The 2015 Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society was held in Washington, D.C. March 8-13. The conference program includes eight presentations co-authored by The International Laboratory for Education Policy Analysis staff.
Lauren McCarthy, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Associate Research Fellow in the HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development. She will talk about her research on Russian law enforcement and human trafficking at the XVI April Conference. The HSE English News service asked her about her experience of living and working as an international researcher in Moscow.
On March 12, Nadezhda Lebedeva (PhD, Professor, Head of the International Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Sociocultural Research, HSE) took part in the “Culture Matters” research seminar. She delivered a talk entitled “Testing the three hypotheses of intercultural relations in Russia and Latvia”.
23th February - 5th March, Boris Kuznetsov, the leading research fellow of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, delivered a series of lectures on modern Russian economy for Master students at the Università Ca' Foscari (Venice, Italy) as well as several lectures on the problems of Russian economy at Venice International University.
of teachers believe that skills in the field of computer and information technologies are what they lack most when it comes to working effectively. These data were obtained in a survey of school teachers that was conducted as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO) study carried out in the autumn and winter of the 2014-2015 school year.
Laboratory staff will continue to perform field studies among Russian schools, aimed to explain the features of the administration and directors work in modern schools.
Russian women hold a Doctor of Sciences degree. Another 33,000 hold Candidate of Sciences degrees. These data are contained in ‘Indicators of Science: 2015’, a new Data Book that will be published in the second quarter of 2015.
of executives at industrial companies noted in February that uncertainty in Russia’s economic situation is preventing the development of their businesses. These data are presented in new information and analytical materials produced by HSE ISSEK Centre for Business Tendency Studies. The materials cover the primary factors that limited the activity of enterprises and organisations in basic industries in 2014.
Another workshop of the ICSID-CSDSI seminar series was held at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development on March 3, 2015.
