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Sociologists in the Land of the Rising Sun

Alla Marchenko and Dmytro Khutkyy's impressions of the XVIII ISA World Congress

"Rising Powers" official blog about fieldwork in Moscow

The project on Emerging Technologies and Implications of Next Generation Innovation System Development (“Rising Powers”), which involves HSE ISSEK, has launched its official blog. One of its recent posts is on the fieldwork conducted jointly by a team of researchers from the University of Manchester and Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

10%

of Russian families with children are convinced that obtaining any higher education is important for a child but that the field of study and the university do not matter. The share of people holding this view is higher (14%) among families with children who are already prospective students. These statistics were obtained during a survey of Russian families with children ranging in age from 4 to 22 years, that was conducted in the fall of 2013 as part of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO) carried out jointly by HSE and the Public Opinion Foundation.

Pension Mobility within the Eurasian Economic Union and the CIS

Joint report of the World Bank and Eurasian Development bank prepared in collaboration with the LCSR

International seminar "Crosslinguistic studies of aphasia" by Roelien Bastiaanse

Roelien Bastiaanse - professor, the head of Department of neurolinguistics in the University of Groningen

28%

of Russian families are willing to devote up to 10% of their monthly budget to ensure their children have a quality education. These data were collected during a survey of Russian families with children 4 to 22 years of age, which was conducted in the autumn of 2013 as part of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations by the Higher School of Economics in collaboration with the Public Opinion Foundation. The project is coordinated by HSE ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education.

Christian Welzel received the 2014 Stein Rokkan Prize!

in recognition of his book «Freedom Rising»

Anna Lukyanchenko presented a report on lexical disambiguation in foreign languages

Anna Lukyanchenko presented a report on lexical disambiguation in foreign languages
July 23 Neurolinguistics Laboratory held a regular research seminar.

Thomas Bever presented his report on familial left handedness and its brain correlates

July 17 Neurolinguistics Laboratory held a research seminar.

HSE and Seoul National University have agreed to exchange students

Higher School of Economics and Seoul National University College of Engineering, Republic of Korea (SNU) have concluded a student exchange partnership for students of the Master’s programmes “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation” (HSE) and “Technology Management, Economics and Policy Programme” (SNU).