Falkov announced a new specialty in Russian universities

Russian universities will start training specialists in the development and use of autonomous mobile systems. This was announced on April 23 by the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov at the forum "Higher Education in the New Technological Era" at the National Center "Russia".

"Starting this year, we have a specialty dedicated to the design and operation of autonomous mobile systems. This has never happened before," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

According to the head of the Ministry of Education and Science, new technologies have a fundamental impact on the labor market and the perception of professions, which also implies changes in the duration of training and the content of educational programs.

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The changes will affect not only the ways of submitting documents, but also the admission rules themselves.

On the same day, Falkov announced the need to rethink the concept of higher education in the Russian Federation. He stressed that technological changes are comparable in scale to historical periods that changed people's way of life, and education cannot but change.