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In a number of areas, restrictions on admission to master's degree programs are necessary, depending on the profile of higher education received, but an excessively rigid model of transitions between training areas should not be created, director of the Center for Economics of Continuing Education at the Presidential Academy Tatyana Klyachko told Izvestia.

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In a number of areas — primarily engineering, natural sciences, and medicine - a master's degree cannot fully compensate for the lack of fundamental basic training, the expert acknowledged. But too strict restrictions, in her opinion, would be a mistake.

"If an excessively rigid model of transitions between training areas is created today, in a few years this may begin to slow down the adaptation of the labor market to new economic demands. The key question is not whether to allow or prohibit the transition between directions, but how exactly to build the rules for such transitions," said the interlocutor of the editorial board.

The new higher education system assumes several types of master's degree programs — academic, professional and managerial, Klyachko added. For the first one, focused on science and further research career, the requirements for the profile of previous education can indeed be quite strict. For a professional master's degree, it is logical to maintain the continuity of competencies within the specialty, but a managerial master's degree should involve a wider range of applicants: managerial competencies are built on top of industry experience.

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