 The Non-Bypass Trajectory, or The Boom in Demand for TVET in RussiaVera Maltseva and
Alexey Shabalin
Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, 2021, issue 2, 10-42 Abstract: Vera Maltseva, Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Associate Professor, Research Fellow, Center for Vocational Education and Skills Development, Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics. E-mail: vamaltseva@hse.ru (corresponding author)Alexey Shabalin, Expert, Center for Vocational Education and Skills Development, Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics. E-mail: ashabalin@hse.ruAddress: 20 Myasnitskaya Str., 101000 Moscow, Russian Federation.Since the mid‑2010s, Russia has been witnessing a redistribution of student flows between higher education and TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training), more and more school leavers applying to TVET institutions. Postsecondary educational choices are closely associated with socioeconomic status of the family, so changes in the patterns of educational transitions may indicate both changes in the education system and shifts in the national socioeconomic system. In available literature, the growing enrollment in TVET is mostly explained by push factors repulsing students out of secondary and higher education systems and by the so-called bypass maneuver of accessing college via TVET that is popular among Russian school leavers.This article attempts to find out whether the demand for TVET is actually increasing, what may stand behind it apart from the factors within the education system, and whether there is a socioeconomic dimension to this change. Research results allow debunking the myth of the TVET sector growing by virtue of using TVET programs as a springboard to college. Demand for vocational educational trajectoriesis growing beyond the bypass maneuver - not only among middle school graduates, who are at the main fork in educational trajectories, but also among highschool leavers. Changes in the demand for TVET programs has exposed rigidity of the TVET system, which manifests itself in enrollment capacity being unable to satisfy the demand for particular specialization, excessive growth in tuition-based enrollment, and the invisible demand from high school leavers. The increasing popularity of the vocational track results from the mutually reinforcing factors in the education system, negative economic growth, and labor market situation. The most important trigger behind the growing demand for TVET is the shrinkage of household disposable income: coupled with reduced access to higher education, it pushes school leavers with low socioeconomic status out of the academic track. Keywords: bypass maneurer; higher education; postsecondary educational choices; socioeconomic inequality; transit educational trajectory; TVET (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nos:voprob:2021:i:2:p:10-42 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow from National Research University Higher School of Economics |
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