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Within expert seminar, the discussion of the problem acquired a practical focus. Emphasis was placed on the approaches to solve the problem developed by the researchers.

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.

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 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.

Giving oath near the monument to the anonymous reviewer, quest around the departments of the Institute, historical tour around the surrounding area – that is how the Day of Knowledge went for the first-year students of the master’s degree programmes “Measurement in Psychology and Education” and “Evidence-based Educational 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.

Szymon Jankiewicz, Director of the Center for Educational Law has published his article “Legal regulation of licensing and state accreditation of the adapted programs in higher education” in the Legal Studies Journal.

Dr. Jan de Groof, a world-renowned authority on international & comparative education law who is Professor with the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and Tilburg University (the Netherlands), and also heads the European Association for Education Law and Policy (ELA), has recently joined the HSE Institute of Education as Academic Supervisor with the Centre for Education Law. During his recent visit to Moscow, we talked to Dr. de Groof about today’s top-priority education law agenda and the way multiple stakeholders’ commitments to striking a better balance in education rights help carve out more robust paths to global sustainability.

On April 7, 2017, at the invitation of the Institute for Education and the Faculty of Law at the Higher School of Economics, professor Jan De Groof read a lecture "Modern and Future Challenges in Educational Law and Educational Rights, especially in Russia''.