International Higher Education Bulletin: Now in Russian
International Higher Education discusses the situation and problems of the development of global higher education, as well as their solutions at a local, regional, and global level. Each issue features opinions by leading experts in topical areas of higher education studies, as well as the results of some interesting recent empirical studies. The Russian version aims to make Russian researchers familiar with the latest studies and trends in higher education.
The first issue of the Russian-language version of International Higher Education bulletin – Winter 2014 – includes articles dedicated to the specifics of higher education development in transitional countries and countries with median revenues, as well as items about how the political context influences the national systems of higher education. In addition to that, it discusses the problems of growing commercial education in Latin America, presents an analysis of the challenges and first results of internationalization in Europe, and raises the question of how the perception of international higher education is being transformed in terms of global thinking.
Boston College also cooperates with researchers from China, Spain, and Portugal, where translated bulletins in national languages are currently published.
Publication of the Russian version of the bulletin has been made possible thanks to the collaboration between the Boston College Center for International Higher Education and the HSE Centre for Institutional Studies. Several joint projects have been implemented over the last few years, and, as a result, several papers have been published, which are of importance not only for the Russian audience, but also for the international academic community.
From May 2014 the HSE will also publish an original supplement to the bulletin, Higher Education in Post-Soviet Area. The papers for this journal will be selected by a Russian editorial board. The supplement will focus on problems, solutions, trends and best practices in higher education in post-Soviet countries. Higher Education in Post-Soviet Area will be published both in Russian and in English, meaning that the HSE will be able to introduce the English-speaking academic community to the regional specifics of higher education and further develop international links.
Konstantin Vodopianov, HSE News Service
Philip G. Altbach
Maria M. Yudkevich
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How Academic Dishonesty Seeps into the Workplace
How does academic dishonesty of students correlate with honesty in further work? A group of scientists, including Evgenia Shmeleva, Research Fellow at the HSE Institute of Education, conducted research answering this question. During an open online seminar of a research group dedicated to ‘Academic Ethics in the Educational Context,’ Evgenia Shmeleva presented ‘Does Academic Dishonesty Seep into the Workplace? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study,’ which was prepared jointly with Igor Chirikov and Prashant Loyalka (HSE University)
Why High-Ability School Graduates Choose Low-Quality Universities
According to the findings of HSE researchers, up to one-quarter of school graduates in Moscow enrol in low-quality universities despite scoring highly on their Unified State Exam, the final school exam and a standard university admission mechanism in Russia. This academic mismatch limits their life opportunities and often stems from unequal starting conditions in the family and at school.
World Bank—HSE University Webinar Examines the Costs of School Closures During the Covid-19 Pandemic
On May 21, the joint webinar series, ‘Education under COVID-19: Problems, Solutions, Perspectives, Research’ began with a session about the effects of school closures under the pandemic. Harry Anthony Patrinos of the World Bank presented the results of a model that he and a team of researchers developed in order to predict the extent to which the closures may reduce learning and lead to future losses in labor productivity and earnings for today’s students. The webinar was moderated by Isak Froumin (Head of the HSE Institute of Education), while Professors Tommaso Agasisti (School of Management, Politecnico di Milano) and Sergey Kosaretsky (Director, HSE Centre of General and Extracurricular Education) served as discussants.
‘No One Expected Online Education to Receive Such a Powerful Impetus for Further Development’
On March 17, the Institute of Education hosted its annual seminar dedicated to issues in education. This year’s seminar addressed the topic, ‘Higher Education during an Epidemic: The Possibilities of Digital Technology’. For the first time in eight years, the seminar participants—representatives of Chinese, American, and Russian universities—participated in the event remotely.
A Journey of a Thousand Miles
Ruoqi Cao, from Harbin, China, graduated from HSE University’s Masters’ programme in International Business. She is now working on her PhD at the HSE Institute of Education, where her research focuses on the influence of higher education on the economics of the regions in Russia and China. She has shared with HSE News Service her story of coming to study and work in Russia.
International Higher Education Conference Opens at HSE University in Moscow
The tenth International Russian Higher Education Conference (RHEC) has commenced in Moscow this week and will last until October 25. This year’s conference focuses on ‘Contributions of Higher Education to Society and Economy: Global, National and Local Perspectives.’
American SemyonovAward Recipient to Look at Higher Education’s Relation to Civic Engagement in the Russia
Radomir ‘Ray’ Mitic just completed his PhD at New York University and will be joining the Council of Graduate Schools as a postdoctoral fellow this coming fall in Washington, D.C. This summer, he received an HSE SemyonovAward Research Internship to research civic engagement among Russian university students at the Institute of Education at HSE University. Last week, he participated in the International Summer School of Higher Education at HSE – St. Petersburg, and now he is conducting field research in Moscow. HSE News Service spoke with Ray about his research, his impressions of the two Russian cities, and his future plans.
International Advisory Committee Recommends a More Focused Approach
Members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) and the HSE administration have discussed the results of the committee’s annual meeting.
‘HSE Is in a Class by Itself.’ Annual HSE International Advisory Committee Meeting Commences
New faculties, personnel development, internationalisation, and much more – these are all things on the agenda of the annual International Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting currently taking place in Moscow.
‘International Cooperation Is a Two-way Road That Leads to the Development of Society’
The annual meeting of the HSE International Advisory Committee will be held December 12-13 in Moscow. In the run-up to the event, HSE News Service has talked to two new members of the committee, Marcelo Knobel, Rector of University of Campinas (Brasil), and Francisco Marmolejo, the World Bank’s Lead Tertiary Education Specialist.