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Zhurakovskii, V.; Fedorov, I. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
The level of education of the population of Russia, the scale and traditions of the country's system of education, make it possible for Russia to maintain its ability to compete even at a time when its defense capability is declining, the raw materials component in the economy is rising, and the country is lagging behind in technological and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Professional Education
Kuz'menko, N. E.; Lunin, V. V.; Ryzhova, O. N. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
Anytime that education is modernized, a number of problems come up. These problems include the following: (1) The problem on retaining what is positive in the system as it stands; (2) If something that was useful to society has been lost in education in the preceding years, it will have to be brought back; and (3) The problem on bringing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, State Standards, General Education, Development
Bodrova, Elena – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
The article focuses on the Vygotskian approach to high quality early childhood education in light of the challenges facing early childhood educators in Russia and in the West. One of these challenges is the constant pressure to start teaching academic skills at a progressively younger age at the expense of traditional early childhood activities.…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Davydov, Iu. S. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
This article presents the different opinions of specialists on The Bologna Process. The Bologna Process was brought into being by society's transition to a new stage of development, in which education and knowledge are becoming the decisive engines of progress. With the aim of creating a unified educational space, the Bologna Process was begun in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Quality
Sokolov, V. S. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
It must be acknowledged that the present system of higher education in Russia does not have a system to evaluate the quality of the specialists who are being produced. Three years ago, an order of the education minister approved an appropriate procedure. Seemingly everything is in place: an overall aim, a hierarchical rating system, a structure of…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Criteria, Foreign Countries
Suprunova, L. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
Since the early 1990s, the system of education in Mongolia has gone through radical changes that stem from the country's transition to the market economy and the democratic state structure. Favorable prerequisites were already in place to renovate education on democratic principles, because during the period of its socialist development Mongolia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
Suspitsin, Dmitry; Suspitsyna, Tatiana – European Education, 2007
This study examines the strategies that Russian private colleges and universities use to navigate the legal and normative pressures of the state in the free market of educational services. The tension between state control and free enterprise is analyzed through the prism of legitimacy as it is produced and maintained by the system of quality…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Design, Qualitative Research, Free Enterprise System
Nemtsova, Anna – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
From the top down, says the writer, Russia's universities are impoverished by bribery and insider deals large and small. A new president's dorm at Nizhniy Novgorod is one example of what anti-corruption watchdogs say is widespread mismanagement, and in some cases outright corruption, throughout the country's higher-education system. Presidents use…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality, Social Values
Fried, Jochen; Glass, Anna; Baumgartl, Bernd – Higher Education in Europe, 2006
In November 2005, UNESCO-CEPES organized a conference on Private Higher Education in Europe and Quality Assurance and Accreditation from the Perspective of the Bologna Process Objectives. Thirteen country reports and a comparative analysis study were commissioned for this specific initiative. The countries included in the project were: Albania,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Private Education

Filinov, Nikolay B.; Ruchkina, Svetlana – Higher Education in Europe, 2002
The ranking of higher education institutions in Russia is examined from two points of view: as a social phenomenon and as a multi-criteria decision-making problem. The first point of view introduces the idea of interested and involved parties; the second introduces certain principles on which a rational ranking methodology should be based.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Problems, Foreign Countries
Rotberg, Iris C. – American Education, 1983
Data compiled by Dr. Izaak Wirszup have been used to support claims that the quality of mathematics and science education in the United States is declining. Empirical questions about some of his conclusions indicate that these claims may not be supportable. (NJ)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Curriculum
Zajda, Joseph; Zajda, Rea – European Education, 2007
Prior to 1991, all higher education institutions in the Soviet Union were state institutions. There were some 900 higher educational institutions in 1990, including only 70 major universities, still referred to as VUZy, from the Russian "vysshee uchebnoe zavedenie". This acronym is popularly used to refer to all types of higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Educational Policy, Educational Administration
Seliverstova, I.V. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
In Russia, preschool education, like higher education, is not compulsory, and access to it is not guaranteed by the state. At the same time, "the provision of state guarantees of access to and equal opportunities for acquiring a full-fledged education and achievement of new, up-to-date, high-quality preschool education" has been…
Descriptors: Influences, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries

Pokholkov, Y. P.; Chuchalin, A. I.; Mogilnitsky, S. B. – Higher Education in Europe, 2002
Describes the national accreditation system for higher education institutions in the Russian Federation, including the procedure for integrated assessment of university activities by the Ministry of Education, licensing and attestation requirements, state and public professional accreditation, and the experience of Tomsk Polytechnic University in…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality
Vlasceanu, Lazar; Voicu, Bogdan – Higher Education in Europe, 2006
This paper presents the main results of a recent survey of private higher education institutions from twelve selected European countries (Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia) [in the framework of the UNESCO-CEPES project on "Private Higher Education in Europe and Quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, School Surveys, Private Education