Competition
among science laboratories often goes hand in hand with mutual assistance,
allowing them to maximise their limited resources, such as expertise, grants,
equipment, and supplies. Anna Artyushina, postgratuate student at the HSE,
studied the trends in laboratory cooperation trends in the biotechnology field – one
of the most competitive areas of science
November 11, 2014
Extracurricular
activities continue to be popular among Russian youngsters, and most school
students attend after-school clubs and classes, including those offered by
their own school. Youngsters who are not involved in any after-school
activities explain it by not having enough time or not having access to
out-of-school programmes which are either non-existent in their community or out
of their price range. These are some of the findings of a study by Daniil
Alexandrov, Head of the HSE's Research Laboratory of Sociology in Education and
Science (St. Petersburg), and Valeria Ivaniushina, Senior Research Fellow of
the same Laboratory
October 17, 2014
Integrating Russia’s academic community into the
larger international community, internationalizing Russian academic journals,
and improving the quality of publications and research – these are the ultimate
priorities of a new project the HSE is participating in called the Russian Science Citation
Index. The project is being carried out on Web of Science, a leading global
search engine for academic publications. By the end of next year, a national database
is to be created that comprises the best Russian journals and publications from
the last ten years. The database will undoubtedly become a part of the
international publication space
October 16, 2014
Federal
and regional maternity benefits such as 'maternal capital', larger child allowances,
and other measures introduced since 2007 to improve the country's demography
have led to more births, but have not yet contributed to effective fertility
rates in Russia. A paper by Sergey Zakharov and Thomas Freyka in the HSE's new Demographic Review journal examines
Russia's reproductive trends over the past half-century in an attempt to make
projections concerning the future effects of the country's demographic
policies
September 25, 2014
After the Russian Unified State Exam (USE) was introduced, additional exam preparation did not lose its popularity. While there was previously a preference for tutors from the university a student had selected, now students are finding instructors ‘off the street’ to prepare them for the USE, Ilya Prakhov, Research Fellow in HSE’s International Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms (LIA), uncovered in his study, ‘The Dynamics of Investment and the Return on Additional Pre-entry Coaching’
September 16, 2014
One third of all graduates from regional colleges and universities plan to move elsewhere. Most would like to relocate to another Russian city, while some 7% of graduates are planning to leave the country, according to the study 'Migration Intentions of Graduates of Russia’s Regional Higher Educational Institutions' by Elena Varshavskaya, Professor at the HSE's Department of Human Resources Management, and Olga Choudinovskikh, Director of the Centre for Migration Policy
September 05, 2014
Despite the expansion of higher education throughout the world, it is not easy for a young professional to become a full-time university instructor with a good salary. Many things prevent this: universities’ personnel policies, weakening growth in state funding, and the increased importance of social connections in place of recruitment advertising, according to the research of Martin Finkelstein, Kevin Iglesias, Anna Panova and Maria Yudkevich
August 26, 2014
The social standing of parents has a greater effect on a child's education than the kind of school the child attends – in fact, the school's human, material, and financial resources make almost no difference to a student’s academic performance, according to a study by Senior Lecturer of the HSE's Subdepartment of Economic Methodology and History Gordey Yastrebov and Master's student at the HSE's Faculty of Economics Alexei Uvarov
August 07, 2014
In many cases combining study and work not only doesn’t undermine a student’s achievements, it actually enhances them. The experience of working in the field you are studying at university helps better master a profession and doesn’t cause a time conflict, says Diana Yanbarisova, Junior Research Fellow at the HSE Institute of Education, in her article, published in the latest issue of the HSE’s journal Voprosy Obrazovania (Issues of Education)
July 14, 2014
Lifelong learning is increasingly common in Russia. One can assume looking at the booming global business of online education with platforms such as Coursera, EdX, and Udacity, and various webinars and video lectures that the internet serves as the main channel of lifelong learning today. In Russia, however, the World Wide Web comes second to more traditional ways of learning. So Konstantin Fursov and Elena Chernovich, research fellows at the HSE's Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK), found in their study Monitoring Innovative Behaviour in the Russian Population in 2013
June 06, 2014
The personality traits of Russian students do not have an overall significant impact on academic performance at the university. In the West, those who are more responsible, open and inclined to take risks turn out to be better students, Ekaterina Kochergina and Ekaterina Orel said at an academic seminar of HSE’s Center for Institutional Studies
June 03, 2014
The high turnover of researchers and lecturers at universities cannot be fully explained merely by low pay or a lack of opportunities for self-fulfillment. Sometimes, young people choose an academic career for reasons other than an interest in research; they may take a postgraduate course to escape military service, to defer employment, or to meet society's expectations, according to Anastasia Sizykh, Research Fellow of the HSE's Institute of Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK)
May 26, 2014