Educational Migration: the Notion, Problems and Ways of Solution

• Main Author: D N Mitin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2010-09-01
• Series: RUDN Journal of Political Science
• Subjects: международная миграция; высшее образование; мировой рынок образовательных услуг
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/8976

The article is dedicated to the analysis of educational migration in the world and in modern Russia. The author supposes that educational migration is very significant for social development of many countries, including Russia. Educational migration carries at least four key positive effects: social, political, demographical and economical. Having estimated positively present dynamics of growth of foreign students studying in Russia, the author also notes that to reach the level of the leading countries of the world education market, Russia has to work out the conception of growth of its competitiveness in the sphere of export of educational services.