Published on: 2026-04-23
Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Government of the Russian Federation –
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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov launched the open expert dialogue “Higher Education in the New Technological Era.”
During three days at the National Center “Russia,” representatives of federal ministries, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the academic and professional community, and business will work through the foundations for updating the higher education model, taking into account trends in the development of technologies, demographic situation, and changes in the labor market.
Dmitry Chernyshenko identified a number of key challenges that the Government is working on: achieving technological leadership of Russia, synthesizing the best practices of Soviet education and experience of recent decades, and training engineers of a new type.
“Achieving technological leadership of Russia is a national goal set by our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The role of universities here is great – it is precisely they who prepare personnel for the economy. By 2032, Russia will need 4.5 million specialists with higher education. These are the data of the personnel forecast of the national project “Personnel,” overseen in the Government by Tatyana Alekseevna Golikova. It is important for us to focus not only on the number of such specialists but also on the quality and training.””Therefore, I expect that together with the business community, educational standards will be considered, and new formats of the educational process will be defined,” noted the vice-premier.
He added that simultaneously the higher education system must be flexible, promptly responding to changes and requests of socio-economic development. It is necessary to prepare not just executors, but creatively thinking, initiative specialists capable of creating their own unique technologies and solutions.
“The necessity of synergy between the best practices of Soviet education and the experience of recent decades was emphasized by our President Vladimir Vladimirovich in his address to the Federal Assembly. This gave a start to a pilot project to implement a new model of higher education in 6 universities. By order of the head of state, the pilot has been extended until 2030, and the list of participants has been expanded to 17 universities of various industry affiliations. In connection with the launch of the next stage, it is important to take into account feedback, the experience gained, and to replicate the best practices,” stated Dmitry Chernyshenko.
As part of the training of a new type of deputy head of government engineers, it was noted that the head of state, in decree 529, defined 7 priority areas and 28 important science-intensive technologies. National projects for technological leadership are aimed at the development and implementation in these areas. Graduates must possess all the skills to work with promising solutions that are being implemented at enterprises.
Minister of Education and Science Valery Falkov drew attention to the fact that President of Russia Vladimir Putin called the change of the entire paradigm of personnel training the most important task for business, the state, and the education system.
“I would like to draw all colleagues’ attention to the importance of the task before us. Of course, this is not about merely increasing the duration of training, rejecting certain concepts, combining specializations and directions, or rearranging subjects in curricula. Considering the scale of challenges, we need to rethink the concept of ‘higher education’ in all its key manifestations,” emphasized the minister.
Valery Falkov noted that the purpose of the expert dialogue is to look at the existing higher education system not from the inside, but from the outside, through the eyes of those who see changes in the economy, demography, technology, international relations, who understand well the essence of technological development and changes in the labor market. It is necessary not to predict the future, but to create it together based on an open expert conversation.
The result of the three-day work should be a program document with criteria for identifying specialties and principles for forming and listing within the framework of a new model of higher education, taking into account technological and demographic challenges, and the new situation in the labor market. The experts’ developments will be reflected in a report to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin during two strategy sessions in May: on the development of engineering universities and technical colleges and on improving the scientific and technological development management system.
Also, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Maksim Oreshkin spoke with the report “Fundamental Changes in the Global Economy and Global Architecture,” and Minister of Labor Anton Kotyakov spoke with the report “Forecast of Personnel Needs: How the Demand for Specialists is Changing.”
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