Changing the role of the Russian university teacher: The route to sustainable education

Nowadays, the changes in the university context confront educators with challenges and dilemmas, which make them seek new approaches to training graduates that will be employable in the national labour market. One of most essential issues is if faculty can meet the demands of the changing educationa...

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Main Authors: Wise Nicholas, Vidrevich Marina, Pervukhina Irina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2020-01-01
Series:E3S Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2020/68/e3sconf_ift2020_09003.pdf
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Summary:Nowadays, the changes in the university context confront educators with challenges and dilemmas, which make them seek new approaches to training graduates that will be employable in the national labour market. One of most essential issues is if faculty can meet the demands of the changing educational environment. Thus, in the present paper the authors aim to reflect on the content of teachers’ training in the Russian HE; to identify the existing weaknesses, needs and emerging issues in teaching practices and to match them with the best EU teaching practices, as well as to work out some recommendation for developing a sustainable teachers’ training model that targets to improve qualification of university teaching staff in educational methods and pedagogical approaches that are considered in the outcome-based and quality assurance context, which impart sustainable education to their students for better employability..
ISSN:2267-1242