Author: Knyaginina, Nadezhda

In Russia, many spheres of life are regulated by laws, standards, norms, and education is no exception. To ease the oppression of inspections in industries, a government reform is underway — a «regulatory guillotine», which should remove unnecessary rules, leaving only reasonable and really necessary for the state to effectively control. However, the analysis of the state standard in the field of education (FGOS) is associated with additional restrictions.

The event was organized by the National Research University Higher School of Economics together with the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science.

The article by Nadezhda Knyaginina, Junior Research Fellow of the Center for Education Law, and Diana Yanbarisova, Junior Research Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology and Anthropology of the HSE Institute of Education, was published in the magazine «Education policy».

On the 22th of August, 2017 there was a lecture in the Moscow’s Central Children’s Shop. Nadezhda Knyaginina, junior researcher at the Center for Educational Law of the HSE Institute of Education, talked about children’s rights and why adults should treat them with respect.

Moscow State Pedagogical University hosted a coordination meeting on the 2-4th of October, 2017. The topic of the meeting was "Introducing Modules on Law and Rights in Programs of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences: a Contribution to Building Rights-Based Education Systems in Countries in Transition".

On the 14^th of November, 2016 the Institute of Education hosted a meeting for the heads of educational institutions in Moscow – participants of the Consortium of Education Laboratories and HSE’s University’s Cluster. The event was organized by the Center for Leadership Development and the Center for Legal Applied Development of the Institute of Education.

Members of the Centre for Applied Legal Research Szymon Jankiewicz and Nadezhda Knyaginina participated in the Global University Summit BRICS. The Summit is an official event of Russia’s chairmanship in BRICS 2015-2016. The forum was held by MGIMO, MSU, RUDN and MISIS.