Yaroslav Kuzminov: “University Is a Competitive Network Environment”

... wasn’t always the case. In the 1930s students studied a lot, because their career depended on it. By the 1960s and 1970s higher education had become very popular in the USSR, and the vast majority of people started going to university. In the 1990s higher education became universal in Russia, as in many other countries: 70-80% of the relevant age group started going to university. Students stopped feeling that their future career depended on how hard they slaved away at their studies. Of course, that doesn’t mean we should abandon ...