Policy and practices in the education of children and adults in the 2012/2013 academic year: what has changed over five years?

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No. 5 (87), 2015 Author:  E.B.Galitskij The Information bulletin “Economic strategies of households in the sphere of adult education” continues a series of publications of the Higher School of Economics based on the results of the monitoring of education markets and organizations. The bulletin contains data on the policy and practices of the population of Russia and Muscovites in the education sphere collected in autumn 2013 in the course of representative surveys of the population.

The Information bulletin “Economic strategies of households in the sphere of adult education” continues a series of publications of the Higher School of Economics based on the results of the monitoring of education markets and organizations. The bulletin contains data on the policy and practices of the population of Russia and Muscovites in the education sphere collected in autumn 2013 in the course of representative surveys of the population.

Contents

1.    Data source

2.    General policy and practices in the education sphere

Value of higher education and criteria of selecting an option of obtaining it

Parents’ involvement in the instruction process and contentment with children’s studies

Additional and paid education

Policy in respect of payment for educational services

3.    Educational strategies of households

Structure of the 4 to 22 age group determined by the instruction process

Attendance of kindergartens by preschoolers and strategies of selecting secondary education institutions

Structure of secondary education and strategies of continuing education

Strategies of entering higher education institutions

Strategies of studying at higher education institutions

Strategies of adult additional education

4.    Shadow costs of households on the education of children

Awareness of corruption cases at different stages of the instruction process

Direct assessment of the prevalence of the corruption conduct at different stages of the instruction process

Indirect assessments of shadow payments

Indirect assessment of the prevalence and size of corruption payments at the stage of passing a unified state examination

Indirect assessment of the prevalence and size of corruption payments for entering a higher education institution

Indirect assessment of the prevalence and size of corruption payments in the course of studying at a higher education institution