57%
of Russian families do not have the opportunity to choose which school their children attend. In recent years, this situation has worsened; five years ago, only 51% of families did not have a choice. Residents of villages, people with low income and people whose children perform poorly in schools are most often deprived of alternatives.
Slightly more than one third of Russian families stated that they have a choice of two or three schools for their children. Only 6% of families said they have a wide choice of more than three schools.
These statistics were obtained during a survey of Russian families with school age children that was conducted in the fall of 2013 as part of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations (MEMO), a study conducted jointly by the Higher School of Economics and the Public Opinion Foundation. A newsletter highlighting the research is planned for publication in the second half of 2014.See also:
Designers and Teachers Need to Establish Dialogue
When a classroom is well-organized, children not only feel comfortable, but also learn more effectively. Ways to create such a space were discussed at the research seminar ‘Design of educational spaces’, which was held at the Center of Leadership Development in Education at HSE’s Institute of Education on July 12-13.
16.2%
of students who attend schools in the inner Moscow suburbs are children whose native language is not Russian.
28%
of Russian universities feel ‘intense competition’ on the market for educational services.
A Study to Compare School Heads in Different Regions
The Centre for Developing Leadership in Education at the HSE Institute of Education is starting a project to study school heads in 16 Russian regions to make recommendations for a professional development and training programme. The project will become part of the international comparative research on school heads, the Asia Leadership Project, which HSE signed up to a year ago at a conference in Malaysia.