Abstract

The paper analyses the labor market of faculty members in the period of modernization of higher education in Russia. It emphasizes the causes and specifics of unemployment for highly qualified lecturers. The author distinguishes the factors that increase the risk of the teaching staff of different categories losing jobs; characterizes the main types of “professorate” unemployment at the present stage; and determines the avenues for reducing unemployment and stabilizing the professional market of college lecturers. The paper also emphasizes some prospective lines of professorate research in the context of the educational policy aimed at optimizing the system of higher education and reducing the number of universities.

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