Higher School of Economics

In its fifth year already, the HSE Summer University was officially opened on June 20th by Vice Rector, Ivan Prostakov. Over the next 8 weeks, HSE will provide almost 200 students, PhD candidates, postdocs and professionals from all around the world with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge in a wide range of fields.

HSE and Kyung Hee University Double Degree Programme in Economics and Politics in Asia' has signed an agreement with the Russian office of the Hyundai Corporation on the opening of an internship programme.

The Higher School of Economics ranked 38th in the QS ranking of young universities, up from 48th last year. The ranking includes the best universities around the world that are younger than 50 years old.

On June 21-22, the HSE Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities will host a conference on ‘Soviet States and Beyond: Political Epistemologies of/and Marxism 1917-1945-1968’. Jan Surman, Research Fellow at the Institute, joined the HSE News Service for a discussion about the topics that will be covered at the conference and the outcomes that organizers hope to achieve.

The Centre stems from the International Neurolinguistics Laboratory and brings together researchers in clinical linguistics, special needs education, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, child speech, and gerontolinguistics.

Isaac, a new robot at HSE, will automatically process publications by HSE staff and make the results of various competitive campaigns more predictable for each employee. The robot was named after the writer Isaac Asimov, who in the story ‘Round Dance’ formulated ‘three laws of robotics’, according to which a robot cannot harm a person.