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In a world where education increasingly transcends borders, Ekaterina Minaeva, Ulyana Zakharova, and Svetlana Zhuchkova set off on a research journey to explore the untapped potential of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a tool for attracting international students. Their study, published in EMOOCs 2025, asks a timely question: Can online learning platforms like Coursera and edX become the next frontier in global student recruitment?

On Monday, December 8, the Institute of Education hosted a delegation from the Institute of Education Theory, part of the China National Academy of Educational Sciences (CNAES), for a welcome meeting and exchange. Building on years of collaboration, the two institutes reaffirmed their shared research interests and discussed new opportunities for joint projects.

On 23–28 November, the 17th Asian Conference on Education (ACE2025) was held in Tokyo. It brought together colleagues from the International Laboratory of Research and Design in eLearning of the Institute of Education.

A new article by an international team of researchers, including Evgeniy Terentev, Director of the HSE Institute of Education, provides a comprehensive analysis of over 4,000 academic publications on Generative AI in higher education from 2022 to 2024.

Colleagues from the Centre of Sociology of Higher Education and the Academy of Future Education at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University analysed the interim results of implementing the Double Reduction Policy in the Chinese educational system, delving into a systematic literature review. The article has been published in a special issue of the ‘Educational Studies Moscow’ Journal.

In October, the HSE Institute of Education fellows presented a wide range of research initiatives at the annual World Education Research Association (WERA) conference in João Pessoa, Brazil.

When the COVID-19 pandemic upended daily life, it didn’t just close schools and offices—it redrew the map of family life. A study by Mikhail Goshin, Dmitry Grigoryev, Pavel Sorokin, and Polina Bochkareva, published in Frontiers in Psychology, explores how parenting styles and extracurricular activities (ECA) shaped children’s ability to adapt, stay creative, and take charge of their lives during those tumultuous years. The findings shed light on how lockdowns quietly rewired the dynamics between parents and children—and, in many cases, helped young people discover unexpected forms of independence.

On 17–18 October, the IV Tsinghua Forum on Higher Education, an annual international platform for discussing key trends and challenges in higher education development, was held at the Southeast Campus of Tsinghua University (Bali, Indonesia). This year, the forum was dedicated to the future of internationalisation in higher education.

October at the HSE Institute of Education concluded with the XVI International Conference on Higher Education (ICHE), dedicated to the theme ‘Higher Education: Between Private and Public Good.’ This year’s event brought together over 700 participants from 32 regions of Russia and eight countries, who engaged in a vibrant discussion on the evolving role of higher education in society.

Three decades ago, China set out to build universities that could rival the world’s best—and it succeeded. Now, one of its leading scholars says the same model that powered that rise is holding it back. At ICHE Conference 2025, Professor Rui Yang called for a rethink of how knowledge—not just output—should drive the future.