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Abstract. The paper proposes an approach to the estimation of university professors’ age. Its purpose is to analyze the median age of teachers in Russian universities and identify problems relating to the teacher age structure. The paper considers various factors affecting teachers’ median age, such as the median age of employees in economics, average number of years of study, teaching staff job structure. There is a trend to the median age decrease for teachers on lower positions and the median age increase for teachers on top positions in a job structure. There is given the median age of teachers on certain positions, a teacher career ladder is proposed with estimated waiting periods for the next job position. The paper concludes that professional stability of middle-aged teachers is low, leading to polarization and thinning of the middle layer in teacher age structure, and this is the main problem.

The paper shows the gender structure of higher education teaching staff in the post-Soviet Russia, and draws the results of comparison with foreign countries. The data is based on Russian and international educational statistics. The objective of this work is to reveal the type of dynamics of the gender structure of higher education teaching staff at the turn of the XXI century. It also demonstrates peculiarities of Russian higher education teaching staff feminization through a number of methods, including analysis, comparison, and quantitative evaluations (percentage, indices, and statistical series etc.) as well as by application of such parameters as proportion of women, and gender parity index. The gender aspect of the official structure of Russian higher education teaching staff is viewed as the gender composition of the teaching staff according to the level of the official structure as well as men/ women distribution by these levels. Summary: with higher education teaching staff gradually feminizing worldwide, this trend gains still greater speed in Russia. Moreover, the higher the official level is, the higher the feminization goes.

The article reveals research results of social trends in students’ migration of RSFSR/Russian HEIs in 1959-1999 including the analysis from the point of view HEIs’ branch affiliation. Educational statistics enables to review the stability parameters for student groups (share of graduates from the number of enrolled) plus correlation between the indexesof stability and enrollment competition. Examination of interconnection between rank consequence of HEI’s branch affiliation on stability and competition (with the help of Spearmen rank correlation coefficients) gave the following regularity: the harder the HEI enrollment competition the more stable are student groups and the lower the number of screened out.