Report № 64/2020
Report № 64/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on many areas of society, and the higher education sector is no exception. The activities of higher education systems and individual educational institutions have faced tangible transformations. The report analyzes the consequences of the pandemic for the development of higher education in the ...
... services. However, Russian universities still have something to offer, while at the same time meeting both the economic and foreign political interests of the country. Nonetheless, Russian education should not be transformed into a cheap alternative to education in the West. Universities in the capital and the regions need to adapt the educational process to the needs of foreign students, while maintaining and, ideally, improving the quality of education. This falls within the purview of both the universities themselves, ...
Report No. 40/2018
Report No. 40/2018
This report is the result of a new stage in the research of the online English-language resources on the websites of Russian universities and is a follow-up to the initial report produced by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) entitled «Web Internationalization: Russian Universities» in 2015. This issue provides a new ranking as of 2017–2018. The authors developed ...
On September 27, 2018, professors and post-graduates of Seoul National University and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies visited RIAC.
On September 27, 2018, professors and post-graduates of Seoul National University and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies visited RIAC.
The guests from the Republic of Korea discussed the current state of security issues on the Korean Peninsula, the prospects for bilateral relations between North Korea and the United States, the role of Russia and China...
RIAC Report #31 / 2017
This report is the result of a new stage in the research of the online English-language resources on the websites of Russian universities and is a follow-up to the initial report produced by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) entitled “Web Internationalization: Russian Universities” in 2015.
The authors developed a methodology for assessing the English-language ...
... education and its competitiveness on the global level. As a result, the government launched a number of programmes, with projects "211" and "985" being the most significant.
The main goal of these initiatives was to raise Chinese universities’ research and education standards by stimulating them financially (including funding from local authority budgets), reforming the management system, boosting their academic mobility and expanding relations with the world’s leading institutions. For example, 112 ...
... community. This calls for fundamental changes. Not only Russian, but also foreign schools have to face up to these challenges.
The first dilemma universities have to deal with has to do with striking a balance between market and non-market aspects of education. On the one hand, universities are increasingly regarded as business ventures operating in a market environment and relying on marketing and management tools. Creating so-called diploma mills is not an uncommon strategy. The market approach usually enjoys better odds of ...
On March 22, 2016 an open discussion “108 Soft Power Elements of Russian Universities on the Internet” took place at the venue of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The discussion was devoted to the publication of the English version of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) report “
Electronic ...
Report No. 24/2016
This Report was prepared as part of the study carried out by the Russian International Affairs Council on the role of the Internet in internationalizing Russian universities.
The authors developed a methodology for assessing the English-language sites of Russian universities, carrying out an analysis of 45 resources and comparing them with the websites of 11 leading foreign universities that appear in the QS ...
... education and they’ve looked towards placing students in Academy institutes and so forth. It’s generally accepted outside of Russia and an item of controversy in Russia about whether it’s a more effective system to link research and education at universities. In a place like United States this is not argued about it all, because non-academic research institutes have all but disappeared: Bell Labs, United technology research centers, GE Lab – they all mostly gone. So all of that basic research ...