Assessment of educational migration potential from Central Asia to the Sverdlovsk Region

Abstract

The article analyses and assesses the prospects of educational migration of young people from Central Asian countries to the Sverdlovsk Region as one of the Russian regions with a developed educational infrastructure. Based on the results of a sociological survey of labour migrants in the Sverdlovsk Region, conducted by the authors in 2023, it is concluded that the level of professional education of labour migrants is quite low and does not meet the current needs of the Russian labour market. In the future, the observed population growth in Central Asian countries, including its youth contingent, may contribute to an increase in the flow of educational migration to Russia and its regions. In this regard, it will be necessary to adapt the entire educational system and, first of all, the system of vocational education and training to this process. Keywords: educational migration, labor migrants, vocational education and training, vocational education system