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Lev Yakobson, Vice Rector of the HSE, comments on the modernization stipend plan signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

HSE experts comment on the shortage of students for state-financed places in Russia.

Irina Abankina, Director of the HSE Institute of Educational Studies, comments on the recent admissions scandal.

HSE experts comment on the issues related to the Unified State Examination in Russia.

In last days of July the Russian government was discussing a bill to increase the period of graduate study from 3 to 4 years. The project proposes to amend the federal law “On Higher and Postgraduate Professional Education”, in regard to training for a number of technical and natural sciences industries. Proponents justify the proposal by the fact that a number of disciplines (particularly in technical and natural sciences) require mandatory experimental validation of the theoretical results. Also, an additional year of postgraduate studies may increase the likelihood that students will create experimental equipment and/or use it for implementing research findings into industrial practice.

The Russian government, unhappy with the current skill levels of university professors and teachers, is planning to improve the proficiency of academics by encouraging their more active engagement in scientific work and research.

Russia now accepts that IT is an important tool in the organisation of industry, and in order to become competitive, we need to rearrange our whole economic model. The way forward is to have an innovative economy, said Viktor Nikitin in an interview with the RBTH editor Irina.