... Internet
The Latin American virtual space was pioneered by Mexico, which was fast on the heels of its northern neighbors. While the United States and Canada launched their first local networks in July 1988, at the turn of the 1990s several major Mexican universities invested financially and intellectually into the
National Science Foundation Network
(NSF or NSFNET), which was somewhat similar to Russia’s
FidoNet
. This system became the infrastructure base and launch pad for the regional Internet,...
Yaroslav Kuzminov
, Rector of the Higher School of Economics National Research University, shares his thoughts with RIAC about universal higher education, technological interdependency of countries, and transformation of universities in the modern world. He was interviewed by RIAC programme director Ivan Timofeev and RIAC correspondent Yaroslav Menshenin.
Yaroslav Ivanovich, there used to be a joke: “Students lead a merry life between their exams, and they only ...
Latin Americans Respond to the Challenge
As was the case with the American continent before 1492, today, Latin American universities are largely terra incognita for most of the world. Known mostly to scholars from the same continent and a slim number of specialists, they are not found among the rankings of the world’s leading universities. It is now an appropriate ...
In partnership with
Venice International University (VIU)
, the
Russian International Affairs Council
and Russian universities with its corporate membership are setting up the project
"Globalization 2.0: New Approaches to Research and Teaching
" intended to establish a bilateral exchange connected to research and education initiatives on globalization ...
Conflicts and universities
The events that we are, regrettably, witnessing pose a serious challenge to the current approach to international interaction, be it in the global financial and lending system, and in education and research systems – in which universities ...
On December 2, 2014, RIAC Program Manager
Ekaterina Chimiris
and Program Coordinator
Anna Kuznetsova
made a report “Promotion of Universities in Global Internet” at the Russian-Italian conference
“Globalization 2.0: New Approaches to Teaching and Research
” held at the
Venice International University
.
The highly responsive participants, among them representatives ...
... Director Ivan Timofeev.
Presenting the RIAC education program, Dr. Timofeev said that "
quite recently we have been talking about the Internet revolution that now seems practically over, having opened a host of opportunities. However, Russian universities still underuse them, running into such problems as low international ratings, poor influx of foreign students and teachers, as well as insufficient recognition of Russian university brands abroad.
"
Attended by heads of the MSLU departments,...
On 8 September 2014, the RIAC held a symposium “Promoting Russian Universities on the Foreign Internet and Academic Press”. The event gathered representatives of universities that are corporate members and partners of the Council.
RIAC General Director
Andrei Kortunov
opened the symposium by pointing out the ...
... international studies.
Higher Education: the Triple Jump
By the end of the 19
th
century, the Humboldt University model (academic freedom and the combination of teaching with research) became dominant around the world. The social role and the mission of universities of this type primarily consisted in maintaining and transmitting a system of values. Starting from the 1920s, the world has gradually been departing from this system. Once unregulated in Humboldt model, scientific research is now harnessed ...
Universities are in effect acquiring two key dimensions, i.e. offline and online. Offline educational efforts are being currently monitored by the Russian Federation Ministry for Education and Science and the Federal Education and Science Supervision ...
