Вышел новый номер журнала Higher Education in Russia and Beyond
Этот номер целиком посвящён проекту Института образования ВШЭ по изучению трансформации секторов высшего образования в странах - бывших республиках СССР.
Higher Education in Russia and Beyond team is proud to present the 8th issue of a journal that is aimed at bringing current Russian, Central Asian and Eastern European educational trends to the attention of the international higher education research community.
This issue covers the transformations of higher education in the former Soviet republics. This issue’s particular focus is the changes of the institutional landscape in the post-Soviet countries with regard to national trends of higher education expansion. The issue comes along with the final stage of the international project Higher Education System Dynamics and Institutional Diversity in Post-Soviet Countries, which is coordinated by HSE Institute of Education. The papers of the issue include some empirical findings of the project related to the following countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Estonia and Latvia.
The countries of the former Soviet Union share a common past. They have different pathways since 1991 and diverse models of higher education expansion. Unequal starting conditions and unique socio-economic, cultural and political contexts have shaped various ways of higher education development: from rapid massification to de-massification. The changes in participation rates are certainly reflected in the number and types of higher education institutions. The papers of the issue review these changes of higher education landscape, including transformations of traditional Soviet institutions and establishment of new ones (e.g., private, newly born legal entities, international or foreign universities, etc.). Other structural reforms also contributed to the development of the landscapes: for instance, new accreditation systems and selection of leading universities. This issue is aimed to reflect on the results of the changes and shed light on the variety national trajectories of higher education development in the post-Soviet countries. The authors describe the peculiarities of national reforms and state policies on higher education. They also consider the environment of higher education systemic fluctuations: e.g., labor market transformations, demographic trends, economic and political agenda.
We hope that HERB develops into an expert discussion platform dedicated to the issues of higher education in post-socialist countries.
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