Problems of Training Science-Teaching Cadres

The principal functional task of higher education is to train highly qualified scientific and science-teaching cadres. Under the socioeconomic reforms, the principal cadre problems of higher education in Russia are these [1, p. 24]: (1) Young instructors are leaving educational institutions for spheres that are more comfortable in material terms (on the average, around 40 percent of the total number, according to figures for 1992-93), resulting in the overall aging of the teaching staff in higher education; (2) the number of young specialists who enter graduate studies and who desire to devote themselves to teaching and science-teaching work is declining drastically (1991-93), especially among males;