Publication

This issue of the Russian Analytical Digest considers recent developments and trends in higher education in Russia. The first article argues that the introduction of a program of reforms over last decade has added bureaucracy, reduced state funding, and threatens to dramatically cut the number of professors. The second article examines the relationship between companies and higher education. It argues that following the transition to market economy, Russian companies became profoundly disinterested in cooperating with universities, but that this trend is now reversing due to two factors: a lack of highly skilled personnel in the country and the higher education reforms initiated by the Government since the mid-2000s.