Introduction of applied bachelor programs in Russian education system: how and what for?

Introduction of new technologies into production process has provoked various changes on the labor market: creation and demand increase for one professions and destruction of another jobs. Such situation issues the challenges for the education system in a whole and for professional education in particular. The paper looks how foreign countries solved problems concerning creation of applied programs of professional education, reasons the necessity for introduction of similar programs in Russian practice and analyzes possible options for its introduction.