Challenges facing higher education in Russia in 2015

Tatiana Klyachko
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Abstract: The following public’s common perception of higher education continues to be prevalent in Russia: the quality of higher education keeps deteriorating; higher education fails to meet the requirements of the labor market; higher education graduates do not work in jobs strictly or closely related to their degrees or major; there is an oversupply of students in the country; there is need to train specialists with secondary vocational education and blue collar workers that are in shortage.

Keywords: Russian economy; higher education; vocational education; job skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 I25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2016, Revised 2016
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Published in RUSSIAN ECONOMY IN 2015 TRENDS AND OUTLOOKS (ISSUE 37)

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