Abstract:

In modern conditions, formal education can be implemented in various ways. The possibility of non-linear learning can be considered as the realization of the individual needs of students. The intensity of changes determines the need for fundamentally new knowledge and (or) deepening of existing ones. In this sense, the presence of various options for building educational trajectories can be considered as a characteristic of flexibility and adaptability of the education system.

The paper presents a dynamic aspect of the change in the typical educational trajectories of formal education of Russian youth over the past 20 years. Based on the analysis of the expansion of access to education and increasing educational mobility of young Russians, it was concluded that the flexibility and adaptability of the education system have increased. Access to higher education has also increased for young people who previously received secondary vocational education after leaving school for various reasons. At the same time, to a large extent, the increase in the level of education for this group of workers is associated with training in the programs of Economics, Management, Law in the conditions of combining education and full employment. Probably, in these conditions, it is legitimate to say that the expansion of accessibility of higher education through the use of non-linear trajectories of its production is associated with its lower quality.

The information base of the study is the annual panel household survey The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE), which is representative at the national level. For the analysis, there were used data on the age of respondents, the presence of diplomas of different levels of education, the time of their receipt, the code of the profession obtained by ISCO2008. In some cases, there were also used additional socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents for in-depth analysis.

Keywords:

Youth, education, educational trajectory.