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Adopting a Bourdieusian perspective, human capital of research team in the paper is understood as the configuration of the active properties of individual team's members and the distribution of differences of their active properties. The paper describes a research team as an ensemble of social...
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The paper discusses the results of a survey devoted to the role of research grants for the modern Russian academic community. Researchers' motives to apply for grants, the strategies used in grant contests, the factors decisive for grant success are presented. Also the extent of Russian...
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In Russia, resources available for higher education institutions (HEIs) have been reduced while the expectations of their results have grown. This raises questions about the efficiency of Russian HEIs and the factors influencing it. In this paper, estimations of the efficiency of Russian HEIs...
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Vocational schools are involved in partnerships with employers to generate extra resources and in the implementation of high-stake accountability reforms in Russia. We examine school capacity in the top-down implementation of performance-related pay (PRP) in Russia. We consider two cases of...
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-based funding (PBF) reform to provide a quasi-experimental assessment of its effects on Russian universities' performance. Data … distinguishing universities on the basis of the trend in their performance-based allocations. In a second step, we estimated the … causal effect of the redistribution of public funds across universities as a result of PBF policy. Results indicate that the …
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This article considers the uneven positions of school teachers in different regions of the Russian Federation. There exist numerous research works on the relation of school teachers' salaries to the characteristics of regional educational systems and regional economies. A range of indicators is...
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structure of universities located in the Central Federal District (CFD). The results evidence a change in financial support from … university support programs aimed at enhancing the academic and research capacity of the leading Russian universities and … using statistical and economic analysis, comparing the income structures of different groups of universities and their cost …
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This paper studies the relationship between university institutional autonomy (both formal and informal) and their performance and efficiency using multi-stage empirical methodology. First, we measure an “autonomy-in-use” index, and then we employ Data Envelopment Analysis in order to...
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Education systems across the world are experiencing significant transformations. Grassroots innovators play an important role in these changes. To stimulate the development of grassroots innovations it is important to understand the mechanisms that underlie their creation. This paper...
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Numerical information can be represented in three formats: two symbolic (visual (digits) and verbal (number words)) and one nonsymbolic (analog) format. Studies have shown that the precision of symbolic numerical representation is associated with math performance. The precision of symbolic...
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