Presidential executive order No 597 of 12 May 2012 envisaged ‘the approximation, in 2012, of the average educa tion worker salary level in general education establishments to the average salary level in a given region’. Since then, this goal has never been taken off the government agenda.

In accordance with the President of the Russian Federation’s Executive Order No 599 of 7 May 2012, at least one out of every 2.7 employed workers aged 25–65 years should be involved, in 2015, in one or other supplementary professional training program (either short-term or long-term)...

A second round of monitoring the performance standards practiced by higher educational establishments has been completed in the Russian Federation. The very fact of such a monitoring having actually been launched is an indirect sign that licensing and accreditation procedures are applied...

In 2013, the principle focus in the Russian education system was placed upon raising teaching personnel wages, because these wages are linked to wages of the nursery-school teacher and teaching personnel of the extended education system. During the same year, the Center for Continuing Education...

In 2014, unprecedented measures of control were taken in passing of the unifi ed state exam (USE). That situation produced immediately both some expected and unexpected results.

Late May and June is the period when high school graduates take their Unified State Exam (USE). Naturally, the USE draws more attention in this period: numerous stories about corruption relating to the USE are published in mass media, and this type of exam receives an increasing criticism