DIRECTIONS AND FACTORS OF THE PLANNED EDUCATIONAL MIGRATION OF SCHOOLCHILDREN IN 9 AND 11 GRADES: RESULTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The territorial and settlement unevenness of the development of the educational infrastructure and the labor market, the differentiation of educational aspirations and resource opportunities of various social groups, the possibility of admission based on the results of examinations to educational organizations of different regions of Russia, actualize the consideration of the scale, motives, directions and restrictions of educational migration of Russian youth after leaving school. It is important to find out in which groups of modern youth and their families attitudes towards educational migration are formed, what resources are required for the implementation of these attitudes, what are the directions of actual and potential educational migration in the context of regions and types of settlements. Revealing stable directions of educational migration of Russian youth is an urgent research problem. The main goal of this work is to determine the directions and factors of the planned educational migration of schoolchildren in 9 and 11 grades for receiving secondary vocational and higher education on the basis of sociological data. The objectives of the study are, in particular, to identify the grounds for requesting households, which include schoolchildren in 9 and 11 grades, to receive secondary vocational and higher education outside the settlement or region of current residence; identification of the motives for obtaining education outside the settlement or region of current residence; analysis of the educational trajectories of schoolchildren in 9 and 11 grades involving educational migration. The methodology of sociological research involves the use of a combined quantitative and qualitative toolkit, carried out using specially developed field documents. The main findings of the study: the division of parents into two groups of comparable size was revealed – those oriented towards educational migration (56%) and those planning to receive vocational education in the settlement of residence; the fullness of these groups is significantly differentiated according to settlement types and educational aspirations; to a large extent, when planning to receive secondary vocational education and higher education, the younger generation repeats the educational trajectory of their parents, which is the reproduction of family status. The research results can be used in the interests of public authorities in the field of education to assess the consequences of educational migration for the socio-economic development of the regions of the Russian Federation