How Political Whims and Woes Have Afflicted Education Internationalization
It was back into the summer of 2018 when Dr. Hans de Wit, a renowned authority on global higher education, came up with a call for essays on wins and losses of academic internationalization over the past quarter-century to be featured in University World News. Irina Shcheglova, researcher at the IOE Center for the Sociology of Higher Education, was only too enthralled to take up this challenge.
A new research article in the Journal of Academic Ethics
Student academic dishonesty is a pervasive problem for universities all over the world. The development of innovative practices and interventions for decreasing dishonest behaviour requires understanding factors influencing academic dishonesty. Previous research showed that personal, environmental, and situational factors affect dishonest behaviour at a university. The set of factors and the strength of their influence can differ across countries. There is a lack of research on factors affecting student dishonesty in Russia. A sample of 15,159 undergraduate students from eight Russian highly selective universities was surveyed to understand what factors influence their decision to engage in dishonest behaviour.
Are Russian Students Becoming More Dishonest During College?
One of the biggest challenges for the Russian higher education system is to combat academic dishonesty among students. Why do the Russian students tend to become more dishonest during college? What is wrong with Russian universities and how to solve the problem of academic dishonesty.
A new book International Status Anxiety and Higher Education: The Soviet Legacy in China & Russia is out
The book 'International Status Anxiety and Higher Education: The Soviet Legacy in China & Russia' has been recently published by the University of Hong Kong. The scientific advisor of the CSHE, Igor Chirikov, served as an editor of the book.
Expanding horizons of our projects
In the beginning of June our Center conducted a round-table meeting with a professor of Bremen University Andreas Breiter to discuss opportunities and challenges of Doctoral education in Russia and Germany.
Student Winners to Research Cheating in Online Courses
HSE has announced the winners of the Academicus Modus competition of student projects. They will receive a year-long grant for their research, the results of which will be published in an academic journal.
HSE at SERU-I: five years of change
Last year HSE took part in the international project “Student Experience in the ResearchUniversity” (SERU-I) for the third time. This research gives an opportunity for undergraduate students all over the world to share their educational experience through completing the same questionnaire. The new issue of “That’s So HSE” presents SERU-I project results.
New publication in the journal of Higher Education
The research article 'National barriers to the completion of doctoral programs at Russian universities' by Natalia Maloshonok and Evgeniy Terentev has been published in the International Journal of Higher Education Research. Congratulations to our colleagues.