33.7%
of ninth grade students whose parents do not have a higher education perform at the A-level or B-level in school.
If at least one parent has a university degree, academic performance is significantly higher, with 46% of children in such families receiving high grades. A-level and B-level students are most commonly found in families where both parents have a higher education – 62.2%.
These data were obtained during a survey of 9th and 11th grade students at secondary schools that was conducted as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations study by the Higher School of Economics and the Levada Centre.
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53%
of Russian families with children believe that children with disabilities should study with non-disabled children.
1.5
is the number of times by which the salary of teachers in Moscow professional and technical schools must be raised to recruit the ‘ideal teacher’ according to the heads of these institutions.
13%
of full-time students at Russian universities in 2014 had intentions of studying abroad. A year earlier, the figure was 20%.
31%
of professional and vocational schools in Russia are currently not enrolling students for professional education programmes due to a lack of demand.
16
was the increase in the number of working hours per week for teachers at Russian universities in 2014 in comparison with 2013.
55%
of Russians age 25-64 who have a vocational education believe that their current activities partially or fully coincide with the education they received.