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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.089.021.201704.637-650
Integrated Programmes for Master’s Degree and PhD Students
Boris I. Bednyi
Director of the Institute for Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Studies, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (23 Prospekt Gagarina, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia), Dr.Sci. (Physics and Mathematics), professor, ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8744-6042, ResearcherID: F-1467-2017, Scopus Author ID: 6603030833, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Oleg A. Kuzenkov
Deputy Director of the Institute of Information Technology, Mathematics and Mechanics, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (23 Prospekt Gagarina, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia), Ph.D. (Physics and Mathematics), Associate Professor, ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9407-0517, ResearcherID: G-9720-2017, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Introduction: the aim of this study is to develop a new model for training highly qualified academic and research staff based on the integration of academic master’s degree and PhD programmes. The new model of research-focused education is based on the continuity of PhD programmes with academic master’s programmes. It enables the implementation of consistent development of research and teaching competencies within the framework of a single educational path aimed at defending the PhD thesis. Such integrated programmes are intended to ensure (both organisationally and in terms of content) that students are adequately prepared for a professional career in the academic field.
Materials and Methods: the methodological basis for creating this model is provided by the competencybased approach. The methods for developing integrated educational programmes “Academic master – PhD studies” include the coordination of the systems of competencies for the second and third levels of higher education, as well as the application of the modular approach in curriculum design, thus helping to optimise the content of training of professional researchers and teachin g staff for higher education institutions.
Results: a new approach to the organisation of targeted training of research and teaching staff has been developed. This approach provides for the unity and continuity of research and educational components of training at the second and third levels of higher education and ensures the creation of optimal individual educational paths leading to the defense of the PhD thesis. A model of integrated programmes “Academic masters – PhD studies” has been developed, which is explained on the example of training experts in the field of mathematical modeling.
Discussion and Conclusions: the model of education at the second and third levels of higher education proposed in this paper enables an optimal organisation of academic programmes aimed at training research and teaching staff for universities. The results of the work may be of interest to researchers of higher education, as well as to research, teaching and administrative staff members of higher education institutions dealing with the issues of PhD training and certification.
Keywords: academic master’s programmes, PhD programmes, PhD education, integrated programmes, competencies, curriculum, schedule of learning activities
Acknowledgements: the research was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (Project No. 27.4318.2017/НМ of 13 February 2017).
For citation: Bednyi B.I., Kuzenkov O.A. Integrated programmes for master’s degree and PhD students. Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2017; 21(4):637-650. DOI: 10.15507/1991- 9468.089.021.201704.637-650
Contribution of the authors: Boris I. Bednyi – statement of the general research problem; formulation of research goals and objectives; analysis of literature data; discussion of results; edit ing of the final text. Oleg A. Kuzenkov – developing the methodology of the research and the integrated program curriculum; writing the draft.
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
