IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BOLOGNA SYSTEM PRINCIPLES: COMPARISON OF EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE
This paper compares the European and Russian experience of reforms in the field of higher education, through the formation history of the Bologna system. Considerable attention is paid not only to the de-scription of the structural reform’s essence, but also to the EHEA project, as an example of the implemen-tation of the global trend that is about the availability of higher education in the world. Differences be-tween the Russian and European experience lie both in the degree of implementation of reforms and in the nature of state control over their realization. In Russia, the principles of the Bologna system are im-plemented nominally due to external structural changes, while in Europe it was possible to achieve an increase in the level of student mobility and make education more accessible by giving to many universi-ties the autonomy right in solving organizational issues.