In choosing a field for further studies, high school students are influenced by their peers, among other factors. For example, a high school student interested in technology among a class of peers who are not so good at physics may perceive it as a competitive advantage, increasing the likelihood of their choice of a technical field for a career, according to Andrey Zakharov, Deputy Head of the International Laboratory for Education Policy Analysis at the HSE's Graduate School of Education, and Elizaveta Chernenko, Research Fellow of the same laboratory.
February 27, 2015
State funding for education systems fails to take popular demand into account. About 10% of state-funded places are not in areas that interest school-leavers. There are too few options in the humanities, and too many in engineering, research carried out by the HSE’s Institute of Education, School of Mathematics, the Educational Center of Semantic Technology and Faculty of Economics.
February 03, 2015
Students who choose to pursue a master's or postgraduate degree are at a
distinct advantage over those who stop after receiving a bachelor's degree, and
can expect higher starting salaries and a wider career choice. Some students,
particularly those studying the humanities, medicine, and natural sciences, are
more likely to pursue further studies beyond the undergraduate programme,
observes Yana Roschina, senior research fellow at the HSE's Laboratory of
Economics and Social Research, in her report 'Factors Influencing Russian
Students' Educational and Employment Plans'
December 05, 2014
Universities decline not only due to a lack of money, enrollment of weak students, lack of ties with professional communities, and brain drain. Conservatism of their administration, lecturers and scholars is also an obstacle to the life-saving ‘reset’ of universities, Isak Froumin, Academic Supervisor of the HSE Institute of Education, and Mikhail Lisyutkin, Junior Research Fellow at this Institute, say in their paper ‘The Phenomenon of Degrading Universities in Russia. Stating the Problem’
November 26, 2014
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