At least there can potentially be one good consequence - decrease in oil prices will force the government to invest in something else apart from oil.
I hope the prices will stay low for at least three years, because the last time, all the talks about building oil-independent economy in 2008 at 40$ per barrel have died down when the oil prices have gone up again.
Though that will be a tricky opportunity to take. With recent rabble-rousing against foreigners with things like the 'foreign agent' laws in combination with sanctions and the potential for military stuff to result in further sanctions, getting high-tech international companies to come to Russia is a hard sell.
I honestly have no idea about the state of education and its relationship with available work in Russia, but three years is a pretty short time. Without a pretty substantial pool of well educated but underemployed workers, dramatically increasing other sectors becomes very difficult. With a big push, you could certainly do something to start moving in that direction, but it would still be years before the effects started really showing. From what I've heard, Russia also has issues with petty corruption in the lower levels of government hurting businesses.
In the US, the will to make such drastic changes towards modernizing education and its role in the future of the country haven't really been seen since the
Sputnik Crisis at the start of the Space Race. I doubt even low oil prices coupled with a total economic collapse would be enough to spur such a will into existence, though it would certainly be a powerful catalyst. What is needed is either the total focus of the Russian government and the regime behind it, or at the bare minimum, a large group of oligarchs who make such change their priority at the expense of all else and who are free to do so with tacit support of the government.