Free and paid higher education in Russia: dynamics, role and evaluation

Edouard V. Minko,

professor,

Saint-Petersburg state university of aerospace instrumentation

Anton E. Minko,

Ph.D., head of department training and support,

Ekis France SAS company (toulouse, france)

E-mail: minkospb@yandex.ru  

Elaborated are organizational and methodological peculiarities of free and paid higher education in market economy of Russia. Statistics is cited, reflecting ratio of the named types of education, incl. high schools abroad. Existing structure of VPO in Russia is also analyzed. Shown are both negative and positive sides of paid higher education.

Key words: market and transitive economics, sources of financing of higher education, statistics of structure of paid and free higher education, reasons and factors of paid education, minuses and pluses of paid higher education. 

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