A comparison of education systems in the USA, Western Europe, China, and modern Russia, shows that urgent reform of Russian universities is necessary. Based on the well-known theory of inferior goods, the author concludes that a large segment of Russian higher education either offers services of...

The article recognizes that the knowledge society and the economics of knowledge have considerably changed the demands placed on education. The teaching of concrete subjects is now combined with a general emphasis on general intellectual development and the stimulation of creativity and...

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The article deals with the problems of restructuring state"funded higher education institutions. The authors argue for the necessity to take into account the economic potential of a college when changing its status to that of an autonomous institution. To evaluate this characteristic, the...

Author analyses different critical arguments - left-wing and conservative - on the educational standards for high school and proves that now it is rational to return to traditional Russian and European education with three main types of schools: humanitarian gymnasiums, gymnasiums of natural...

The article evaluates the results of the transformation of the Russian higher education system in the 1990s and considers the ongoing processes that are characteristic of the systems present development. The authors argue that institutional transformations in this sphere should be given a higher...

The article presents a comprehensive view on current problems in the professional development of teachers, estimates the potential in this sphere, and describes the principal directions in the reforming of the professional development system.

The author analyzes the positions of the Peoples Comissariat of Education of Soviet Russia (the Bolshevik Education Ministry) and of the Public Education Ministry of Kolchaks government during the Civil War in Russia. These positions are analyzed in the context of their connection with the...