Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


среднее профессиональное образование

Secondary vocational education in Russia: Previous challenges and new goals of state policy

Introduction. The article deals with the policy of the modern Russian state in the sphere of secondary vocational education (SVE). Theoretical analysis. Based on the analysis of sources the state of the modern system of secondary vocational education, objective conditions and contradictions of modern modification are shown. The urgency of radical transformations in the work of SVE organizations highlighted.

Modern aspects of teaching a foreign language to schoolchildren and students of secondary vocational education in Finland

Introduction. Within the framework of this article, the author made an attempt to consider some features of teaching a foreign language in Finland at school and in institutions of secondary vocational education, which allow the Finns to speak a foreign language at a fairly good level. Theoretical analysis. Consideration of the reasons for these results made it possible to reveal the fact that in recent years a system of early learning of a foreign language has been introduced in Finnish education.