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Education-related (Study-related) Migration of the Graduates of the Secondary School: Causes and Motives (the Case of Yaroslavl region)

S.A. Baburkin, S.L. Talanov, В.В. Алешин

UDC 325-028.42

https://doi.org/10.20339/AM.08-21.024          

 

S.A. Baburkin is Dr. Sci. (Political Science), Prof., Head of the Department of Social and Political studies at Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University n.a. K.D. Ushinsky e-mail: baburkin@mail.ru; S.L. Talanov is Cand.Sci. (Sociology), Ass. Prof., Senior Researcher at the Sector for Sociology of Deviant Behavior at Federal Scientific Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) e-mail: talanov_sergei@mail.ru; V.V. Aleshin is PhD student at Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University n.a. K.D. Ushinsky e-mail: aleshin_vladislav@lenta.ru

Analyzed are the causes and peculiarities of the student migration from and within Yaroslav region. It is stated that the majority of school leavers from small and middlesized towns strive to enter universities in the big city of Yaroslavl (the regional center). At the same time the study has revealed that applicants from lowlevel income families try to enroll on a budget at universities of their own city. Applicants from families with middlesized income try to enroll in the universities of a more developed city. Applicants from families with high income seek to enroll in universities of Moscow and St. Petersburg or universities of Europe, USA and China. The authors have stated that the students of high schools are oriented to resources of their families and elaborate their educational and professional strategies out of real possibilities, not their wishes. The study shows that the more resources a family has the more children are attached to the opinions of their parents. As in depths interview show, the parents develop educational and professional trajectories of their children out of family resources. While elaborating professional trajectory of their children, some parents follow ethnic and national traditions and gender stereotypes regarding the roles of women and men in the labor market. The COVID-19 pandemic corrected significantly plans of low and middlesized families. Applicants prefer not to enter universities in case they cannot be enrolled on a budget. The measures are suggested to keep the most capable part of the youth in the region and attract young people from other parts of the Russian Federation.

Key words: human resources, universities, student migration, school leavers, applicants, educational strategies.

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