Challenges of Educational Migration at the Present Stage

Abstract

According to the Federal Project «Russia is an attractive country for studying and working», by 2030 the number of foreign students should increase by 1.5 times compared to 2021. In recent years, higher education educational institutions of higher education have made significant progress in attracting foreign students on average, their annual growth in the number of foreign students in Russian universities in during the last previous three years has beenbeing about 6 % per year. The attraction ofAttracting foreign students in recent years has been associated with serious challenges: the pandemic and quarantine restrictions (2020–2021), the forced transition of universities to distance learning (2020– 2022), the transformation of the geopolitical situation, the allocation of the category of unfriendly countries, the rejection of the Bologna format of the organization of the educational process organization. These factors have also left their mark oninfluenced the admission campaign of the 2022–2023 academic year. The authors of the articlethis paper aim to at identifying the key problems of internationalization of education internationalization in modern conditions. We propose fundamentally new managerial and legal solutions for the development of educational migration developmentat a qualitatively new level. The empirical basis of the study was a university international services employees’ survey of employees of international services ofpoll universities and the official statistics of international and Russian organizations. The main research methods are formal legal and comparative legal. The article may be useful tomight be of use for the employees of educational authorities, uni versity management, employees and of university international services of educational institutions of higher education, for university managers, and for international education experts in the field of international education.