... 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 a methodology for assessing the English-language websites of universities and analyzed online resources of 65 universities....
... 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 websites of universities. The online resources of 47 universities were analysed and compared with those of 11 QS Top 100 World ...
... former foreign exchange students promote the language and culture of the host state where they have been trained. This can be more effective in improving international people-to-people relations than political or economic initiatives.
Ivan Timofeev:
Web Internationalization: Russian Universities
The Chinese government allocates great financial resources to scholarships intended for foreign students. The first Education Act, aimed at protecting the non-Chinese students’ rights, was adopted in 1995,...
... 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 Internationalization: English-Language Online Resources of Russian Universities
.”
In his opening speech RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev told the participants about the purposes, results and methodology of the research. Maria Besova, Editor-in-Chief ...
... of common problems and a list of recommendations have also been provided.
Authors
:
I. Timofeev
(Head), Ph.D. in Political Science;
T. Makhmutov
, Ph.D. in Political Science;
E. Chimiris
, Ph.D. in Political Science, A. Teslya, A. Kuznetsova.
Web Internationalization: Russian Universities
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RIAC gave the benefit of experience of its Russian universities’ e-internationalization research at refresher courses “Applied Vebometrics and Enhancement of Efficiency of the University Educational Organization Website,” held by Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
On December ...
... about the project's success.
The Russian delegation also took part in the opening of the VIU academic year, the ceremony launched by Italy's Education Minister
Stefania Giannini who emphasized the university's importance as an institution focused on internationalization and globalization.
... universities are faced with another pressing task: creating convenient conditions for their international students. Northern (Arctic) Federal University’s Vice Rector for International Cooperation
Marina Kalinina
proposed a network approach to internationalization of Russian universities.
On the basis of the Symposium results, the participants discussed further plans for cooperation between the RIAC and its corporate member and partner universities. Apart from the existing formats of cooperation,...
Interview with Donald Wertlieb, Tufts University
Interview
The term “internationalization” has become the buzzword for Russian scholars. We have asked Donald Wertlieb, Professor of Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University to comment on internationalization and globalization of knowledge.
Do ...
... education is less ethnocentric. That has been challenged a lot: there is discussion within American, British, Canadian and Australian academia about their tendency to be quite isolated from conditions in other countries. Globalization can allow for internationalization, for a dialogue between different parts of the world. That is mostly what I see on the positive side.
The negative side, though, is looking at globalization in a very specific sense, and that is as a narrower economic phenomenon where ...
