Further Vocational Training of Public Servants in 2010

Abstract

Dinara Borodina, senior research fellow at the Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education, Institute for Statistical Studies and the Economics of Knowledge, National Research University — Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: dborodina@hse.ru Address: 18 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation.

This report presents data collected by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) according to form # 2-GS (GZ) ‘Information on further vocational training of federal public servants and public servants of federal subjects of the Russian Federation’ and contained in the statistical bulletin ‘Further Vocational Training of Federal and Municipal Public Service Staff in 2010’. Information on public servants who received further vocational training (FVT) is classified according to branches of government and types of training received. The majority of students were represented by the federal executive branch. Absolute majority of federal public servants passed advanced training, with 90% of total students being represented by regional federal public servants. Business was the most demanded field of further vocational training in 2010. Public servants received FVT mostly in public educational institutions.

Information on public servant FVT financing is provided: 98.9% of staff training was financed from the federal budget.

Further vocational training received by public servants is described based on the nature of the process: off-the-job training, on-the-job training, combined on-and-off training using distance learning techniques.

The report presents the top ten federal subjects of the Russian Federation by the number of public servants who received further vocational training in 2010.

All values considered in the report were compared to the corresponding values in 2009.