Youth in Higher Education: Issues of Educational Strategy Choices

Elena V. Lomteva – Leading Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Larisa Yu. Bedareva – Senior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Socio-economic changes have led to a transformation of values among young people: the attitude toward higher education, which gave social status and, consequently, employment privileges, has become a thing of the past. At the same time, the changes to the system of professional education that are taking place in Russia may in the near future seriously affect the behavior of young people, especially young men – their focus on enrolling in full-time higher education will increase.

Key words: school leavers, higher education; secondary vocational education, educational strategy.

JEL-codes: I20, I21, I23.