Education

A seminar for headmasters of the Moscow Region "School endowment (endowment fund) as a tool for financial development of an educational organization and a way to attract investment" was held In the Reception Hall of the Government House of the Moscow Region in Krasnogorsk.

Опубликован препринт С.В. Янкевича и Н.В. Княгининой «The Language of the Republic at School: Who Decides?». Авторами исследуется вопрос, может ли республика Российской Федерации установить обязанность изучать государственный язык республики в школе.

Professor Jan de Groof, Academic Supervisor of the Center for Education Law of the HSE Institute of Education, gave a lecture at the Faculty of Law as a part of the course “Educational Law”.

University of Bialystok (Poland) held its third internship within the project EduLaw “Introducing modules on law and rights in programmes of teacher training and educational sciences: A contribution to building rights-based education systems in countries in transition”.

One of the main results of the «Week of Educational Rights» was the decision to prepare a new commentary to the Federal Law on Education. It will be the first bilingual commentary in Russian law based on a detailed analysis of the international law, the decisions of the European court for human rights and the legislation of the foreign countries.

Professor from Roma Tre University, Pablo Meix Cereceda, outlined the critical areas of concern of the report and, in particular, the theoretical basis of inclusive education, international regulation of the problem, approach to he issue from the position of constitutional law, analysis of the practice of positive discrimination.

The language of education is an important factor which determines its quality and gives everyone an equal access to education opportunities – that is how Jan de Groof, Academic Supervisor of the Center for Education Law of the HSE Institute of Education, began his greeting speech as a part of lectures dedicated to the question “How to solve conflicts in language policy? – Federalism, Autonomy, Pluralism, Identity, Access and Inclusion”.

Students of the HSE Faculty of Law will be answering teachers and directors’ questions on legal problems concerning education during the “helpline” on 273-фз.рф.

On the 4^th of September, 2017 Maris Smirnova, senior researcher of the Center for Educational Law of the Institute of Education has started her work as an Associate Human Rights Officer in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She will take part in the preparation of the 36^th session of the UN Council, which will be held in Geneva from 11 to 29^th of September 2017.