Influence of the Town-Forming Higher Education Institution on Demographic Situation in the Monotown

Abstract

Employment problem, vocational and territorial disproportions in supply and demand for labor force in monotowns of Russia get a strategic importance in forming the necessary quantity of workers that will provide the economic development of defense industry enterprises in monotowns. In the nearest future without regulatory measures the labor market situation can become worse. The solution of this problem is in many respects possible due to preservation of small town-forming higher education institutions which are the social and cultural centers of the towns. The paper analyses the influence of existence of town-forming higher education institution in monotown on demographic situation and on obtaining the necessary number of qualified specialists of municipal economy mainly from the local population that will provide the economic development of defense industry enterprises in monotowns. For the last five years the aging rates in monotowns of the Udmurt republic considerably differ: we can observe the rejuvenation of the population of Votkinsk and slight aging rates in Glazov and Sarapul. It is caused by the fact that in higher education institutions of these towns the number of students of the full-time education of budgetary branch has dramatically decreased and the defense order practically has no place - this policy provokes “irretrievable educational migration”. In the nearest future this situation will bring the lack of the necessary quantity of qualified specialists that will limit the implementation of the state program of integrated development of monotowns.