Education

In early June, Anna Kobtseva and Natalia Isaeva visited Hong Kong to strengthen collaboration with leading universities, discuss opportunities for joint educational programmes, and take part in an international dialogue on the future of educational leadership.

How are universities, vocational education systems, and researcher training programmes evolving in response to new challenges? These questions were at the heart of the international forum ‘Reconfiguring Education in a Changing World: Russia–China Dialogues on Higher Education, Skills, and Research Training’, held in China in mid-June. The event was jointly organised by the HSE Institute of Education and the Graduate School of Education of Peking University, which hosted the forum on its campus.

The XXVI April International Academic Conference named after Evgeny Yasin took place in Moscow from 14 to 17 April. The section devoted to educational studies was organised by the Institute of Education and featured presentations by leading international researchers.

The XIX International Scientific and Practical Conference “An Adolescent in the City: Facets of Sociality” brought together researchers and practitioners on April 7–8, 2026, at the HSE Institute of Education in Moscow. The event was organised by the Non-profit Partnership for the Development of Children and Adolescents ‘Perekrestok Plus’, in collaboration with the HSE Institute of Education and the RANEPA Faculty of Psychology.

Researchers from the Centre of Sociology of Higher Education, the Centre for Psychometrics and Measurement in Education, and the Laboratory for Curriculum Designat the Institute of Education are conducting a large-scale, longitudinal study examining how students navigate university life, and the relationship between different behavioural patterns and academic success.

How should international education data be interpreted? What might we overlook if we focus only on country rankings? These questions were at the heart of the HSE Open Seminar on Education, led by Professor Kit-Tai Hau from CUHK.

What does success after university really look like today? Is it still a straightforward journey from graduation to a stable career, or are graduates increasingly navigating more complex routes through education and employment?

Online learning promises flexibility. In asynchronous courses, students can decide when, how, and in what order to engage with learning materials. Yet this freedom comes with new challenges. Without a prescribed learning sequence, students must design their own pathways, and these choices can shape not only how much they learn, but how difficult learning feels.

Researchers discovered that language proficiency tests could be significantly shortened by processing responses more effectively. An international team of scholars, including a researcher from the Institute of Education, demonstrated this using data from around 3,000 students who took English listening tests.