On September 14, RIAC General Director Andrey Kortunov spoke at the all-Russia conference “Internationalization of Social and Human Sciences in Russian Higher Education Institutions: Challenges and Prospects”.
Among the participants of the conference organized by ISE Center were representatives of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, experts from RAS specialized institutes, the executive and teaching ...
... potential of individual researchers, organizations and countries.
Publications by Russian scientists in international journals: a lot or a little?
The preparation of the
Presidential Decree
“On measures to implement the state policy in the field of education and science” (May 2012) () relied on this logic. Among other things, the Decree set the task of ensuring the achievement of the following indicators: education – at least five Russian universities should make it in the top one hundred ...
Full professors are not obliged to continue publishing
Foreign opinion
Mark N. Katz has just begun his 25th year of teaching at George Mason University. He was promoted to full professor in his 10th year there.
The common view of the pressures that professors face in American academia is embodied in the alliterative phrase, “publish or perish.” The truth, though, is more complicated—and less draconian—than this phrase suggests.
The type of academic position that someone...
... dismal trends solely to the lack of public funding. But that is just naive.
Why do we have so few good, competitive texts worthy of publication in Western journals? And why are even these texts difficult to turn into articles, i.e. to get published?
Education, our whip...
It is, above all, the knowledge of the current theoretical and methodological approaches and the ability to apply them correctly.
One of the most obvious reasons for the low competitiveness of Russian political scientists and international ...
... involvement of foreign experts in assessment of research projects, development of relations with Russian-speaking scientists working abroad. For the last five to seven years, attempts have also been made to adopt Western models in the scientific and educational sphere – namely, to strengthen the university science, promote its integration with education, develop the innovative infrastructure of higher education institutions in order to make them able to execute the so-called “third mission” ...
... urged for migrants to be tested in Russian language, history and law. I was lucky at the Winter School to hear the views of various experts on the subject and together with other participants during business games work out the business model of such an educational centre at the university. Returning from school, I began translating this idea into practice. Thanks to the leadership of the university, the Rector, Nikolai Petrovich Kosarev, and first pro-rector Mikhail Borisovich Nosyrev, who supported ...
... conference “
Internationalization imperatives
” which was organized by the
National Workforce Training Fund
in cooperation with the
Russian International Affairs Council
and the
New Eurasia Foundation
with support from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on May 24, 2012. The conference was attended by prominent specialists from Russia, USA, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Singapore and Kazakhstan: M. Miner, J. Sadlak, A. Dosmak, P. Rolfe,...
... scientific work among young international affairs scholars. Over 50 people – winners, contest organizers and guests- took part in the ceremony.
In the opening word
Igor Ivanov
, RIAC President underscored the significance of the Council’s educational program. “One of the major lines of our activities is collaboration with universities and young international affairs scholars. On the one hand, we seek to participate in devising proposals on most pressing problems of international ...
On May 4-6, 2012 in Paris
RIAC Director General A. Kortunov
held a series of working meetings with the representatives of Western academic institutes specializing in international relations studies –
Hall Gardner
, Head of the World Politics and Comparative Political Science Department of American University in Paris,
Marie Mandras
and
Anne de Tinguy,
Professors of Sciences Po University, experts on Russia,
Tatiana Kustueva-Jean
, research fellow of the French Institute of International Relations...
On April 5, 2012
Vladislav Inozemtsev
, Board member of Russian International Affairs Council, Director of the Center for Post-Industrial Society Studies, Editor-in-chief of “Svobodnaya Mysl” (Free Thought) Journal gave a lecture to the students and faculty members of St. Petersburg State University. It was devoted to a topical and highly debated issue – “Russia in the global system of geopolitical coordinates”.
In the lecture V. Inozemtsev touched upon different aspects...
