Part-Time Learners of Higher Education: Training and After Graduation

  • Galina A. Cherednichenko Institute of Sociology of the FCTAS RAS galcher2211@gmail.com
Acknowledgments
The study was supported by RFBR. Project № 18-011-00141a «’Part-time’ of Higher EducationSocial Behaviour in the Education System and the Labour Market»
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Cherednichenko G.A. 2019. Part-Time Learners of Higher Education: Training and After Graduation — Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika. Vol. 7. No. 2. P. 46-64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2019.7.2.6409

Abstract

Analysis based on state statistics and survey data of RLMS for 2016 on 30–39-year-olds with higher education, who completed part-time and completed full-time education in universities, allows to detect the degree of commonality/differences in their socio-demographic characteristics, educational path, employment status and subjective evaluations. “Part-timers” are older, among them the proportion of women, residents of villages and settlements, who are married and have children, is higher. They study more often in rural schools and graduate from 9 rather than 11 grades; more than a half go to university after receiving a secondary vocational education. “Part-timers” are very slightly different from “Full-timers” in main indicators of labor activity: share of employed is slightly higher, one of the unemployed is lower; more often work in formally organized jobs. The first ones are distributed on somewhat lower statuses: the share of highly qualified specialists (which is formally provided by diploma) is lower and the share of workers is slightly higher. There is much more unity than differences in subjective assessments of their work by “Parttimers” and “Full-timers “. Almost three quarters are satisfied with working conditions and 7–10% are not; the ratio of satisfied to unsatisfied wages is 45 to 30%. At the same time, “Part-timers” have a small margin of positive ratings. Ideas about their place in some social hierarchies are also very close in both groups.
Keywords:
higher education, “part-timers”, “full-timers”, educational track, labor activity, selfassessment

Author Biography

Galina A. Cherednichenko, Institute of Sociology of the FCTAS RAS
Doctor of Sociology, Main Researcher

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Cherednichenko, G. A. (2019) ’Part-Time Learners of Higher Education: Training and After Graduation’, Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika, 7(2), pp. 46-64. doi: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2019.7.2.6409.