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 world, as well as the reactions of higher education systems in response to the emerging challenges and threats. At the...
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Internationalization and the Changing Paradigm of Higher Education in the GCC Countries
According to the author’s definition, internationalization is the process of integration of international components into the country's higher education system. Although universities have always developed international cooperation, globalization has created a new context for internationalization. Over the past decades, the number of educational institutions and students studying in them has sharply increased in the region....
Russian universities can offer an interesting alternative to the suffering education systems of Syria and Lebanon
Historically, Syria and Lebanon form a single region and events in one country inevitably influence the other. These states have always maintained ...
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 ...
- Universities websites: a business ticket for the countriesAttracting students from all over the world can be a useful and successful way to gain prestige among the other countries and, to some extents, it can be one of the foreign policy directives of ...
On January, 30,
Andrey Kortunov
, RIAC Director General, gave a public lecture "Russia in the New World Order: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies" at Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1). The lecture was attended by 300 people, including Sorbonne University professors and postgraduate students, Paris think-tanks representatives, journalists and diplomats. Louis Gautier, Head of Department for Current Strategic Challenges, and Justin Vaisse, director of the Policy Planning staff...
... recognised educational hub started not long ago. In 1998, President Jiang Zemin in his speech that marked the 100-year anniversary of the Peking University, set an ambitious goal to upgrade the system of higher education in China in order to push Chinese universities to the top of the world’s ratings. The plan did not only include increasing the quantity of national higher education institutions and the number of graduates (in 1998, there were only 8 million graduates in China and by 2005, the number ...
There are now fewer people speaking Russian around the world, and the number of experts on Russia is on the decline. Russian universities will clearly have a hard time competing against the top British and US schools and could focus on areas in which they are recognized as leaders.
According to the discourse both within and beyond Russia, the two key issues the country is facing ...
