Abstract
The Russian Science and Humanities today are not just going through a difficult period of renovation but continuing crisis. There are several reasons to this situation: lack of demand for researchers in industry, relatively low wages of academics, migration of academics into commerce, emigration abroad, a low iprestige of Science and Humanities in views of young people and, caused by the abovementioned, a steady aging of academia. Based on the data of all-Russia studies, the article reveals the structural dysfunctionality of academia personnel including the residual presence of a large non-productive personnel, the reasons of academia aging and the reluctance of University graduates to choose an academic career, graduates decrease as a result of the negative impact of the demographic pit and, therefore, a lack of graduate students. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s4p352
Highlights
Personnel shortage in the economies of all developed countries, and especially in the sphere of intellectual activity, is aggravated by unfavorable demographic situation, the cause of which is a natural decline in birthrate, and the continuing negative impact of the "demographic hole" as " an echo" of the World war of the twentieth century
From the late 1990s on, the population of the Russian Federation has been annually reducing by an average of 0.5 million of people, resulting in the situation that by 2014 the number of graduates from Russian universities decreased by 35%
Integration into the world economy based on the principles of market economy resulted in the situation when the Russian economy experienced a considerable shortage of professionals able to perform their occupational functions in a dynamic, innovative production
Summary
Personnel shortage in the economies of all developed countries, and especially in the sphere of intellectual activity, is aggravated by unfavorable demographic situation, the cause of which is a natural decline in birthrate, and the continuing negative impact of the "demographic hole" as " an echo" of the World war of the twentieth century. Integration into the world economy based on the principles of market economy resulted in the situation when the Russian economy experienced a considerable shortage of professionals able to perform their occupational functions in a dynamic, innovative production. The resulting situation is as follows: Russia experiences an acute shortage of professionals able of analytical thinking and implementing research outcomes into production, increasing its competitiveness in domestic and international markets of goods and services. Under the circumstances, educating analytically minded professionals for innovative production and researchers for academic organizations became challenging The interest in such intellectual professions is still demonstrated by an average of 6% of university students, and after the graduation, no more than 0.5% are attracted by research organizations or development laboratories of manufacturing companies.
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