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On March 6 there was a meeting with students of the master's programme "Social Comparative Research". Representatives of the centers of the Institute of Education introduced the main projects they are working on and invited students to join their projects.

Sincere congratulations to Evgenia Shmeleva who was awarded the "Silver Nestling". Evgenia's colleagues are proud of her outstanding achievements in studies and research, admire her proactive attitude, aspiration for self-development and wish her success in future.

The director of the Center of Sociology of Higher Education was appointed Vice Rector for Students and Alumni Affairs.

Tatiana Semenova' s preprint "Participation in massive open online courses: the effect of learner motivation and engagement on achievement" has been published in HSE series "Education".

The Center of Sociology of Higher Education has been coordinating the International Consortium "Student Experience in Research University" together with the University of California – Berkeley (USA) for seversl years. At the moment the research team is working on broadening the project: it is planned to study not only undergraduate students but graduate students as well. In University of Utrecht (October 10-11, 2016) there was Symposium “GradSERU Europe and Beyond” where advantages and challenges were discussed.

A group of HSE staff has launched a Kickstarter account to raise funds for an unusual project – a monument to an anonymous peer reviewer. If enough money is raised, the monument will be erected near the HSE Institute of Education.

Computers in Human Behavior journal (quartile 1 in Psychology category, Scopus), owned by world-leading publishing company Elsevier, features a new article by researchers at the IoE Centre of Sociology of Higher Education.