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SOME TERRITORIAL-SECTORAL DIFFERENCES IN THE NON-STATE SECTOR OF HIGHER EDUCATION
T. Prok
The report considers some aspects of the territorial-sector differences in the established organizational system of continuing professional education (hereinafter CPE) of the non-state sector of higher education.
Non-state higher educational institutions differ in terms of: (а) number of higher educational institutions; (b) total number of students in them; (c) student admission and graduation; (d) number of accredited educational programs, areas of training and specialties; (e) number of learners (bachelors and specialists) receiving a state-subsidized education; (f) number of teachers with academic degrees, etc. For example, based on the number of students in non-state higher educational institutions, all regions of the country can be conventionally divided into five groups: (1) regions with a high level of non-state sector of higher education (with more than 50 thousand students); (2) regions with a developed non-state sector of higher education (20-50,000 students); (3) regions with a medium level of development of the non-state sector of higher education (5-20,000 students); (4) regions with a low level of development of the non-state sector (from 1 to 5,000 students); (5) regions with a very low level of development of the non-state sector of higher education (less than 1,000 students). In the studies, the author also referred to building other typologies of the non-state sector of higher education [4; 5].
By the results of the monitoring of the Ministry of Education and Science of the RF, there were 446 non-state higher educational institutions and 661 branches in the Russian Federation registered as of December 7, 2012. According to the results of the monitoring, only 29 higher educational institutions (all accredited ones) and 42 branches (41 accredited) out of 70 higher educational institutions (67 accredited) and 97 branches (72 accredited) included in the sampling were considered effective [2]. At the same time, we think that the structure of the indicators of the state monitoring of non-state higher educational institutions should be supplemented with indicators of regional effectiveness, as the higher educational institutions of this sector are mostly oriented towards the regional market of training of specialists, and interact with the labor market at a regional level. Such an approach might change the assessment of the activities for the better.
One should note the great positive role of the non-state sector of higher education in smoothing out the numerous regional disparities in the territorial-sector structure of the Russian system of education in general and regional systems of CPE in particular. For example, non-state higher educational institutions of a humanitarian and creative specialization in technocratic cities and regions substantially reduce the internal migration of talented young people who used to leave for Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other cities to enter higher educational institutions, and never came back.
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Translated from Russian by Znanije Central Translations Bureau
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