Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:Klyachko Tatiana 
Author-Name-First: Tatiana 
Author-Name-Last:Klyachko 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Title: Challenges facing higher education in Russia in 2015
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.
Classification-JEL: I21, I23, I25
Keywords:  Russian economy, higher education, vocational education, job skills
Creation-Date: 2016
Revision-Date:2016
Publication-Status: Published in RUSSIAN ECONOMY IN 2015  TRENDS AND OUTLOOKS  (ISSUE 37)
Length: 12 pages
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2016-248.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Function: Revised version, 2016
Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2016-248