With the recovery and development of the national economy, education in the Soviet Union has also been rapidly restored and developed. Compared with 195 1, the education expenditure in 1940 has more than tripled. 1952 Seven-year compulsory education was basically popularized throughout the country, and 10 year education was also popularized. Colleges and universities have developed rapidly. A number of two-year normal colleges have been closed, and higher industrial schools and comprehensive universities have been added. The number of students is 65,438+0,956-65,438+0,957, and the school year reaches 20,065,438+0,000, which greatly exceeds the number before the war. In the 1960s, the number of students continued to increase. In the 1970s, because senior professionals basically met the needs of national economic development, the development speed of higher education began to slow down, with emphasis on improving the quality of education. 1In June, 1972, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union adopted the Resolution on Measures to Further Improve Higher Education, proposing to pay attention to cultivating professionals with a wide range of knowledge and expand the teaching of basic theories. According to statistics, from 65438 to 0980, there were 1265438+ ten thousand employees with higher education, accounting for 9.6% of the total number of employees.