在蘇聯,函授教育已得到普遍的發展。函授生約占高等學校學生總人數的三分之一。這種學習方式之所以普遍受到歡迎,就在於它可使函授生在不脫離生產的情況下受到高等教育。高等函授教育的目的,主要是培養生產部門或機關工作的人員成為專門人材。絕大多數的函授生都是按著自己的專業來學習的:其中有工人、技師、技士、集體農莊農民、集體農莊主席、教師、會計等。 蘇聯的函授教育有著固定的組織形式:高等函授學校、在高等學校內附設的函授部、高等函授學校分校以及函授部附設 In the Soviet Union, correspondence education has been generally developed. Correspondence students account for about one third of the total number of college students. This approach to learning is universally welcomed because it enables higher education of correspondence students without leaving their production. The purpose of higher correspondence education is mainly to train personnel in production departments or organs to become specialized personnel. The vast majority of correspondence students are learning according to their own profession: Among them there are workers, technicians, technicians, collective farmer, collective farmer, teacher, accountant and so on. Correspondence education in the Soviet Union has a fixed organizational form: higher correspondence schools, correspondence departments attached to institutions of higher learning, higher correspondence schools and correspondence department attached