Family Resources and Youth Educational Trajectory Choices

Tatyana L. Klyachko – Director of Center of the Economics for Continuing Education of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor (Moscow, Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dmitry M. Loginov – Senior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Economic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Elena V. Lomteva – Leading Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Larisa Yu. Bedareva – Senior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

As shown by the study conducted in 2020 by the RANEPA Center for Lifelong Learning Economics, the main reasons behind the respondents’ choice in favor of secondary vocational education (SVE) can be divided into four groups: lack of proper knowledge and/or motivation to learn; shortage of family resources; a strategy of maximizing the advantages in the labor market; a strategy of choosing training in the SVE system as a step towards higher education.

Key words: youth, education, secondary vocational education, family resources.