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Kotlyarov, I. V.; Kostyukevich, S. V.; Yakovleva, N. I. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
In this article we investigate the problem of the balance of fundamental and applied training in technical colleges through the lens of a historical analysis of the development of the Soviet school of engineering. We demonstrate that the Soviet school of engineering became overreliant on fundamental education due to historical features of its…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Development
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Sokolova, G. N. – Russian Education and Society, 2013
In Belarus, the ways in which statistics are compiled, the complex rules for registering as unemployed, and the segmentation of the labor market and job-seeking activities, all combine to hide the actual levels of employment and unemployment. This in turn makes it difficult to develop appropriate and effective labor policies, and to have support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Patterns, Labor Market, Unemployment
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Semerikova, M. G. – Russian Education and Society, 2013
Research on family structures in Belarus show that they are changing to accommodate new societal requirements, but the data are ambiguous regarding the ability of family life to fit with its members desires for individual development and self-expression. (Contains 6 tables.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Role, College Students, Readiness
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Shirokanova, A. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2011
The concept of individualization as "a macrosocial process of modern times" was developed within the framework of general theories in the course of examining and explaining the sociality of the second half of the twentieth century. In the case of U. Beck's theory of risk society, individualization is interpreted as "liberation from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Theories, Individualism, Student Attitudes