It has become much harder for Russian graduates to find well paid job or job in their field of study.

MOSCOW, January 21, 2011. Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents the data concerning how Russians describe a modern student.

According to Russians, over the recent decades it has become more difficult for the graduates to find a job in their field of study (69%). Two thirds of Russians think that negative trends are witnessed when the young specialists try to get well paid job (65%).

The changes in the portrait of modern students are not so dramatic, Russians say. Over the recent five years the share of those who point out worsening in financial well-being of students has decreased (from 53 to 40%); on the contrary, the share of those who think nothing has changed in this sphere has increased (from 14 to 19%).The cultural level of students has declined but this problem seems to be less acute than it was in 2006 (from 47 to 43%). As to professional training level, Russians witness negative trends as it was five years ago: 44% of respondents think the situation has not changed for the better.

The situation has worsened in students` attitudes to learning (46% think so); however, every fifth think that no changes happened (20%).On the contrary,  the lecturers` attitudes to their work  look less negative, as they were five years ago: negative trends have been observed less rarer (from 46 to 39%). 

The initiative Russian opinion polls were conducted on 15-16 December, 2010. 1600 respondents were interviewed at 138 sampling points in 46 regions of Russia. The margin of errordoes not exceed 3.4%.

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