In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national innovation economy. The principal difference last year...

Last year, the subject of innovation development formed one of the top public policy priorities. That manifested itself in the rise of new initiatives on support of university research, development of interaction between science and business, and encouragement of the latter's innovation...

The federal budget for 2013 and the planning period 2014-2015 has already been given the label ‘anti-social': the rising volume of budget allocations to the ‘guns' brings down that of allocations to ‘butter' – including ‘educational butter.'

The competitive edge of national economic systems is largely determined by the activities of higher education institutions. In the modern world, universities carry out not only educational functions, but also generate actively new knowledge and innovations. Both in industrially developed...

The reform of higher education in Russia, based on standardized tests and educational vouchers, was intended to reduce inequalities in access to higher education. The initiative with the vouchers has failed and by now is already forgotten while the national test is planned to be introduced...

It was generally assumed that high standards of education, both general and vocational, represented an important advantage of the Soviet political system. This consideration was rather true to the conditions inherent in the industrial society

This paper represents the series of working papers for RANEPA Master of Global Public Policy academic programme. Author discuss current situation in Russian higher education and propose two policy decisions aimed on improvement of quality of higher education in Russia. The first one is changing...

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...