Open AccessDevelopment of higher education in Russian regions
Author(s) -
Iuliia Pinkovetskaia
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
educação and formação
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2448-3583
DOI - 10.25053/redufor.v7i1.6803
Subject(s) - teaching staff , higher education , mathematics education , position (finance) , statistical analysis , distribution (mathematics) , medical education , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , political science , medicine , statistics , mathematics , finance , law , economics , mathematical analysis
Study was devoted to the assessment of indicators characterizing the number and structure of research and teaching staff at universities and other institutions of higher education in the regions of Russia. These indicators were the number of teachers working in higher education, per thousand residents and per hundred students, proportion of professors and associate professors in the whole number of teachers. Research used official statistical information for 82 regions of Russia. We used density functions of normal distribution as models. Study showed that on average, there was a little more than one teacher working in higher education organizations per thousand residents. It is proved that on average, every seventh teacher in all regions held the position of professor. Approximately two-thirds of all teachers held associate professor positions, there were five teachers per one hundred students.