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Current topic: Higher education: bigger, better, or cheaper?

• What society sees as the problems of higher education

• Is there too much higher education in Russia?

• Is the quality of higher education falling?

• Do employers need staff with secondary vocational education?

• What employers think about the quality of workers’ basic education

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

• Education of the population of the EU-28, 2014

• The level of education in the EU-28 is increasing from generation to generation

• 33% of students are studying social sciences, business and law, 11% - natural sciences, mathematics or computer science

• The share of young people completing their training with a low level of education has been reduced to 11%

• One in five inhabitants of the EU-28 between the ages of 25-34 did not study or work in 2010-2014

• The higher young people’s education level, the higher their employment

• The share of students in the population aged 25-64 has increased to 10.7%

Through the eyes of the analysts

• “Capitalcentrism” as the cause of social inequality in the Russia system of higher education

• An assessment of the need for additional places in the general education system of the Russian Federation in 2014-2015

• The problem of unemployment among university graduates in the light of China’s higher education reform

Q&A

• The financial condition of Russians 2005-2015

• The labor market and unemployment: results of 2015 and forecasts for the future

• Labor mobility: 1990-2015

• Only housing and higher salaries could possibly draw people to the Far East

• Trips abroad

In the vastness of Russia

• Putin commissions creation of data base of all Russians

• Over the first 10 months of 2015 Russia’s natural population growth came to 21,000 people

• Mortality in 2015 remained at 2014 level

• Raising the retirement age may not really save the State much money

• St. Petersburg’s population growth will slow due to lower numbers of migrants

• The number of orphans has decreased by 33% over past two years

• Russia will continue to implement programs to provide children with places in kindergartens

• Starting January 1, possibilities for using maternity capital have been expanded

• Over 1.72 million Crimeans have received Russian citizenship

• Government has decided to change the conditions for receiving citizenship for investment

• In 2015 over 3 million foreign nationals in Moscow were registered with the Migration Service

• Alcohol consumption in Russia fell from 13.5 to 11.5 liters per capita

• In 2015, more people in Russia died from suicide than from traffic accidents

• In 2015, mortality from cardiovascular disease decreased by 17.7%

• Onishchenko blames Russian women for rise in male mortality

• Over past two years infant mortality in Chechnya has been halved

• About 35% of children in Russia are born with various complications or get sick in their first year of life

• Mathematicians of the Higher School of Economics will help treat leukemia in children more effectively

• State Duma rejects initiative to inform parents of their daughters’ abortions

• Medvedev approves program of state guarantees of free medical care for 2016

• Increased government spending on the supply of medicines

• Regulations on the number of emergency calls do not and should not exist

• Government has expanded list of vital and essential medicines

• Russia submits documents for registration of Ebola vaccine

• Botkin Hospital and eight medical institutions in Moscow fined for fictive medical services

• Ministry of Health refused to consider “childfree” crazy

European panorama

• In the world live 50 million Azerbaijanis

• Life expectancy in Moldova is almost ten years less than in the EU

• Is Georgia’s rise in fertility linked to the Patriarch’s initiative?

• Ukraine now has no money for a new census

• The retirement age in Belarus will not be raised in 2016

• Azerbaijan to index pensions

• Maternity leave pay in Kirgizia does not even reach 2,000 soms

• Unemployment rate in Belarus is one of the lowest in the CIS

• Thousands of Uzbek citizens suffer due to confusion with passports

• Russia and Uzbekistan are preparing an agreement on the regulation of employment of citizens of Uzbekistan in Russia

• The number of compatriots from Uzbekistan in 2015 increased to 20,000 people

• From 1992 to 2013 nearly 43,000 Moldovans received US residence permits

• A fifth of young people from Moldova have left the country

• The number of job openings for Ukrainians in other countries is growing steadily

• Quota for foreign professionals in Kirgizia will be nearly 15,000 people

• In 2015 the flow of remittances to Kirgizia decreased by a quarter

• Russian State Duma exempts citizens of Belarus from Russian language exam

• Maybe the death of one in three children in Tajikistan due to malnutrition

• Kirgizia awarded for reducing child mortality

• Abkhazia bans abortion

• Azerbaijan may ban abortion

• EAEC has started to operate a single register of medicines

• Pedestrians in Uzbekistan prohibited from using their cell phones on the street

World news

• The Earth’s population is growing, and Russia’s has “stabilized”

• The number of migrants in the world has risen to 244 million people

• The past five years have seen an improvement of demographic indicators in Latvia

• “Is Lithuania dying?”

• Over 33% of Estonia’s population live in Tallinn

• Every fifth resident of Belgium is a foreigner

• In Spain, mortality has exceeded fertility

• For the first time in 40 years all Chinese families will be allowed to have two children

• China to continue limiting fertility level until 2045

• Explanation found for the birth of an abnormal number of twins in the US

• In the Netherlands, an increasing number of old people living alone

• Greek authorities have allowed homosexuals to sign cohabitation agreements

• In Estonia, the children of non-citizens will be given citizenship at birth

• Migration crisis will be a priority during Dutch EU Presidency

• UN told of a million migrants reaching Europe in 2015

• US to begin deporting families of illegal migrants

• Former Czech president is sure that migrants will not want to do menial jobs for Europeans

• EU Court criticizes Scotland’s anti-alcoholiс pricing law

• Smoking destroys the liver as much as alcohol

• Does physical exercise have no effect on life expectancy?

• Guinea manages to stop spread of Ebola virus

• The world annually registers between 1.4 and 4.3 million cases of cholera

• Frequent childbirth slows down the aging process

• Coffee lovers have lower risk of premature death

• “Early birds” and “night owls” differ in appearance and diseases

• US lifts ban on gay blood donors

The newspapers write about…

• “Polit.ru” on the demographic results of the 1990s

• “Lenta.ru” and “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on demography, terrorism and war

• “Russkaya sluzhba ‘Zhenmin zhibao’” on China’s “two children” era

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on raising the retirement age

• “Novosti Belarusi” on savings from raising the retirement age in Belarus

• “Kommersant” on the aging of the population and economic growth

• “OPEC.ru” on factors of longevity

• “The New Yorker” on achievements in medicine in 2015

• “Meditsinsaya gazeta” on saving money on health care

• “OPEC.ru” on road accidents and corruption

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on domestic violence in Russia

• “Zerkalo nedeli” on the population of the DNR

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on a proposal in Kirgizia to forbid getting married in church before registering in the registry office

• “Project Syndicate” and “Atlantico” on Europe’s migration crisis

• “FranceTVinfo” and “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on teaching migrants in Europe how to behave

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on segregation in the USA

• “Kommersant” on emigration from Russia

• “Tageszeitung” on labor migration from Armenia to Russia

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on educating migrants and their children in Moscow

• “Vedomosti” on spatial mobility during the crisis

• “Vedomosti” on the conditions of circular migration

• “Vedomosti” on competition between universities on the global market

• “Kommersant” on merging regional universities

• “Polit.ru” on the problems of the Russian labor market in 2015 and expectations for 2016

• “Slon.ru” on online services as a remedy for the crisis on the labor market

• “Novaya gazeta” on drug hysteria

• “Svobodnaya pressa” on creative solutions to promote fertility

• “Russkaya Sluzhba Novostei” on population of a billion for Russia

• “Kommersant” on the success of certain demographers

• “Kommersant” on proposed tax relief for young families

• “BBC” on dirty air and obesity

• “Gazeta.ru” on the “extinction” of men

• “Kommersant” on the nondisclosure of closed cities

Read books and magazines

• Demographic Yearbook of Russia. 2015

• In search of a new “Silver Age” in Russia: the factors and consequences of population aging

• Migration-related aspects of public health: a review of evidence on the health status of refugees and asylum seekers in the European region

• Development of cooperation with the Russian scientific diaspora: experience, problems, prospects

• Medical and demographic indicators of the Russian Federation in 2014

• Through the pages of the journals “Narodonaseleniye” (“Population”) and “Rossiyskiy Onkologicheskiy zhurnal” (“Russian Journal of Oncology”)

• Contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

Demographic digest

• Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging

• Who Takes Care of Whom in the United States? Time Transfers by Age and Sex

• Previous employment histories and quality of life in older ages: sequence analyses using SHARELIFE

• Heading for success: or how not to title your paper

Profession: researcher

• Happy birthday to Ekaterina Alexandrovna Kvasha

• 85 years since the birth of Viktor Ivanovich Perevedentsev

• V.I. Perevedentsev. Where the destiny of events is leading us

Satirical article

• Maculate conception