Education

This section contains statistics on permanent pre-schools, secondary educational institutions, professional training institutes and institutions of higher education of different levels of accreditation, data on training of postgraduate and doctoral students.

Pre-school educational institutions incorporate day nurseries, child care institutions, kindergartens, child care institutions of family, combined, compensation type (specialised and sanatoria based), tutorial and pedagogic complexes, etc.

Secondary educational institutions include schools, lycées, gymnasiums, collegiums, educational training complexes (associations), sanatorium schools of all levels as well as specialised schools (boarding schools) and schools of social rehabilitation.

Secondary educational institutions of the first level (primary schools) provide basic education, schools of the second level (middle school) grant incomplete secondary education and schools of the third level (high school) ensure completed secondary education.

Professional training institutions are educational institutions which provide professional training education. The graduates from professional training institutions who received the good assessment of their qualifications are given a skilled worker qualification in occupation of the appropriate rank (category).

Institutions of higher education consist of technical secondary schools, vocational schools, colleges, institutes, conservatoires, academies, universities, etc.

According to the status of the institutions of higher education, four levels of accreditations were set up: the first level refers to technical secondary schools, vocational schools, etc. The second level covers colleges (technicums) and other similar institutions. The third and the fourth levels include academies, universities, institutes and conservatoires.

Higher educational institutions train specialists according to the following education and qualification levels:

training of junior specialists is normally provided by technical secondary schools, vocational schools, other institutions of higher education of the first level of accreditation;

bachelors are trained by colleges, other institutions of higher education of the second, third and fourth levels of accreditation;

specialist training and training for master degrees by institutions of higher education of the third and the fourth levels of accreditation.

Within the improvements made to the state statistical observation launched  over institutions of higher education, the methodology behind the indicators of admission to and graduation from institutions of higher education has undergone changes.

From the 2004/05 academic year, the section gives data on enrollments to the primary cycle of education (i.e. students who just started their training at institutions of higher education) and graduations (excluding those who continue their training in order to receive a higher educational and qualification level).