Centre for Vocational Education and Skills Development

Publications

• Book

  Stepanov A. K., Лихачев А. А., Silchev V. et al.

  Management practices of Russian companies. Vol. 1

  This collection of compact cases on management practices in Russian companies was produced by professors of HSE Graduate School of Business and other units of HSE University and resulted from a joint project between HSE GSB and The Case Centre, the one of the top case clearing houses globally. The cases in this volume reflect on a wide range of the current issues in business management, such as Strategic Management, Business Innovation, Supply Chain Management, Brand Management, ESG and Business Ethics, Talent Management, Entrepreneurship, as well as doing business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  This case collection is recommended for students, participants and faculty of various programs in management — from Bachelor and Master to MBA and Executive Education.
  
  Recommended for publication by the Academic Council of the Graduate School of Business, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

  M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2022.

• Article

  Goshin M. E., Kupriyanov B., Sorokin P. S.

  The agency of students involved in the practice of School Participatory Budgeting

  This article explores School Participatory Budgeting (SPB) as an important practice that provides students with opportunities to show their agency, or the ability to proactively influence social structures and institutions. The study explores the manifestations of agency among schoolchildren involved in SPB. The empirical base of the study includes the results of a survey of 670 students in grades 7-11, conducted from May to October 2023 in 32 regions of Russia. The survey contained questions about the specific practices in which schoolchildren participated. The level of agency was determined using a specially developed methodology that allows for the assessment of students’ agency in various fields, such as family, education process, school life, interaction with peers, and income. The results showed that schoolchildren’s level of agency is closely related to their involvement in SPB. The higher the level of agency, the higher the level of involvement in SPB. A high level of agency and the maximum degree of involvement are only typical for a small percentage of respondents. The main motives for schoolchildren’s participation in SPB are personal development, the acquisition of new skills and knowledge, and social mobility. Participants in SPB with the highest level of agency often seek changes in existing practices and regulations and the implementation of socially significant projects aimed at improving the life of the school community.

  Journal of Educational Policies. 2024. Vol. 18. P. e96046.

• Book chapter

  Pavel Sorokin, Froumin I., Chernenko S.

  Entrepreneurship Education in Post-Soviet Higher Education Systems: Moving into or Resisting Global Entrepreneurial Culture

  The universal “promise of entrepreneurship” has gone far beyond the borders of countries where it emerged. Education systems might play an important role in this process by legitimizing entrepreneurship related myths, principles, and social hierarchies. Surprisingly, against the literature on the role of education in producing and allocating human capital, entrepreneurship education development on organizational, national, and global scale is only emerging as a theme of mainstream academic discussions. This paper applies multi-level approach to get insights on what role might higher education have in promot- ing global “entrepreneurial culture,” with a focus on post-Soviet countries. We analyze supra-national initiatives, national policies, leading universities’ practices, and the actual characteristics of entrepreneurship education programs in these universities. Our results suggest that drivers of entrepreneurship education development in national higher education systems of post-Soviet countries are not only the “concrete” and “technical” institutional factors on the national level, but also the broader cultural environment. Though institutional environment in post-Soviet countries does not always objectively meet high international standards we found many cases when official policy docu- ments state goals related to teaching entrepreneurship in higher education and there are concrete programs devoted to entrepreneurship education sharing largely similar “entrepreneurial” worldviews. We also found that the actual perceptions and strategies of the actors directly involved in entrepreneurship education practices demonstrate much higher similarity than formally declared education policies in the related countries.

  In bk.: Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings. Vol. 82: Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2022. P. 161-215.

• Working paper

  Dudyrev F., Froumin I., Maltseva V. et al.

  WorldSkills Approaches to Comparable Skills Assessment in Vocational Education

  This report aims at discovering the capacity of  WorldSkills approaches in objective and comparable skills assessment in vocational education. Authors study the best practices of the four countries (Russia, Australia, United Kingdom, Netherlands) in embedding WorldSkills standards and procedures to national TVET systems. Prospects of  WorldSkills approaches to objective skills assessment in building internationally comparable skills assessment in TVET are discussed. This report was produced at the initiative of the Union “WorldSkills Russia” in partnership with representatives of the WorldSkills movement in Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. This paper shall be of interest for researchers and experts in the field of technical and vocational skills assessment, managers and policy-makers in technical and vocational education (TVET).

  Современная аналитика образования. Институт образования НИУ ВШЭ, 2019