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SUMMARY:Russian Higher Education and the Post-Soviet Transition - Professo
 r W. John Morgan (UNESCO Chair of Political Economy and Education\; Distin
 guished Professor\, International Institute of Adult and Lifelong Educatio
 n\; Senior Fellow\, China Policy Institute\; School of Education\, Univers
 ity of Nottingham)
DTSTART:20141030T170000Z
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CONTACT:Laura Carnicero
DESCRIPTION:The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 required the system o
 f education\, as with all other Soviet institutions\, to adjust of it were
  to survive in the new Russian conditions. It was faced\, above all\, with
  the need to indentify a new social and economic role as the education sys
 tem of a radically different society and economy. This raised fundamental 
 questions that required urgent answer. What was its purpose? Who should it
  serve? How was it to be organized and financed? In this seminar we shall 
 focus on the responses of that most crucial and yet vulnerable part of the
  system: higher education\, including professional and vocational training
 . The emergence of a ‘demographic hole\; during the 1990s made such ques
 tions even more difficult of answer\, especially on a longer term basis. H
 owever\, it should be noted that\, under the conditions of an officially d
 eclared transition to a market econo0my\, the sector proved very sensitive
  to the new economy’s labour market for employees.
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DM
 B\, Room GS1
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