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Development of Soft Skills by Doctoral Students

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The Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on Engineering Education (ICL 2019)

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This paper has been prepared as a part of the capacity building project “Modernization of Doctoral Education in Science and Improvement of Teaching Methodologies” made possible by the programs of Erasmus+. The main aim of this project is to improve the quality of doctoral education by implementing new teaching methodologies based on interdisciplinary approaches and international cooperation. The author presents Russian system of Doctoral education, its structure, content and main competences required for training highly qualified researchers. The paper focuses on developing communicative skills by PhD students in the framework of Foreign Language Course which is included Doctoral degree programs.

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The research was co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union under the grant “Modernization of Doctoral Education in Science and Improvement of Teaching Methodologies” (MODEST) No. 598549-EPP-1-2018-1-LV-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP (2018 – 2939/001 – 001).

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Valeeva, E., Ziyatdinova, J., Galeeva, F. (2020). Development of Soft Skills by Doctoral Students. In: Auer, M., Hortsch, H., Sethakul, P. (eds) The Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on Engineering Education. ICL 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1135. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40271-6_17

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