The article presents a comprehensive view on current problems in the professional development of teachers, estimates the potential in this sphere, and describes the principal directions in the reforming of the professional development system.

The participants discussed the following questions:What is pedagogical training today? What are the results of the change in the status of pedagogical colleges and their transformation into classical universities? How can the quality of teachers training be increased?What teachers are needed and...

The article presents information on the number of education institutions that prepare teachers, on the number of education students in the posthigh- school institutions, and on their enrollment and graduation. Information about the professional development of teachers at vocational training...

Professional development of and methodological support for working educators are considered as one of the key tasks in the computerization of schools. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have learned about the possibilities offered by computers and the Internet. However, there have been no...

The article briefly reviews the problems related to the teaching of informatics in Russian schools. Recognizing the importance of basic problems, such as providing schools with computers and determining the number of academic hours that should be dedicated to informatics, the article focuses on...

A Round Table "Computerization of Schools Today and Tomorrow: Problems and Possible Solutions" was held on October 14, 2005. It was organized on the initiative of the editorial board of Problems of Education. The following questions were discussed: - What are the results of the twenty-year-long...

The Swedish school system suffers from profound problems with teacher recruitment and retention, knowledge decline, and grade inflation. Absenteeism is high, and psychiatric disorders have risen sharply among Swedish pupils in the last ten years. In this pioneering analysis of the consequences...