COLLEGES

COLLEGES, specialized educational institutions. In the RF, since the early 1990s, the status of C. has belonged to new or reorganized specialized secondary educational institutions (vocational‑technical schools, the so‑called tekhnikums), implementing programs of vocational education of basic and advanced levels. In the early 1990s, Motor Transport C., the C. of Radio Electronics (now the C. of Radio Electronics, Telecommunications and Security; both — in Ufa) were among the first to acquire the title of C. in the RB. In 1996, in the RB there were: 23 state‑owned C., in 2001 — 31, in 2006 — 45, in 2011 — 48 and in 2018 — 76.