Abstract:

The paper is devoted to the problem of foreign students’ integration into the educational and social space of a Russian university. This research was conducted on the basis of the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the most important problems of the foreign students' integration at the university. The paper concerns the most important theoretical and practical problems of foreign students’ integration into the Russian university. The results of the research are the analysis of applied research conducted by the staff of the university. The implementation of the applicable part of the study of the problem of foreign students' integration consists of the interviews of students studying at the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin and analyzing of them. The conditions and main approaches of foreign students’ integration to the university space are revealed. Conflicting and contradictory points in the process of student's integration are designated, as well as conditions for the successful integration in the existing infrastructure of foreigners enrolled in Russian-language and English-language programs at the university. A university is not only a learning space and interaction of students with teachers but also their communication with various administrative structures. In this regard, special attention in this study is paid to the problem of creating an accessible tolerant communication environment between the university administration and foreign students. The problems of foreign students' integration are connected with the implementation of their educational activities at universities. It is also shown that an important role in the process of foreign students’ integration belongs to the field of solving everyday problems. The main challenges to educational space that are associated with the processes of globalization are considered. The current and possible elements of the university infrastructure for the integration of foreign students are analyzed. Appeal to such effects of globalization as knowledge of the English language as a language of international communication and a high level of tolerance shows the unevenness of their distribution both within the university environment and in the city as an external university environment.

Keywords:

Globalization, integration, university, tolerance.