enrolled 195 students from Germany, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kirgizstan.
• 63 member of the faculty had an internship, participated at the international conferences.
• MarSTU had 46 visiting professor from abroad.
• 7 international conferences have been held at MarSTU.
• The University won two international grants which brought 7 million rubles.
• A new video-conference room was opened.
MarSTU received a certificate of quality management system in accordance with the international standards ISO 9001:2008, recognized by 38 countries around the world. In an international ranking of the results of Webometrics 2010 MarSTU ranks 4440 among 12 000 world universities.
But still MarSTU has drawbacks it has to overcome to reach the international standards. These drawbacks can be identified as the following:
• Bad command of English both for students and teacher which limits university’s participation at the international exchange programs and project activity.
• Undeveloped infrastructure and low motivation level for developing the “language environment”, no major and minor courses taught in English.
• Lack of real export of scientific products of the university abroad.
• Weak involvement of staff members into search for foreign partners, clients and finding sources.
• Low publication level in foreign journals.
• Limited representation of the university in the global information environment (including the Internet). The MarSTU “brand” in low recognized around the world.
But MarSTU has potential to become a real competitor in the world education society.
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