Research & Expertise

The Russian and Chinese postgraduate education systems originally borrowed their institutional frameworks from the Soviet Union. However, in the 21st century, they have evolved along different paths. While key performance indicators for postgraduate programmes in Russia are declining, China is seeing a rapid increase in the number of postgraduate students. These contrasting trajectories and the reforms undertaken in each country in recent decades were the focus of a roundtable discussion held as part of the 25th Yasin (April) International Academic Conference.

To successfully defend a doctoral dissertation, PhD candidates need not only the support of their academic supervisor and close friends and relatives, but also system-wide assistance from the university department or faculty where they study. However, HSE University researchers have found that such support can take different forms and that each has a different effect on how confident a student feels in their ability to successfully defend their dissertation. The results of their study were published in the journal Higher Education Quarterly.

New article by the Center for Sociology of Higher Education in collaboration with colleagues from Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod.

The article by Oksana Dremova, Natalia Maloshonok, Evgenii Terentyev and Denis Federyakin was published in the European Journal of Higher Education

Found out by the staff of the Center for Sociology of Higher Education together with colleagues from the Center for Internal Monitoring