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57%

of Russian families do not have the opportunity to choose which school their children attend. These statistics were obtained during a survey of Russian families with school age children that was conducted in the fall of 2013 as part of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO), a study conducted jointly by the HSE and the Public Opinion Foundation.

Putin will nicht enden wie Mubarak

Die russische Elite hat kein Konzept für das eigene Land, sagt der Ökonom Andrei Yakovlev. Er warnt den Westen davor, Russland zu stark zu isolieren.

International Summer School on Social Network Analysis was held in St. Petersburg Department of HSE

The school was attended by members of the International Laboratory of the Analysis of Educational policy- Elizaveta Chernenko and Andrei Zakharov.

15%

of students in continuing education programmes take part for general development, out of a thirst for knowledge and for interaction with others. This information came from a survey of 3,054 continuing education students from 57 of Russia’s territorial entities that was conducted in 2013 as part of the HSE’s Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO)”, which is coordinated by ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education.

Sociologists in the Land of the Rising Sun

Alla Marchenko and Dmytro Khutkyy's impressions of the XVIII ISA World Congress

"Rising Powers" official blog about fieldwork in Moscow

The project on Emerging Technologies and Implications of Next Generation Innovation System Development (“Rising Powers”), which involves HSE ISSEK, has launched its official blog. One of its recent posts is on the fieldwork conducted jointly by a team of researchers from the University of Manchester and Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

10%

of Russian families with children are convinced that obtaining any higher education is important for a child but that the field of study and the university do not matter. The share of people holding this view is higher (14%) among families with children who are already prospective students. These statistics were obtained during a survey of Russian families with children ranging in age from 4 to 22 years, that was conducted in the fall of 2013 as part of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO) carried out jointly by HSE and the Public Opinion Foundation.

Pension Mobility within the Eurasian Economic Union and the CIS

Joint report of the World Bank and Eurasian Development bank prepared in collaboration with the LCSR

International seminar "Crosslinguistic studies of aphasia" by Roelien Bastiaanse

Roelien Bastiaanse - professor, the head of Department of neurolinguistics in the University of Groningen

28%

of Russian families are willing to devote up to 10% of their monthly budget to ensure their children have a quality education. These data were collected during a survey of Russian families with children 4 to 22 years of age, which was conducted in the autumn of 2013 as part of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations by the Higher School of Economics in collaboration with the Public Opinion Foundation. The project is coordinated by HSE ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education.