Szymon Jankiewicz

The course “Teacher’s rights: how to defend yourself in conflict using legislative instruments” is open for applications

The course provides you with online lectures and practical tasks based on real-life cases.

We invite professors teaching Law curriculum practical classes to take part in the digital internship. The digital internship is a great opportunity to implement a corporate and individual academic track online on the priority topics of an educational organization.

The chapter "Language Conflicts in Russia’s Education System" was published in European Yearbook Book of Minority Issues.

The course was prepared by leading experts of the Institute of Education at the Higher School of Economics at the initiative and with the active participation of the brilliant team of the Master's Program "Education Management".

Staff members of the Education Law Laboratory took part in the events of the XX April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.

Education Law Laboratory Head Szymon Jankiewicz took part in the discussion "Schools in the center of the information scandal. Case study, media relations, legal support" in the framework of the National Forum "The Headmaster 2019”.

The paper was presented at the panel discussion "Safety in the educational environment: factors to counter bullying, aggression, and destructive behavior of students".

A seminar for headmasters of the Moscow Region "School endowment (endowment fund) as a tool for financial development of an educational organization and a way to attract investment" was held In the Reception Hall of the Government House of the Moscow Region in Krasnogorsk.

In November, IOE welcomed a cohort of top-notch law & policy experts from the U.S., Russia, Poland, Belgium, South Africa and Germany for the first international conference, ‘Multi-level Governance in Education: Top-down Governance, Transfer of Authority, and Regional Cooperation.’ A joint initiative between IOE and the ‘EduLaw’ (Erasmus+ Mundus – Curriculum Development) project, the event featured multi-prism debate about how more justified central–local power schemas in education can be devised as an important condition for shaping more effective, equity-centric L&D environments.

On November 15, the expert seminar was held in the Institute of Education of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics". The seminar was organized by the Centre for Education Law of the Institute of Education.

The conference was organized by the Centre for Education Law of the Institute of Education of the "Higher School of Economics" with the participation of the International Project "EduLaw" (Erasmus + Mundus - Curriculum Development)

The report is devoted to the courses of education law that are taught at various majors of the Higher School of Economics. Prior to the emergence of the Education Law Laboratory of the Institute of Education of the Higher School of Economics, the teaching of education law was not popular at the Higher School of Economics (some aspects of education law were covered in the course “Management of an Educational Organization”).

Head of the Education Law Laboratory Szymon Jankiewicz and the junior research fellow Nadezhda Knyaginina presented a report on the topic "Family Education in Russia: What Do We Know About It and What Do We Regulate?".

Опубликован препринт С.В. Янкевича и Н.В. Княгининой «The Language of the Republic at School: Who Decides?». Авторами исследуется вопрос, может ли республика Российской Федерации установить обязанность изучать государственный язык республики в школе.

Директор Центра образовательного права С.В. Янкевич и младший научный сотрудник Центра образовательного права Н.В. Княгинина представили результаты научного исследования, посвященного вопросу, каким образом гарантируются языковые права в образовании в России.

В Институте образования ВШЭ прошла встреча членов авторского коллектива нового комментария к Федеральному закону «Об образовании», в ходе которой авторы обсудили вопросы по работе над комментарием, а также обозначили новые задачи и план работы.

On January 29, 2018, the Centre for Education Law at HSE’s Institute of Education hosted an expert seminar on ‘Minority and Linguistic Rights in Education’. The seminar focused on key issues around linguistic rights of minorities, in particular with regard to education as a basic human right.

On the 30^th of January as a part of the weekly seminar in the Institute of Education Fernand de Varennes, UN’s special Rapporteur on minority issues, gave a lecture “25 Years of the Declaration on Minority Rights: National Minorities’ Problems in Education”.

On the 29^th of January the Center for Education Law held an expert seminar on “Minorities and Linguistic Rights in Education”.

In early October 2017, IOE hosted its first ever International Week of Education Law, a unique venue to take multiple perspectives on the best national and global practices in tackling the most pressing issues in education-related legal frameworks. Inspired and organized by the IOE Centre for Education Law, the event involved a series of talks and expert seminars by world-acclaimed field professionals, including the Centre’s Academic Supervisor Dr. Jan de Groof, Prof. Ingo Richter of Paris Nanterre University, and Prof. Pablo Meix Cereceda of Roma Tre University.

One of the main results of the «Week of Educational Rights» was the decision to prepare a new commentary to the Federal Law on Education. It will be the first bilingual commentary in Russian law based on a detailed analysis of the international law, the decisions of the European court for human rights and the legislation of the foreign countries.

Professor from Roma Tre University, Pablo Meix Cereceda, outlined the critical areas of concern of the report and, in particular, the theoretical basis of inclusive education, international regulation of the problem, approach to he issue from the position of constitutional law, analysis of the practice of positive discrimination.

Within the week of education law HSE’s Institute of Education hosted a seminar on «Federalism in Education». This event was devoted to discussing the most severe challenges of education in the Federal States, especially in Russia’s.

Within expert seminar, the discussion of the problem acquired a practical focus. Emphasis was placed on the approaches to solve the problem developed by the researchers.

On the 14^th of November, 2016 the Institute of Education hosted a meeting for the heads of educational institutions in Moscow – participants of the Consortium of Education Laboratories and HSE’s University’s Cluster. The event was organized by the Center for Leadership Development and the Center for Legal Applied Development of the Institute of Education.

Szymon Jankiewicz, Director of the Center for Applied Legal Research, and Nadezhda Knyaginina, Analyst of the Center, took part in an International Conference, ‘Development of Russian Law-IX: Russian Law and Globalization’,  held on October 6-7, 2016, at the University of Helsinki.

Members of the round table discussed questions concerning modern standards of managing the educational systems on the national level and in metropolitan areas, best practices of improving the education’s quality and possibilities and perspectives of using international experience to strengthen the capital’s leading position in the education’s field.

Members of the Centre for Applied Legal Research Szymon Jankiewicz and Nadezhda Knyaginina participated in the Global University Summit BRICS. The Summit is an official event of Russia’s chairmanship in BRICS 2015-2016. The forum was held by MGIMO, MSU, RUDN and MISIS.