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What are the reform measures of higher and secondary professional education in the former Soviet Union in 1980s?
1. Extended academic system: ordinary middle schools will be changed from ten years to eleven years. In order to enable young people aged 15 to 16 to participate in public welfare work, the first stage of secondary education was changed from seven years to eight years, which is called incomplete comprehensive secondary school. The extended time is mainly used for production teaching, and most students are employed after graduation. Implement eight-year universal compulsory education to replace the past seven years.

2. Improving the level of general education in vocational and technical schools, combining vocational training with general education, is the current trend of education development, because modern production requires highly skilled workers, requiring workers to have a wide professional range, master several similar occupations, and be able to adapt to changing working conditions and work creatively.

3. Change the college enrollment system. College enrollment gives priority to young people with actual working years. Later, it was stipulated that colleges and universities should mainly recruit young people with more than two years' working experience, and direct recruitment of fresh graduates should not exceed 20%. The rule that middle school graduates who won gold medals were exempted from the entrance examination was abolished.

4. Carry out the pilot program of early childhood enrollment, and offer preparatory classes for six-year-old children. In order to strengthen the education of the younger generation according to the law of educational development, the Soviet Union has been discussing the enrollment of six-year-old children for many years.

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After 1980s, the Soviet Union intensified its educational reform. 1984 promulgated the basic policy for the reform of ordinary schools and vocational schools, and determined that the purpose of the reform of ordinary education and vocational schools is to raise the school work to a new level and adapt it to the conditions and needs of the developed socialist society in the Soviet Union.

It emphasizes that on the one hand, we should vigorously improve the quality of education and teaching; On the other hand, it is necessary to thoroughly improve the labor education, teaching and career orientation of ordinary schools. 1987 announced the basic policy of the reform of higher and secondary specialized education in the Soviet Union. The central idea of this document is to improve and ensure the training quality of specialized personnel in order to adapt to the rapid development of science and technology and the national social and economic requirements for education.