Education

Two works of the winners of the Open HSE Student Research Paper Competition (NIRS) in 2018 in subject area “Philosophy” were dedicated to the problems of formal epistemology and were prepared under scientific supervision of the Deputy Head of the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy Vitaliy Dolgorukov.

The seminar for the Master's course Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology taught in 2018-2019 is supported by DataCamp, the most intuitive learning platform for data science. Learn R, Python and SQL the way you learn best through a combination of short expert videos and hands-on-the-keyboard exercises. Take over 100+ courses by expert instructors on topics such as importing data, data visualization or machine learning and learn faster through immediate and personalised feedback on every exercise.

HSE ISSEK joined the ‘FORESIGHT — Future Oriented Education for Students Incorporating GSC in High-paced Times’ project launched by five European universities. The three-year project funded by European Union started with the kickoff meeting held on November, 29–30 in Tilburg (the Netherlands). HSE ISSEK was represented by a post-doctoral research fellow Dr. Oguz Demir, who will be the overall coordinator of the project.

The junior research fellow of the laboratory Vsevolod Nikolskiy won the competition for admission to the "Full-time Advanced Doctoral Programme-2018" in the specialty "Computer and Information Sciences".

Maria Poptsova made a presentation "DNA punctuation-hidden layer of genome annotation" in IT crater

The Higher School of Economics has entered the top 5 of Russian universities most popular with foreigners, according to Rossotrudnichestvo (in terms of the number of applications for quotas submitted in the 2018/19 academic year). Gathered facts about international student mobility in the world, the country, HSE and the ISSEK 'Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation' Master’s programme.

Laboratory staff Helen Tevanyan, Michal Rosenwald, Alexander Shein, Anton Zaikin, Maria Poptsova, Michael Gelfand took part in the conference. Mikhail Gelfand - head of the section "Bioinformatics".

Виталий Долгоруков, Александра Павлова и Денис Федянин приняли участие в 30-й европейской летней школе по логике, языку и информации (30TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION), которая прошла в Софийском Университете с 6-го по 17-е августа.

The HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge published the statistical data book 'Education in figures'. It includes data describing the current state and development dynamics of the general, vocational, and higher education in Russia. Here are a few of the more interesting figures.