Educational factors in population migration (case study of the Vologda oblast)

Understanding the current processes of educational migration, identification of groups of factors affecting the population’s decision to migrate, forms an attractive educational environment able to maintain the accumulated human potential of the region. The purpose for the article is to determine the factors in educational migration of the population of the Vologda Oblast. The research used methods such as surveys, data analysis, and projection. The research novelty lies in substantiating and identifying managed factors in population’s educational migration, which will be useful in the implementation of the Strategy for the socio-economic development of the Vologda Oblast up to 2030 (Strategy-2030). The article reflects the results of a number of sociological surveys conducted in the Vologda Oblast by the “Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” in 2016-2017. The studies identified the main reasons why people seek education outside the region, showed how much influence these or other circumstances have on the choice of an educational institution, and considered what causes hinder migration despite the desire to study in universities in other regions of the country...