A NEW STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICAL EDUCATION IN RUSSIA

Abstract

The author gives a detailed commentary on the reinstatement in December 2016 statistics as the separate field of higher education in Russia (it was officially abolished in 2013), and emphasizes the significance of this event for training qualified personnel for this area as well as for teaching statistics as an academic discipline. It is aigued that according to the new classification, statistics has been placed in the altogether enlarged group of mathematical and natural sciences, but not in the group of social sciences (economics and management), as it used to be in the Soviet and post-Soviet period. The process of transformation of statistical functions in the state and society is analyzed; modem experience of teaching statistics in Russia, other CIS countries and some countries with the developed market economy is considered.

The final part of the article reveals the most important content-related aspects of the new statistical programs that are being developed now.