Author of Moscow, The Beautiful and the Damned. Countries with lower enrolment rates are those lagging behind economic recovery and reform.
Evidence also suggests that a greater divide is emerging when it comes to educational access.
According to a cited OECD review, As Russian society becomes increasingly stratified in terms of wealth, Russian education is increasingly stratified in terms of opportunity. The report, Young People in Changing Societies, which includes interviews with youth in the region s 27 countries, calls for more youth-friendly schools in terms of teaching methods, curricula and the school environment. Lunchtime at Rtishchevo s School No. 2. At 40, she is the deputy director of Secondary School No. 2 and looks back over a career that spans the entire recent epoch of upheaval and change in Russia. Mikhail Gorbachev had only just come to power when she started teaching and the Communist Party line still dictated much of the curriculum.