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Higher Education in Russia: Highly Available, Less Accessible
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Malinovskiy Sergey, Shibanova Ekaterina
Language:
English
In book
Issue 8. , Washington: Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement (CIGE), 2019.
Lukina A., Tolstykh D., Экономическая социология 2026 Т. 27 № 1 С. 153–193
Amidst the ongoing crisis of social mobility and pronounced differentiation within the Russian higher education sector, investigating perceptions of inequality and mobility experiences among socially disadvantaged groups becomes particularly relevant. This study analyzes patterns of subjective upward mobility and stratification beliefs among first-generation students (FGS) — individuals without familial experience of higher education — compared ...
Added: January 20, 2026
Ananin D., Комаров Р. В., Реморенко И. М., Высшее образование в России 2025 Т. 34 № 2 С. 31–50
The issue of using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in education is the focus of both its advocates and critics. The world academic community is trying to consider the rapidly spreading phenomenon, to determine its place in the educational process and to work out the regulatory framework. The application of GenAI-powered services changes conceptual and didactic ...
Added: November 18, 2025
Panova A., Victoria Slepykh, Higher Education Quarterly 2025 Vol. 79 No. 4 Article e70077
The impact of academic inbreeding on research productivity remains unclear. This study examines a critical yet often overlooked distinction: How the link between inbreeding and publication activity differs when academics' primary focus is teaching versus research. Focusing on highly productive Russian PhD holders, our findings reveal a complex picture. For research-focused academics, inbreeding is related ...
Added: October 28, 2025
Lisitskaya T., Taranov P., Ugnich E. et al., Quality and Quantity 2024 Vol. 58 No. 1 P. 365–383
It is rather easy to identify the leading universities in a country, there are different established methods and indicators of excellence. Generally, it is more challenging to find ‘the second best’ universities which have the potential to become leaders, ‘the firsts’. In Russia, such an attempt has been made. The program of ‘Pillar Universities’ was ...
Added: June 15, 2023
Атсйор Г. А., Высшее образование в России 2023 Vol. 32 No. 3 P. 153–166
Added: June 2, 2023
Sergey Malinovskiy, Shibanova E., Movkebayeva Z., Disability and Society 2024 Vol. 39 No. 9 P. 2258–2280
This research investigates the barriers and facilitators of access to higher education for disabled students in Kazakhstan, based on 23 biographical-narrative interviews with undergraduate students. Despite the broad regulatory framework, support institutions for disabled persons are not sufficiently enforced and are not internalised in regular practice in Kazakhstan. Students with disabilities are unaware of actual ...
Added: April 28, 2023
Sergey M., Shibanova E., М.: НИУ ВШЭ, 2022.
After achieving mass participation in tertiary education, Russia faced a new challenge: how to turn educational expansion into equality of educational opportunities. Relative enrollment in tertiary education has stabilized, while the increase in the number of places in higher education has been unevenly distributed: across population groups, across universities, and across regions. Despite the expansion ...
Added: January 27, 2023
Sergey M., Shibanova E., Социологический журнал 2022 Т. 28 № 3 С. 8–37
The structural consolidation of the higher education network, a diminishing commercial segment, and an increase in vocational training enrollment over the past decade are all signs that higher education expansion in Russia has come to an end. The aim of this article is to find possible explanations and analyze macro-level factors of this phenomenon from an ...
Added: September 29, 2022
К. А. Адамович, Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2022 № 1(167) С. 116–142
This study examines regional differences in educational trajectories of Russian school students after 9th grade, as well as the dynamics of these differences in 2000-2017. The regional differences in the share of academic track students increased during the observed period. Using the dynamic time warping algorithm for cluster analysis, three types of regional situations were ...
Added: September 1, 2022
Shchemeleva I., Smirnova N. V., , in: International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Academic English in Turbulent Times.: Routledge, 2022. Ch. 19 P. 232–244.
Added: August 13, 2022
Rotar O., / Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2022. No. 65.
Research on Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and their effect on the development of the higher education (HE) sector has expanded over the last ten years. However, little is known about the determinants of MOOC adoption by academics. This study tests a proposed model that integrates individual and institutional level determinants of MOOC authorship. ...
Added: June 14, 2022
Sergey M., Shibanova E., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2022 № 1 С. 176–203
Expansion and the growing role of higher education in determining life outcomes highlight the issue of its provision as a part of state welfare and redistribution policy. This article employs the critical review method and analyzes research on higher education in welfare state regimes. The article addresses research gaps and perspectives in studying higher education ...
Added: March 14, 2022
Suchkova S., Kuznetsova L., Belyaeva E. et al., , in: Englishization of higher education in Europe.: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
The dissemination of English and the role it plays in Russian higher education are connected with its internationalization - the process that has been gaining momentum over the recent decades spurred by a number of top-down and bottom-up initiatives. The role of English in university teaching and research is illustrated by the analysis of open ...
Added: December 6, 2021
Routledge, 2021.
This chapter is aimed at providing insights into main engagement and disengagement factors in international doctoral students (IDS) experiences at Russian universities. Following the Tinto’s model of student departure, we look at two domains of IDS integration - social and academic. Based on data from 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with IDS in three Russian universities ...
Added: October 15, 2021
Shibanova E., Malinovskiy S., European Journal of Higher Education 2021 Vol. 11 No. 3 P. 273–291
This research explores the interrelations of higher education and welfare state models in the USSR of the 1960-1980s and Russia of the 2000-2020s. We first address the extent to which the provision of higher education aligns with the key imperatives of welfare redistribution: eligibility, state-market balance, and equality. Second, we schematize the values – instrumental, ...
Added: June 29, 2021
Smirnova N. V., Guseva A., , in: Emerging Writing Research from the Russian Federation.: WAC Clearinghouse, University Press, Colorado, 2021. Ch. 5 P. 69–98.
In this chapter, we explore how writing has been taught in the domain of art history in Russia. We draw on academic literacy theory and work from two major premises: a) writing is a type of social practice and b) writing is closely linked with the knowledge-making practices in a discipline. We employed semi-structured interviews ...
Added: March 18, 2021
Melikyan A., Вопросы статистики 2021 Т. 28 № 1 С. 38–49
The article presents the results of a study based on statistical methods for analyzing trends in the Russian higher education system over the five-year period preceding the global crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19. This study is one of the first attempts at a large-scale analysis of the growth rates of the performance indicators ...
Added: February 21, 2021
Abankina I., Abankina T., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2020 Т. 47 № 3 С. 205–214
The article analyzes the existing differentiation in the consumption of benefits in higher education. It is substantiated that there is a deep differentiation of access to higher education in the areas of training depending on the income of families. The high level of science and computer science training and the ability of families to pay ...
Added: October 14, 2020