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Field of Higher Education Research, Russia

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Study on higher education

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Scholarship related to the study of higher education in the Russian Federation.

As in most countries, the development of the field of higher education research in Russia has been associated with the massification and expansion of higher education (Teichler 2015). In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), higher education had already reached the mass stage, which is over 15% of age cohort by Trow’s classification (1973), in the 1960s. At that time, it included in absolute terms two million of students (Smolentseva 2017a). That called for the collection and analysis of data to be used in social planning and higher education policy-making. Research on higher education has been developing along with the division of research in the country – between the Academy of Sciences, higher education institutions, and sectoral research under the corresponding ministries. However, current lack of an institutional basis for higher education...

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Smolentseva, A. (2020). Field of Higher Education Research, Russia. In: Teixeira, P.N., Shin, J.C. (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8905-9_189

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