"Optimizing" Higher Education in Russia

David Mandel

ISBN 10: 3838215192 / ISBN 13: 9783838215198

Verlag: ibidem-Verlag, 2021

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"Optimizing" Higher Education in Russia | David Mandel | Taschenbuch | 170 S. | Englisch | 2021 | ibidem-Verlag | EAN 9783838215198 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: ibidem-Verlag, Leuschnerstr. 40, 30457 Hannover, info[at]ibidem[dot]eu | Anbieter: preigu.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 119017766

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: "Optimizing" Higher Education in Russia
• Verlag: ibidem-Verlag
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3838215192
• ISBN-13: 9783838215198
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

In 2012, soon after his election to a third presidential term as president, following a four-year stint as prime minister (to avoid modifying the constitution), and in the wake of an unprecedented wave of popular protests, Vladimir Putin issued his May Decrees. Notable among them was the governments commitment to increase the salaries of doctors, scientific researchers and university teachers to double the average in their respective regions by 2018. But then on December 30 of that year, the government issued a road map for education, revealing that the salary increases in higher education would be paid for, not by significant new government funding, but by optimization, which would eliminate 44% of the current teaching positions in higher education. This was justified in part by a forecasted drop in student enrollment. Thus opened a new, accelerated period of reform of higher education. David Mandel examines the impact of these reforms on the condition of Russias university teachers and the collective efforts of some teachers, a small minority, to organize themselves in an independent trade union to defend their professional interests and their vision of higher education. Apart from the subjects intrinsic interest, an in-depth examination of this specific aspect of social policy provides valuable insight into the nature of the Russian state as well as into the condition of civil society, in particular the popular classes, to which Russian university teachers belong according to their socio-economic situation, if not necessarily their self-image.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Mandel is Professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He studied sociology and Russian studies at the Columbia University in New York. He has also taught at the Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, Birmingham, U.K. Previous books include The Petrograd Workers and the Russian Revolution (Feb. 1917-June 1918), Chicago Haymarket, 2018. Democracy, Plan, and Market: Yakov Kronrod’s Political Economy of Socialism, ibidem-Verlag Stuttgart, 2017.

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.