Russian Companies and Higher Education

Author(s): Tatiana Kastueva-Jean
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: 8-10
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

During the period of transition from Soviet to market economy, Russian companies became profoundly disinterested in cooperation with universities. This trend is reversing progressively under the influence of two factors: firstly, a lack of highly skilled personnel in the country and, secondly, the higher education reforms initiated by the Government since the mid-2000s.

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