Teaching Ethics Courses in the System of Higher Education in Russia: Problems and Prospects

The article discusses the ethical and moral education of students in modern Russian high schools. The necessity of strengthening the educational component of the higher education system is noted. To solve the problem, we propose a more active incorporation of the ethical component into training which includes not only the interpretation of professional ethics codes of specialists in different fields of professional activity by students, but also the consideration of the problems of social and ethical issues related to the professional activity and moral assessment of future professional problems as a whole.