Actual problems of student life essay. The main problems of students

Fedotova D.A., Shichanina E.A.

Actual problems of modern students

Fedotova D.A., Shichanina E.A.

State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Saratov State Medical University im. V. I. Razumovsky of the Ministry of Health of Russia,

Department of Philosophy, Humanities and Psychology

Scientific adviser: Ph.D. Pavlova L.A.

Modern students are the main political and economic, intellectual and innovative potential of society. This is a mobile social group with specific features of lifestyle and needs, values and interests.

Student problems have always existed. However, the life of each new generation of students takes place in different realities and reveals other problems. Therefore, their research will always be relevant and necessary.

There is an opinion that the period of study at a university is the most carefree and fun time of life. But is it? Russian students in the conditions of the economic and social crisis are experiencing quite serious difficulties in solving existing problems. Of these, the most significant and relevant are the following.

1. The problem of adaptation of nonresident students. Finding themselves without parental care, they are hard and long to adapt to university requirements. But they easily and willingly commit various violations of generally accepted norms and rules (discipline, sleep, rest, nutrition, hygiene) and are not always independent and sociable.

2. The problem of housing insecurity is the most acute student problem. Many of the students need a hostel. But the university does not always provide such an opportunity. Then they have to rent housing, which requires additional costs.

3. Financial problem. The small size of the scholarship (1100-1500 rubles) does not allow an optimistic assessment of the financial situation of students. They are economically dependent on their parents and rely on their financial support. And in case of refusal to help, they try to combine study with work, which negatively affects academic performance.

4. The problem of health. Adaptation of a fragile organism to new social conditions first causes its mobilization, and then gradual physical exhaustion. And as a result - exacerbation of chronic diseases or the emergence and development of new ones that interfere with full-fledged study and active life.

And each of them must learn to overcome difficulties and successfully solve the problems of student life in order to correspond to the proud title of a university student.

Literature

1. Pavlova L.A., Ermolaeva E.V. Health and healthy lifestyle of Russian students // Bulletin of Medical Internet Conferences. 2016. Volume 6. No. 1.

General characteristics

The success of teaching students at a university is largely determined by the real conditions of their life, the nature of the problems that arise in the process of studying and the possibilities for their resolution by the administration, teachers, as well as the services of social pedagogues and psychologists that are currently being formed. In order to correctly determine the strategy of educational influence, the teaching staff of the university must clearly understand the range of those urgent problems that take place in the student environment. At the same time, it is necessary to clearly distinguish between the general trends in the personal development of modern student youth and those problem situations that students face in a particular educational institution.

Our study was devoted to identifying the most typical problems for modern students. As the main research method, a questionnaire survey was used, which covered 3438 students, representatives of 13 universities of the Republic of Belarus. The results of the survey indicate that among the problems that arise in the life of students, insufficient material security dominates. It is referred to by 5-42% of the total number of all respondents.

Traditionally, the material support of students depended on two main factors: the size of the scholarship and assistance from parents or other close relatives. In recent years, the factor of additional earnings of the students themselves has been added as a rather significant factor to these sources.

An analysis of students' answers about using additional earnings in their free time showed that about a quarter of all respondents turn to them. Moreover, the main forms of additional work for students are those that offer all kinds of market structures: from the service sector (4.2%) and commercial trade (7.5%) to the resale of currency and things (3.5%). The proportion of construction teams and the organization of auxiliary work at the university is insignificant (2.2% and 2.5%, respectively). Only 0.3% of the total array participates in university economic contract research.

From this follow serious conclusions about the role of our official institutions of higher education, the State Employment Service, the State Committee for Youth Affairs in solving the issues of secondary employment of students. Considering the economic difficulties experienced by the state, it is not necessary to expect a noticeable increase in the size of scholarships or significant assistance from parents in the near future. Therefore, the efforts of state and youth structures should be aimed at expanding the opportunities for secondary employment for the vast majority of students.

The second place, according to students, is occupied by the problem of high workload of studies. At the same time, if in the case of insufficient material security, the difference in the weight of this factor between universities is small, then in the second factor they differ significantly depending on the profile of students' professional training.

Judging by the results obtained, students of medical (GGMI - 80.0%) and technical universities (BATU - 75%; BSPI - 70.8%) are the most loaded, or rather, overloaded with studies. Among the universities with the smallest number of students indicating a high workload of studies are BGUK (20.9%), BSEU (31.9%), as well as non-state universities: the Institute of Modern Knowledge (24.2%) and the Institute of Humanities and Economics ( 33.8%). For other universities, about half of the total number of students surveyed refers to high workload.

It is obvious that it is necessary to reform the learning process in higher education, including by reducing the number of compulsory classes in order to provide students with more time for independent work with educational and scientific literature, participation in scientific research.

The third place among the emerging problems was the lack of necessary conditions for independent work (26.8%). This means that simply reducing the required classroom study in favor of self-study will not bring immediate positive results. To solve this problem, it is necessary to have an appropriate educational and methodological base at the university, to provide regular assistance and consultations from teachers.

According to the results of the study, a quarter of the students we interviewed feel dissatisfaction with the material and living conditions of life. They are even more dissatisfied with the conditions for recreation and full-fledged leisure - 37.1%. 18.1% of the total number of respondents indicated unsatisfactory conditions for physical education and sports. Such a situation can in no way contribute to the creation and strengthening of a healthy lifestyle for students. It is no coincidence that 13.4% of the students who participated in the survey refer to poor health, as well as significant psychological overload that they have to endure during their studies at the university.

The presence of psychological discomfort in the student environment is also confirmed by the results of the answer to the question about the need to create a service of socio-psychological assistance in universities. The first thing to note is the need for this kind of service, which is quite pronounced on the part of students.

Functions of the socio-psychological service at the university

What help do students need from the socio-psychological service? The largest percentage of the total number of respondents pointed to personal and emotional reasons. This is assistance in studying one’s abilities, character traits and behavior (36.9%), advice on relieving stressful conditions and psychological overload (32.3%), receiving advice in the field of personal life (friendship, love, creating a family, family relationships ( 30.8%), as well as the acquisition of communication skills (22.9%) There were no significant differences in the answers by courses and gender, except for the need to receive advice on relieving stress, psychological overload (boys - 21.4%, girls - 42.0%).

A separate block presents the need for assistance in resolving conflict situations with classmates (5.4%), dormitory mates (6.7%), university teachers and administration (13.9%). A rather high proportion of conflicts that take place, according to students, between them and the teaching staff, as well as the administration of the university, causes concern. The problem of the emotional and psychological state of students seems to be extremely relevant and should be the subject of a special scientific study. It is required to develop practical methods for its solution in the system of higher education.

The effectiveness of the institution of curators and educators

Despite a number of positive trends that have taken shape in recent years in the organization of educational work in higher education, the institution of curators and educators still does not provide the proper educational impact on student youth. Thus, 14.5% of the respondents indicated insufficient attention to themselves from teachers, curators, and educators. This is due to a number of reasons, including the lack of a regulated status of the curator of the student group, and, consequently, the corresponding attitude on the part of teachers to the role of the curator; the lack of proper psychological and pedagogical training of curators and educators of hostels to work with students; high workload of teachers with training sessions and the need to look for additional sources of income due to low wages.

A significant weakening of the position of curators and their educational impact on students led to a change in the status of the academic group. This is confirmed not only by the results of this survey, where 20.3% of students attributed “disorganization, disunity of my student group” to the number of significant problems in student life, but also by our studies using sociometric methods of the level of development of relationships in the academic groups of the university. The results obtained indicate a significant decline in the role of the academic group in the lives of students, which inevitably entails a number of negative trends, including the loss of a sense of collectivism and mutual assistance, and the growth of individualism tendencies. Increasing the authority of the curator and the academic group with the aim of influencing the personal development of student youth should be considered one of the important tasks of the educational work of the university.

Among the problems that arise during the student years are the care of one's own family (10.1%). The creation of a family, the establishment of a family life, the birth of a child and caring for him, combined, as a rule, with the final stage of education, requires not only significant mental, physical and material costs, but also the proper level of readiness to ensure the most difficult social role of a family man. What is the attitude of students towards marriage and creating a family during the student period? Analysis of the results of our study showed that only 12.3% of all respondents expressed a negative attitude towards marriage. With a general positive attitude towards marriage, 58.4% of the respondent consider it possible, subject to material security. 11.1% of the respondents allow marriage under forced circumstances, and about the same number (11.8%) have a positive attitude towards the idea of marriage, regardless of any circumstances.

Student years are happy… It is considered so because it is the time of youth, the first true love, meeting true friends… the first school of adult independent life. Someone skips this period, immediately after school goes to work, gaining knowledge, when faced with the problem of raising the career ladder, then looking for an opportunity to buy a diploma of higher education; this happens for various reasons: it didn’t work out right away, and then didn’t want to, difficult financial situation, confidence in their self-educational level, etc. Everyone has their own life path, but those who are lucky enough to become a student will have to face a number of problems. Here are the top ten.

1. How can you live on a scholarship?!

When you get it, sometimes you start to envy the “payers”, because they don’t have to worry about the question of what to spend these crumbs on. However, if you set yourself the goal of acquiring something worthwhile (provided that relatives help with money for existence), then it is possible without withdrawing a scholarship for six months or a year and adding the money earned in the summer, then it is quite possible to carry out the plan.

2. Sleep deprivation.

And it's not always the education that's to blame. The student spends nights at the computer, on social networks, in a noisy company with classmates. And in the morning, completely broken, he comes to lectures and swears that today he will go to bed early, in extreme cases, sleep off at the weekend. But, if you live in a student hostel, then this is absolutely impossible.

3. Session.

From session to session, students live happily, and then, SUDDENLY, exams come. The student in recent days is trying to catch up on everything lost, instead of systematically preparing for the exam from day to day. Remember that you went to study not because your parents forced you, but this is your deliberate choice of a future profession, so you should take a responsible approach to your studies throughout the semester.

4. Where can I find food?

Even if you know how to cook, after a hard day at school it’s hard to find the strength to cook, most likely you will get off with fast food, but you won’t last long on such food. You can ask for a visit or starve. The most effective way is to cook food for the future, then the next day it remains only to warm it up. You can arrange kitchen duty with your roommates, then this is a sure way not to stay hungry.

5. Where to go to have fun?

Student life is complete freedom, everyone manages it in their own way. The student's leisure is full of entertainment - these are clubs, bars, cinemas, billiards, etc. Depending on financial capabilities and personal interests.

6. Parents or "everything secret becomes clear."

You messed up and are now worried in anticipation of the reaction of your parents. The worst thing that can upset your parents is failure. However, there are no hopeless situations. You can agree with the curator on a delay and within a couple of weeks to prove that you are able to improve. All in your hands.

7. Search for love.

Learning feelings is not a hindrance, although some are so carried away by a loved one, dissolve in it and forget about the true purpose of entering a university. Do not lose your head, think about your future.

8. Cribs.

They are a must for any student. Absolutely everyone writes them, but not everyone uses them. It is a well-known fact that simply writing cheat sheets can prepare you well for the exam, because you process information, choose the main thing and take notes.

9. I want the same.

More often this problem concerns the female. I want to dress like that classmate over there, but how not to merge into the crowd, to remain an individual. You need to learn how to choose the same style, but with something that stands out, maybe add an accessory to the outfit. The main thing is that it suits you perfectly.

10. White crow.

Not everyone accepts your passion? Do not pay attention, continue to do what you love, when it starts to bring the first successes, you will see how quickly the attitude of classmates towards you will change for the better. Be yourself!

E. V. Milkova

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts

social problems of students (on the example of students of the Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts)

Youth is a special socio-demographic group experiencing a period of social maturity, whose position is determined by the socio-economic state of society. Social problems arising in society also concern student youth.

Social problems - conditions of life leading to social reactions that violate some human values, the social well-being of a person. The causes of social problems can be environmental (situational), personal (associated with individual characteristics), activity (due to personal activity, activity).

The need to solve the social problems of youth (student youth) in our country and abroad has been discussed for many years by scientific theorists and practitioners, such as Kholostova E.I., Kuznetsov V.N., Pavlenok P.D., Lisovsky V.T. ., Kon I. S., Likhachev B. T., Berggren K., Bernaskoni A., Pitre P., Osborne M., Llaid M., etc. Each scientist determined his own vision of problems from the standpoint of pedagogy, sociology, psychology, as well as social protection.

How modern youth is defined, who belongs to student youth, scientists see differently. Levikova S. I., Darvish O. B., Timoshina N. V., Ivanova G. Yu., Ilyina E. P., Laptenok S. D. and others agree that the boundaries of youth age are mobile. They are characterized, on the one hand, as a favorable time for creating a family, on the other hand, as the need for professional self-determination, on the third hand, as a definition of attitude to public life and one's role in it.

Here there is a need to say something about student youth. "Student" is literally "working hard, studying." Student youth is a special category, a specific community of people organizationally united by the institution of higher education.

While studying at the university, the basis of labor and professional activity is firmly formed. The teacher faces a responsible psychological and pedagogical task - the formation of a student as a subject of educational activity, which implies, first of all, the need to teach him the ability to plan, organize, analyze his activities.

Social psychologist Shevandrin N. I. believes: “In a student environment, a person quickly learns a stereotype of behavior in public places, etiquette, a certain vocabulary.”

Rubin B. G., Kolesnikov Yu. S. distinguish five groups of students:

Students who seek to acquire knowledge, methods of independent work, acquire professional skills, etc.;

Students who seek to acquire knowledge in all areas of educational activities;

Students who show interest only in their profession;

Students who do well in school but are selective about the curriculum;

Students are lazy and lazy.

Khanzhin E.V. believes that “a student as a person of a certain age and as a person can be characterized from three sides:

From the psychological (the unity of psychological processes, states and personality traits);

With social (public relations, qualities generated by the student's belonging to a certain social group, nationality, etc.);

From the biological (type of higher nervous activity, instincts, unconditioned reflexes, physique, height, etc.) ".

In addition to external similarity, the association of students into a mass social group is determined by age, learning environment, general problems associated with the organization and content of studies, anxiety about future employment, the nature of the upcoming professional activity, etc.

“The policy implemented by the state,” writes Reprintseva G.I., “has led to the fact that student youth, as the most educated and at the same time the most “problematic” part of the population, found themselves in the circle of their own social problems.” For this reason, we can talk about student youth as a social group that requires the closest attention from the state, whose activities should be aimed at solving the existing social problems. Social problems are the inability to satisfy one's social needs, such as material well-being, prosperity, education, medical care, etc.

“From a pedagogical point of view,” Yu. G. Volkov notes, “the period of intense social change is characterized by two trends: the first is the development of new social forces, the second is negative social phenomena.” Confirming this fact, we can say that these two contradictory trends have led to the emergence of a number of problems that must be addressed by all subjects of education and upbringing and modern pedagogical science.

Thus, according to social political scientists (N. A. Volgina, T. S. Sulimova), the following social problems of student youth arise: social vulnerability of young people in the labor sphere, unemployment (youth is the first to be laid off and makes up 38% of all unemployed); lack of demand for young people with secondary and higher education (the most prestigious is work in the field of trade, intermediary activities); lag of the level of education from the modern level of the most developed countries.

In addition to the above problems, S. I. Levikova highlights the decline in the prestige of vocational education, the unpreparedness of higher, professional and secondary school personnel to work in new conditions, a weak material and technical base, etc. Yusupova N. V. says that among the main problems are dominated by a large outflow of talented youth abroad, low wages, scholarships, difficulties with secondary employment, lack of high-quality inexpensive goods, a reduction in the material base for organizing cultural leisure for young people, etc.

Based on the analysis of the existing definitions of student youth from the point of view of psychology, pedagogy, sociology, philosophy, it can be concluded that several approaches to the analysis of students have developed in domestic science:

Students as a socio-demographic group;

Students as a socio-professional group;

Students as a special social group.

Thus, students are a social group of society, consisting of young people of approximately the same basic education and age, distinguished by similar forms of organization of life, a common focus on obtaining the necessary

dim professional knowledge. Consequently, this stratum of the country's population has approximately the same social problems.

Having studied and analyzed the scientific literature of such authors as S. N. Ikonnikova, V. T. Lisovsky, A. A. Kozlov, O. I. Karpukhin, Yu. S. Kolesnikov, B. G. Rubin, T. E. Petrova , E. G. Slutsky, A. S. Vatoropina, Yu. R. Vishnevsky, V. T. Shapko, V. F. Pugach and others who studied student youth, it is possible to determine the classification of methods for identifying social problems of students.

The system method manifests itself in the fact that the analyzed object is considered as a certain set of elements, the relationship of which determines the integral properties of this set.

The concrete historical method is manifested in the fact that the study is carried out in the aspect of changes and trends due to a specific stage in the development of society, the changing role of students in the processes of the country's socio-economic development.

The statistical method is manifested in the analysis and study of a large amount of empirical data obtained in the course of processing the results of sociological research.

The method of comparative analysis is used to study the state of the situation of students in the Soviet period and at the present time in the study of the state of their socio-economic position.

In the process of identifying the social problems of students, using the above methods, “problem” indicators appear, which, from the point of view of an employee of the Russian State Social University Sorokina E.S., reflect the social reality of modern student youth:

Education (covers the intellectual activity of the student, his self-realization, self-education, competitiveness in the labor market, etc.);

Family (includes relationships both with the older generation, and as a spouse or parent, etc.);

Health (determines general well-being, dependence on drugs, the frequency and variety of diseases and their forms, etc.);

Income (shows the economic situation, sources of income, average monthly earnings, etc.);

Social well-being (determines a person's place in society, his status, the degree of his realization as a person and as a participant in social relations, etc.);

Value orientations (reflection in the mind of a person of values recognized by him as strategic life goals);

Life strategies and attitudes (shows life goals, means to achieve them);

Social activity (reflects the social activity of a person and the degree of its usefulness).

Speaking about modern students, it is necessary to single out such a concept as "the quality of life of student youth", without a definition of which it is impossible to clearly understand the current student problems and ways to solve them.

Scientists Basova V. M., Volkov Yu. G., Genaev R. T., Darvish L. D., Kolkov V. V., Stolyarenko L. D., Tkachenko A. A., Shubkin V. N. , investigating the quality of life of students in their works, define it through various characteristics. Satisfaction with one's own life, one's social status, level of education, which is determined by a number of economic, social, demographic, political and other factors and determines the physical, mental, socio-cultural development of student youth.

Student youth is one of the most socially vulnerable segments of the population. This is also proved by the fact that the scientific interests of students are constantly turning to the study of the social problems of young people, in which the quality of life is a fundamental factor.

So, in 2006-2008 academic years, students of the Department of Social Pedagogy Belyaeva N., Eliseeva A., Longe T., Saidbekova K. and others devoted their coursework to identifying social problems of students and developing ways to solve them.

So, Belyaeva N. in 2006 conducted a pilot study through a questionnaire to study social problems and the quality of life of students of Kem-GUKI.

The main stages of the survey:

1) preparation of students (explaining the goals of our study), establishing interpersonal contact;

2) conducting a survey;

3) calculation of the results and presentation of the obtained data in graphical form.

The questionnaire consists of 14 questions, each of which contains 3 possible answers,

one of which is the students' own opinion

Respondents in the amount of 84 people were students of the SP, as well as 16 students of the FRAI.

To the first question, “Do you drink alcohol?” 54 people answered that they “use, but very rarely/rarely”; 21 - "do not use at all"; 11 - "on holidays"; 14 - "once a week".

To the second question, “Have you tried drugs?” 82 people answered that they “have not tried”; "tried" - 18 people.

To the third question “Do you have your own income?”: “yes” - 49 people; "no" - 51.

“Are you financially dependent on your parents or other relatives?”; "yes" - 81 people; "no" - 19 respondents.

“Are you confident in successful employment after graduation?”; "no" - 69 people; "yes" - 20; “I don't know” - 11 respondents.

“Are you satisfied with your level of material wealth?”; "yes" - 17 respondents; "no" - 44 people; "not very" - 13; "when how" - 12 people; "partially" - 11; “not quite, sometimes” - 3 respondents.

"Do you have health problems?"; "absolutely healthy" - 10 people; “sometimes there are complaints” - 58 people (overwhelming majority); “I get sick very often” -32 respondents.

“Are you satisfied with the class schedule this semester?”; "yes" - 39 people; "no" -47 respondents; "no way out" - 14 people.

“Are you satisfied with the work of the wardrobe of the university?”; "suitable" - 55 people; “not satisfied” - 25; "not always" 20 - person.

“Are you satisfied with the quality and cost of dishes in the dining room?”; "yes" - 31 people; "no" -53 respondents; "very expensive" - 16 people.

“Are you satisfied with the work of the university library?”; "yes" - 46 people; "no" - 39 people"; “not always, not quite” - 15 respondents.

“Are you satisfied with the living conditions in the hostel?”; "yes" - 24 people; "no" - 27 people; “it suits, but it is expensive to pay for a hostel” - 22 respondents; “arranges, but does not let guests, friends through” - 8 people; 19 students surveyed do not live in a hostel.

“What question would you like to ask the administration of our university?”: “Are you interested in our desires?”, “When will all this end?”, “Why is social and academic

scholarships are not combined?”, why don’t they pay higher scholarships to excellent students?”, “why is the activity of the university so badly organized, no one knows anything?”, the most common question is: “when will the scholarship be increased?”

To the question "Are you satisfied with the quality of education at the university?": "yes" - 58 people; "no" - 19 respondents; "average quality of education" - 18 respondents; “I will find out when I will get a job after graduation” - 5 people.

In general, summing up the research work, the author notes the fact that today's student youth have a large number of social problems that in the conditions of the university should and can be solved by self-government bodies together with the educational and social departments of the university.

The following study of interest was conducted by Eliseeva A. on the basis of the Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts among teachers and students of the Department of Social Pedagogy, where the following methods were used:

1. Questionnaire WHOQOL - 100 (World Health Organization quality of life - 100 questions, 2003), where 5 groups of students were studied: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 courses of 12 people each. The goal is to trace the dynamics of changes in the quality of life of a student at the initial, middle and final stages of education at the university.

2. Questioning, where 5 groups of students were studied: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 courses, 12 people in each. The goal is to identify the social problems of student youth and the possibilities of solving them through the eyes of the students themselves.

3. A survey reflecting the activities of curators in the prevention and elimination of these problems. The survey involved teachers of the Department of Social Pedagogy.

The following results were obtained during the study:

1. indicators of the quality of life of students: (Questionnaire WHOQOL - 100)

Number of people in %

study groups

High quality of life

Poor quality of life:

1 course - 10%; 2 course - 10%; 3 course - 20%; 4 course - 20%; 5 course - 20%.

Average quality of life:

1 course - 30%; 2 course - 40%; 3 course - 30%; 4 course - 50%; 5 course - 60%.

High quality of life:

1 course - 60%; 2 course - 50%; 3 course - 50%; 4 course - 30%; 5 course - 20%.

This trend is due to the following: if in the 1st and 2nd years the student is characterized by isolation from parental supervision, but at the same time material support from the parents, then in the 3rd year the process of autonomization from parents begins, their own families are created, and the need for independent earnings appears. At the 4th and 5th courses, the student's personal development is completed: he acquires new social roles, even greater separation from his parents, self-sufficiency. Each of these stages is characterized by material, social, psychological, physiological problems, where the ability to overcome them determines the quality of life.

2. Actual social problems of students and their solution:

All students attributed material difficulties to actual problems, in addition:

1 course - low provision of educational literature; disorganization of free time; 2 course - low provision of benefits, lack of free time and rest; 3 course - undeveloped and unsystematic in the educational work of health-saving technologies, due to workload - the impossibility of additional earnings; 4 course - lack of housing / poor living conditions, lack of organization of leisure; 5 course - difficulties in finding employment, lack of housing.

Ways to solve social problems can be differentiated based on the analysis of the results of the study:

1st year: changing the state policy in the field of material support of students; understanding on the part of teachers of working students; replenishment of the library with the necessary literature for training (even 1 copy); organization of events for leisure and creative activities of students; pay more attention to the real problems of students;

2 course: joint activity of students, teachers, rector, specialists in solving social problems of students; material support of students; real, not paper activities of specialists; everything is in the hands of the students themselves; there are no solutions;

3 course: increase in funding of the university; understanding by teachers of working students; providing students with free vouchers to sanatoriums, for medical procedures; providing free tickets to cinemas, theaters, exhibitions; student government;

4 course: competent state policy; material support; understanding the problems of students; improving the living conditions of students, lowering interest rates for mortgage lending to students; real, not paper work of specialists; pay attention to the social policy of other universities; everything is in the hands of the students themselves; nothing depends on the opinion of the student;

5 course: meetings with employers; affordability of housing for young people; salary increase for young professionals; the opportunity to get a job with a minimum experience or without it; change in intra-university policy; nothing depends on the opinion of the students.

The conducted survey shows that the problems cover all aspects of a student's life (material, psychological, physiological, professional, etc.), the issue of eliminating which should be actively addressed at the Federal, regional, regional and intrauniversity levels.

2. Through the survey, the identified areas of activity of curators can be represented as follows:

Tracking student progress;

Assistance in the transfer of excellent students from a paid form of education to a budget one;

Tracking the timely provision of students with the necessary benefits;

Assistance to students in getting into a hostel;

Examination of the housing conditions of students living in a hostel;

Interaction with the commandant of the hostel and specialists of the department for educational and social work with students;

Communication with parents of students or persons replacing them;

Consultative - psychological - organizational assistance;

Individual and group work with students;

Keeping track of student employment;

Assistance in obtaining financial assistance, in the preparation of tuition fees in installments and tuition subsidies.

These studies confirm that the work of curators is necessary and important in identifying the social problems of student youth and helping to solve them.

Of interest are the ways of solving student problems of the university, prescribed by student-researchers. They propose to do the following with the help of students, together with the teaching staff and administrative structures, with the involvement of specialists. For example, in one work, these are recommendations for the administration, for the social department on creating conditions for solving the identified problems. Another author has developed a model for the adaptation of university and university students to students through the work of services (for example, services for working with student families, with students in need of state support, as well as services for organizing student leisure, the work of the labor exchange for students, the legal service and the service health care, etc.). Each service has a substantive characteristic (purpose, directions, methods and forms of work). The desire of students to independently solve their problems pleases, because it speaks of a formed active position in them. The third proposes to form an interuniversity coordinating council of students dealing with youth problems.

At the same time, the above material invites all participants in the educational process of the university to think about creating a comfortable atmosphere of interaction and relationships, which will help overcome the social problems of student youth and productive work and study.

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