Oh, higher education! How can you find time for you when you spin all day long, like a squirrel in a wheel: work - home, home - work. Go to the correspondence department - then goodbye to the desired vacation for a long six years; go to daytime - you have to part with ambitions and a career. And what the fuck did I not study before? Although I seem to have an idea...

Weekend group: who needs it? Family, busy and clearly aware of the need for higher education. "Students of weekend groups rarely become secondary school graduates," says Alla Shestakova, executive secretary admission committee Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship. - As a rule, these are adults who are clearly focused on obtaining knowledge. Average age- 28-30 years old. They study at a university for the first time or come for a second (third) higher education, which is necessary for further career growth. new specialty prefer to learn on the correspondence form in the weekend group. It's a very conscious decision."

How many people, so many destinies: someone limited himself at one time secondary special education, someone left the university and went to work, and someone is forced to retrain and get a second higher education. Both those and others often choose a weekend group, which, in its popularity, is second only to the daytime form of education. For many, studying on weekends is the only way out. On weekdays - work, there is no time for evening lectures, but spending one of the days off at the institute is the best option. “The weekend group is very popular, and its demand is growing every year,” says Galina Belkova, a methodologist at the Institute of Business and Law. “Students are people who have made up their minds in life, hungry for knowledge. they don't know what they want. But it's natural at that age."

The weekend group also wins in comparison with part-time education, because not every employer (especially in commercial organizations) provides an employee with paid study leave. Going twice a year on vacation at your own expense is an unaffordable luxury for many.

Brainstorm

Classes usually take place on one of the days off - on Saturday or Sunday. Sometimes both weekends and even evening hours on weekdays are involved (very rarely). The lecture schedule is posted a month in advance. With a standard study schedule (once a week), students sit at the institute for 8 hours. Classes can be both theoretical and practical. Of course, it is hard to endure such a "brainstorming" - but this many hours of information flow falls on you only once a week. The remaining six days, students must digest what they heard in their heads and replenish their knowledge on their own.

What should be clarified when choosing a weekend group

What form of study will be indicated in the future diploma
Will you be able to use the library, computer room, etc. on weekends?
What form of knowledge testing is adopted in this university - a fixed or current session - sometimes this issue is fundamentally important.

Many universities, especially non-state ones, practice a non-standard scheme of passing and tests in weekend groups - the so-called "current session". Students take a test or exam immediately after completing a course of lectures on a particular subject. There are many advantages to such a system:

the material does not have time to be forgotten - students take the exam, as they say, in fresh footsteps
the received knowledge is not superimposed with a multitude of other, just as important information in other disciplines
no need to study several subjects at the same time, as happens during the classical session (usually students of day and correspondence departments go to exams with a "square" head).

Agree, it is much easier to learn and pass several subjects sequentially than to do it at the same time.

In some universities, students of weekend groups take only tests during the semester, and exams are postponed to the session. But even such a scheme makes life much easier, because sometimes it is much more difficult to pass a test than an exam.

And what is written in the diploma?

Weekend groups, despite their popularity, are not yet available in all universities. But time dictates its own rules: this form of education is in demand and promising, so more and more universities use it in their practice.

The most interesting thing is that officially this form of education does not exist. Of course, this does not mean that universities are breaking the law. Formally, a weekend group is a type of distance learning, and how to organize this very training - each university decides in its own way. It turns out that classes on weekends are a kind of adaptation of universities to the needs of students.

As for the future diploma that the graduate of the weekend group will receive, the situation here is rather vague. According to all the rules, this document should indicate the correspondence form of education. But some universities interpret the weekend group as a part-time form, while others write about the part-time form in their diploma, and specify in the insert: the training took place on weekends. It is unlikely that these subtleties will become a problem when applying for a job (especially since you are most likely already working), but if you want everything to be in order, find out these details before applying. Then "waving fists" will be too late.

Students of the weekend group study the same amount as part-time students - from five to six years (depending on the university). If a student receives a second or third education - three to four years.

Pro et contra

The educational material that students of the weekend groups receive is, of course, given in abbreviation. But, in contrast to the classic "correspondence", there are still more classes here. In addition, students always have the opportunity to communicate with the teacher and find out their questions. And yet, it is worthwhile to prepare yourself in advance for the fact that you will study for the most part at home.

All universities that practice weekend studies try to provide their students with the same opportunities that full-time students have. Library, computer class, language laboratory, foreign courses - in good university all this should function on Saturday and Sunday. But still, in order not to get into trouble, it is better to clarify this issue before you submit documents. And, preferably, the students themselves - they definitely will not deceive.

Another obstacle may be your work. Well, if you have a regular five-day week, but what if you suddenly have a sliding schedule? Like it or not, but working days will periodically coincide with weekends. “Often our students literally run away from work to take the exam,” says Alla Shestakova. “Employers are very harsh in this regard - they require proof that the employee went to the institute, and not to their beloved grandmother’s birthday. So some have to issue certificates almost every weekend - I was at the institute, passed the test. If you have a shift work schedule, it is better to discuss with your superiors in advance how you will attend lectures that fall on working days.

Difficulties encountered during the course:

you need to accept the fact that you will not receive the training material in full. 50% of the information, or even more, will have to be drawn from textbooks
You will have a day off, at best, once a week. And sometimes you have to work and study all day long ...
prepare yourself mentally and physically for the fact that within one day you will be "loaded" with a huge amount of new and diverse information
to study, in comparison with the full-time department, it will take longer (however, as in general at the correspondence school) for six months - a year
it is unlikely that you will be able to feel all the delights student life
Forget the scholarship and discount travel card.

There are also many positives:

can combine study and work
there are few days off, but there is a vacation that you don’t have to spend on a session (as in a regular “back office”), and after the end of the working day you are absolutely free (unlike the evening department)
you will constantly communicate and consult with teachers
you will have to pay less for tuition in a weekend group than for tuition in a day or evening department
in many universities there is no fixed session in the weekend group - tests and exams are taken after each subject passed.

Quote in the labor market
Oksana Sokolova, General Director of the GOST-Univer recruitment agency:
- The form of study indicated in the diploma is not so important. Of greater importance is how well the applicant passed the interview, how clearly he showed his professional skills and personal qualities. Some organizations accept full-time graduates. But basically, it is experience that is highly rated on the labor market, and not "crust". Moreover, each person is always evaluated individually.
In my opinion, the employer does not have any special relationship with the graduates of weekend groups. One thing I can say for sure: the ability to sacrifice your weekends for the sake of knowledge (when busy at work) is a trait inherent in a purposeful, hardworking and motivated person. This is an indicator of his active life position, which is highly valued in the labor market.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Literally in the first words of this article, I would like to emphasize that we are not talking about such a phenomenon as a weekend group in kindergarten, but about the weekend group when studying at a university and receiving higher education. Therefore, I will try to talk about what a weekend group is at a university, how training is organized, what the law says about this, and what are the pros and cons of this form of education. After announcing the approximate plan of the article, you can no longer stretch the article with unnecessary words, but get down to business.

The first thing I wanted to say is that this is such a mysterious form of education in general. This is something that, from the point of view of common sense, should not exist. At all. Because this form of education involves classes ONE day a week, as the name suggests, day off. And on this one and only day, 4 pairs or ribbons pass, as it suits you. Sometimes there is such a schedule when students study 2 times a week in the evening. And they have 2 classes a day. By simple calculations, we get that in any case there are 4 classes per week. Not enough for higher education?

Days marked in red may not be days off for you, but quite working days

Inadvertently, the second point of the plan was also overwhelmed, without really writing anything on the first point. Okay, let's add a little. All these classes, which, as can be understood from the previous paragraph, are vanishingly few lectures. That is, there will be no practical classes, and it is not so easy to remember the material from the lecture, it is much better to remember what took place during practical classes. This, of course, is a personal opinion, but my blog and my opinion.

Further on the plan is a very interesting point, which can be formulated something like this: what the laws say about the form of training for the weekend group. But they do not say anything, there is simply no such form of education. If there is either a form of training, then there are no weekend groups. But after all, private universities want to earn money, and in most cases there is a weekend group in private universities, and they use tricks when issuing a diploma. In the diploma, they usually write that it was ordinary distance learning, but at the same time, in the insert with grades, it can be signed that the form of education was studying in a weekend group. I don’t know how legal this is and whether this diploma is recognized as a fake, but there are some doubts about the honesty of universities.

Now let's move on to the pros and cons of such training. Perhaps I'll start with the pros, since there are very few of them:

Education in this form can be combined with work. A very significant plus.
Unlike another form of education popular among working people, namely correspondence, teachers can be seen quite often and learn from them something that you did not understand

That's it, enough pluses, now a weekend group, minuses:

Classes once a week for four lectures will not allow you to give out the material in detail and clearly. When studying full-time, sometimes there are 2-3 such days a week, the rest of the days are unloading and there are only 3 classes.
Such disgrace is not free, unlike full-time or part-time education.
It is believed that students will independently study what they did not receive in lectures. Read textbooks, understand. Yes of course.

I wrote everything I could about this form of education, but I can’t get rid of the feeling that it was necessary to write in plain text that this is nonsense, and not training, but I won’t, the thinking person will understand. See you on the blog pages site

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The distance learning process is adapted for those who do not have the opportunity to attend classes daily, but strive to acquire new knowledge. It provides an opportunity to consolidate theoretical knowledge and practical experience gained in the course of work.

During the study at the college by correspondence, students acquire skills independent work, perform home and final test papers, term papers and projects, pass tests and exams in the disciplines studied, undergo pre-diploma (industrial) practice, receive consulting assistance when writing a final qualifying work.

distance learning in college will help you save your time without losing the quality of the education you receive.

WEEKEND GROUP (training on Saturdays)

Training sessions weekend groups are held on Saturdays in accordance with the schedule approved by the director. The weekend group is a form of study in which students can afford to effectively and profitably combine study with work and with their traditional rhythm of life.

Classes in academic disciplines are conducted by the block method: the teacher conducts orientation and practical classes in the amount provided for by the working curriculum, issues individual written assignments and conducts a final control of knowledge in the discipline.

Program academic discipline « Physical Culture» is implemented by the student independently; a written test is provided to control its implementation.

CLASSIC (session) form

Extramural learning (classical) implies independent study material and staying at the college twice a year for a credit-examination session to listen to orientation lectures, conduct practical classes, defend control and term papers, as well as passing exams and tests (total number of 160 classroom hours per year). The duration of each session, with distance learning, is 20 calendar days.

M.G. Moshkovich, lawyer

On the day off you are sent to study: what about the payment?

The management sends you to advanced training courses on the weekend, but is not going to pay for this day. He says that this is necessary only when you are away from work, and on the day off you do not come off work. Studying is a good thing, but losing a day of rest, and even without compensation, is a shame. Let's see if the boss is right.

Can your boss force you to study on your day off?

Training in itself is mandatory for an employee only if it is provided for:

<или>legislation (for example, auditors should improve their qualifications annually paragraph 9 of Art. 11 of the Law of December 30, 2008 No. 307-FZ);
<или>labor (collective) agreement m Part 2 Art. 196 Labor Code of the Russian Federation.

In other cases, this is the subject of your "gentleman's" agreement with the management.

But in any case, the weekend is a rest time that you have the right to use at your discretion. articles 106, 107 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. That's why forced to send you to study on the weekend (as well as in the evening after work Art. 107 Labor Code of the Russian Federation) the employer is not entitled to. He can only offer, and you can agree or disagree.

FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES

Deputy Head Federal Service for work and employment

“The employer has no right at all to force the employee to improve his qualifications, except in cases where this is a condition for conducting certain activities and provided for by law. And under no circumstances can a worker be forced to improve his qualifications on his days off.

If you are not ready to sacrifice your days off, make a note about it on the order for sending you to study.

Personal signature

Ivanova S.A.

date 04.07.2012

Is there any compensation for tuition on weekends?

The question of whether it is necessary to compensate the employee for the day off spent on training is not regulated in the Labor Code. In our opinion, this is resolved by agreement of the parties. Part 2 Art. 196, part 2 of Art. 197 Labor Code of the Russian Federation.

So, if the training is of personal interest to you, you can not insist on any compensation. For example, you want to get a second higher education in your field and the management is ready to pay for it. You will spend weekends or evenings studying, but you do not claim any compensation.

TELLING THE EMPLOYEE

If in the order on sending to study on a day off sign on the familiarization line, this may be interpreted as consent to such training.

Another thing is that the manager wants to conduct a weekend training, without which employees will not be able to work on new equipment. Here it is already logical to require either to do it in work time, or somehow encourage you to such training by providing some kind of compensation.

The representative of Rostrud believes that the employee should be given an additional day off.

FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES

“ If the study falls on a day off, then an order should be issued to send the employee to study and provide him with an additional paid day of rest. There is no specific rule on this in the Labor Code, but such a conclusion follows from the provisions on the right of an employee to use the day off at his own discretion and the impossibility of involving an employee to work on a day off without his consent. And in case of consent, he has the right to compensation in the form of a day of rest.

Rostrud

This additional day off can be paid based on average earnings Letter of Rostrud dated December 19, 2007 No. 5202-6-0. You can also agree with your manager not to provide you with an additional day off, but on other compensation, for example, payment for the time spent on the day off for training.

Your agreement with the manager must be recorded in writing:

<или>in the supplementary agreement to the employment contract Part 2 Art. 196 Labor Code of the Russian Federation;
<или>in a learning agreement Art. 197 Labor Code of the Russian Federation;
<или>at the direction of the leader.

Reader's opinion

“Work on weekdays, study on weekends... And when should people live, relax, fall in love, raise children?.. No one cares!”

Alina,
accountant

However, with compensation under the agreement, the organization may have tax problems. As we have already said, you can pay average earnings for an extra day off. And average earnings are taken into account in “profitable” expenses only if its payment is provided for by labor legislation. p. 6 h. 2 art. 255 Tax Code of the Russian Federation.

Paying for tuition time can also raise questions from the tax authorities. It's not wages Part 1 Art. 255 Tax Code of the Russian Federation, not a scholarship under a student agreement Letter of the Ministry of Finance dated 08.06.2011 No. 03-03-06/1/336, not tuition costs sub. 23 paragraph 1 of Art. 264 Tax Code of the Russian Federation and not paying for advanced training with a break from work p. 19 h. 2 art. 255 Tax Code of the Russian Federation. Therefore, it is risky to take it into account when taxing profits.

If you have a trusting relationship with management, you can verbally agree on a day off on any day without writing. So your interests will be respected, and there will be no headache considering the costs.

Or maybe work on a weekend or a business trip?

In practice, some employers arrange weekend training in this way. It is wrong to equate study and work - TC separates education and work par. 4 hours 2 tbsp. 1 Labor Code of the Russian Federation. Service order m

Extramural studies is one of the most common forms higher vocational education . During periods economic crises demand correspondence higher education increases. Every year more and more students prefer this form of education. The share of correspondence students among students of non-state accredited universities is about 70%. Thousands of people receive higher education by correspondence courses.

Study in absentia suitable for applicants who wish to combine study with labor activity. Citizens of any age can study by correspondence, but it is especially popular with those over 20-30 years old. Entering the institute, they understand exactly why they need a higher education, why they chose this area of training and what they will do after receiving a diploma.

The cost of part-time education is usually much lower than full-time.

The motives for which citizens want to receive higher education by correspondence are different. For example, obtaining a diploma of higher education by correspondence form on the job, allows you to acquire and improve knowledge in your specialty. This makes it possible to climb up the career ladder, to increase the level of wages. If a person decides to change a profession, then one cannot do without higher professional education, since one of the requirements of the employer for the applicant is the presence of higher education.

students full-time students can learn another specialty in parallel by correspondence.

Specialists with higher education, in the presence of intense competition in the labor market, have an undeniable advantage in hiring.

Citizens who have a certificate of secondary full (general) education or a diploma of primary vocational or secondary vocational education can study by correspondence.

distance learning differs from other forms of education in the volume of compulsory classes for a student with a teacher (at least 200 hours per year). That. distance learning provides for independent study by the student of the main part educational material by textbooks, teaching aids, additional literature.

Non-state correspondence institutes in Moscow offer distance learning in the form of correspondence classical (session) and correspondence modular (weekend group) forms of higher education.

Correspondence classical (session) form of education

Examination sessions are organized twice a year. At the session, students attend lectures, seminars and practical classes in parallel and pass tests and exams in the disciplines of the previous semester in accordance with the curriculum and schedule educational process. At lectures, teachers review the main topics of the course, consider those topics or sections of the discipline that are most important to master by the session. In the intersessional period, part-time students perform tests, write essays and term papers.

Correspondence modular (groups of "weekend") form of education.

Weekend group training is organized once or twice a week on weekends. In accordance with the curriculum, students study blocks of disciplines, and after mastering them, teachers control knowledge. Such an organization of the educational process does not distract the student from work and he does not need to take a vacation for the session. Not every company provides an employee with even the study leave required by law, and even more so for those who receive a second higher education. This form of education is most in demand by students.

Our institute - NOU HPE "Moscow Institute of Economics, Politics and Law" offers its part-time students the conduct of classes by highly qualified specialists, including practitioners, the choice of a convenient mode of study, the possibility of forming individual curricula and training schedules, conducting classes in small groups using interactive teaching methods and elements