Education Reform in Russia

Author(s): Ivan Kurilla
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 137
Pages: 2-4
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2013

Recent reforms have muddled the Russian education system. They have added bureaucracy, reduced state funding, and threatened to dramatically cut the number of professors. Combined with the radical restructuring of the Academy of Sciences, the changes amount to an assault on the Russian intelligentsia, which so far has been powerless to push back against the onslaught.

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