The Council of the educational program is a new expert body for external evaluation of the quality of education, created to increase the education efficiency, control the quality of program implementation, and formulate a development strategy. The powers of the Council include the presentation of the requirements for the content and program implementation, examination of educational and methodological documentation, proposals for entrance examinations, as well as recommendations for improving and promoting the educational program.
The Council meeting is a platform for the open exchange of views between teachers of the educational program and employers. The objective view of the invited professionals allows us to improve the educational process, adapt educational programs in accordance with the modern requirements of the labor market and prepare high-class, sought-after specialists. The Council of Additional Educational Programs in the Field of RFL includes leading foreign and Russian scientists and employers’ representatives, who propose the format of entrance and final tests, formulating the requirements for the teaching staff and the set of teaching subjects.
Alexander Vladimirovich Korotyshev, the Candidate of Pedagogic Sciences, Director of the Secretariat of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature. The Chairman of the Council of the additional educational program "RFL";
Alejandro Ariel González, the Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, the University of Buenos Aires; the head of the Argentinean Society of Dostoevsky;
Tatyana Igorevna Aleksieva, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of the Russian Language at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski";
Alexander Leonardovich Arefyev, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Center for Sociological Research of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation;
Rafael Guzman Tirado, Professor at the University of Granada;
Sonu Saini, the Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, a lecturer at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Deli; the innovator of methods of teaching foreign languages;
Ulyana Vladimirovna Romanenko, a Russian language specialist at the Paraguayan-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Culture;
Natalya Bairovna Tsyrendashieva, Deputy Head of the International Projects Department of the Center for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation;
Leonid Viktorovich Moskovkin, coordinator of the Council of Additional Educational Programs in the Field of Russian as a Foreign Language, Chair Professor of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Its Teaching Methods of SPbU;
Yulia Gennadievna Kashapova, secretary, teaching and learning specialist.
The Council of the educational program in the course of its activities determines the strategy for the development of the educational program, and also formulates recommendations on a wide range of issues, including admission to the program, ensuring the quality of education, conducting the state final certification.