Abstract
The analysis of higher education (HE) inRussiafocuses on the complicated issues of the relationships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and provincial cities. The authors characterize different typologies of Russian HEIs and cities. It is suggested to distinguish between the HEIs related to the core of HE, semi-periphery, and to the periphery. The situation of peripheral HEIs that are located mainly in provincial cities seems to be the most complicated. Recently, about 300 HEIs and more than 800 branches of universities, a significant part of which belongs to the peripheral group, ceased to exist autonomously. Today the fate of some other provincial HEIs is yet to be defined. Meanwhile, the future of the young people is also tied to the HEIs’s destiny as well as the future of the cities’ population, where they are located. The analysis of the materials based on the authors’ empirical research conducted in the Ural Federal District (UFD) revealed that the elimination of autonomous universities, their transformation into branches and weakening in such a way of the HE in the medium, big and even large cities of the Russian province lead to stagnation and depression of these cities. One of the main factors of this situation is the mass educational migration of young people. The study discusses certain ideas for positive solution of these problems regarding the relationship of provincial Russian universities and cities, which could lead to their preservation and development.
Highlights
The burning issue regarding the today’s Russian higher education (HE) focuses on the relationships between the universities and the cities, where they are located
In the framework of our research we tried to look at the consequences of transformation of HE in Russia in order to provide social, economic, demographic and socio-cultural development of the universities and the cities of the Russian province in their interrelation
That under the conditions of social and economic uncertainty the universities in the medium, big and large cities of the province can become a key to their preservation, and the cities are going to turn into important factors of preservation and development of higher education institutions (HEIs)
Summary
The burning issue regarding the today’s Russian higher education (HE) focuses on the relationships between the universities and the cities, where they are located. Successful development of both higher education institutions (HEIs) and the cities depends on the level of strength and efficiency of these relationships. The more actively the universities are involved in solving economic, social, cultural problems referring to urban life, the more likely they are to get support from the city in order to promote their development. There is a serious problem that deals with conservation of existing HEIs within these cities in provincial Russia and the cities themselves [1,2,3]. In Russian social science the issues of physical and social space development of the country have been traditionally considered from the perspective of comparing and con-
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