55%
of Russians age 25-64 who have a vocational education believe that their current activities partially or fully coincide with the education they received.
At the same time, 38% of respondents said that the education they received does not correspond to what they are doing now. The remainder could not answer unambiguously.
These data were collected during a nationwide representative survey of participation by adults in continuing education. The survey was carried out as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations study conducted by the Higher School of Economics in collaboration the Levada Center in the autumn of 2014. The study examines issues of the population’s involvement in the practice of continuing education, the main motivations for learning and sources of funding. An informational newsletter on the research is planned for publication in 2015.
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53%
of Russian families with children believe that children with disabilities should study with non-disabled children.
1.5
is the number of times by which the salary of teachers in Moscow professional and technical schools must be raised to recruit the ‘ideal teacher’ according to the heads of these institutions.
13%
of full-time students at Russian universities in 2014 had intentions of studying abroad. A year earlier, the figure was 20%.
31%
of professional and vocational schools in Russia are currently not enrolling students for professional education programmes due to a lack of demand.
16
was the increase in the number of working hours per week for teachers at Russian universities in 2014 in comparison with 2013.
33.7%
of ninth grade students whose parents do not have a higher education perform at the A-level or B-level in school.