Interview with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Politics at New York University
Interview
Words can be interpreted in many ways, but mathematical formulas do not allow for such ambiguity. Rigorous application of mathematics in the study of politics brings clarity and weight to research. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Politics at New York University, built a computer model based on mathematical algorithms that can predict the outcome of complex negotiations and potentially coercive situations...
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Advancement of Russian scientific achievements abroad and improvement of positions of Russian universities in university ratings is gaining importance. In an interview to Snob magazine on existing projects, initiatives and tasks of his ministry, Deputy Education Minister Igor Fedyukin underlined that solution of the numerous problems in Russian science and education requires, among other things, participation in the international scholarly processes.
Foreign publications offer a way out, but authors ...
Higher education is a major but somewhat underestimated resource of Russia's influence, but Russian universities do become visible at the international market of learning. At the same time, export of educational services and internationalization of the sector ...
The Russian Academy of Sciences should die a natural death
Interview
Loren R. Graham
enjoys talking about the reform of Russia’s educational system, after all, it is a subject he has been studying for over 50 years. MIT professor and scholar at the Russian Studies Center in Harvard, Graham has published almost 20 books on education in the Soviet Union and Russia including Science ...
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 ...
