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University World News - Policy think-tank set up ahead of annual BRICS summit
Academics from the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – this week established a policy think-tank ahead of the fifth BRICS summit to be held in Durban. South Africa called for strengthening research collaboration and academic exchange in the global South, and placing knowledge production at the heart of the emerging country bloc.
Time - Putin’s Ph.D.: Can a Plagiarism Probe Upend Russian Politics?
It’s an open secret in Russia today that many politicians and businessmen pad their resumes with fake diplomas, either plagiarizing their dissertations or paying someone to do it for roughly the cost of a midsize sedan.
Thomson Reuters - BRICK Report, Global Research Report
The report, “Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea,” tracks global research publications, R&D spend and patent filings over a 10-year period to gauge benchmarks of economic innovation in the BRICK countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Korea.
The Hindu - Fake doctorates: Russia to crack down on academic fraud
The Russian government is mounting a crackdown on academic fraud after a ministerial probe uncovered extensive plagiarisms and numerous violations of doctoral requirements at Moscow’s prestigious State Pedagogical University.
Voice of Russia - Medvedev's Latin America tour: Russia, Brazil ramp up trust
Education programs was one of the iddues on the agenda of a two-day visit to Brazil by Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
FARS News Agency - Iranian, Russian Universities Sign Cooperation MoU
Iran's Sari Agricultural and National Resources University and Russian Astrakhan University inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the fields of science and research.
Inside Higher Ed - New Russian technical university has high aspirations
If you could build a new university on a “greenfield” – or a snowy, white field, as the case might be – what would it look like? The founders of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), a graduate-only university founded in 2011 outside Moscow, are collaborating with faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a university that embodies many of the principles hottest in higher education today: interdisciplinarity, problem-based learning, research for innovation and entrepreneurship, and internationalization.
Voice of Russia - 'Regarding the nr of foreign students, Moscow State University is at the world level'
"Attracting foreign students is a competitive field. At our branches, a significant part of the communication with the leading scientists, which is not included in the program and is oriented on personal progress, is carried out in a distant mode," Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of the Moscow State University, told the Voice of Russia.
Russia Beyond The Headlines - New education law sparks debates in Russia
A new education law confirms current educational practices on a federal level, while introducing new practices and shifting responsibility for poor performance and second-rate teaching.
EPW - The Prospects for the BRICs: The New Academic Superpowers?
Brazil, Russia, India and China - the BRIC countries - show impressive growth in their higher education systems and promise to expand and improve them in the coming decades. Yet, it is by no means assured that they will achieve the academic prominence that is more likely in the economic or political spheres. Each faces significant challenges. This essay analyses some of the systemic factors that affect higher education in the BRICs and also the central prerequisite for academic development and excellence - the academic profession.
Russia & India Report - Being an Indian medical student in Russia
Alumni of various Russian universities share their experiences of being a student in Russia.
Russian Press - Students Protest Against Closure of Their “Inefficient” University
Students at the Russian State University of Trade and Economics have organized a sit-in to protest against a government plan to shut down their university, which was included in a “list of inefficient colleges.” The Russian Students’ Union anticipates similar protests across the country.
Nature - Russia shakes up its universities
Government plans to close struggling institutions and increase funding to the best.
Peace and Conflict Monitor - Multilingual Education in Russia
School graduates face a difficult choice: for whom to study? It would seem to be easy. It suffices to look at the ratings and determine what professions are the most relevant, in which area there is the largest wage increase and is now the biggest shortage.
Voice of Russia - Russia to allocate more money to train foreign students
The Russian government is planning to raise the quota for training foreign students at Russian universities at state expense from 10,000 to 15,000 students
The PIE News - Russian language school celebrates 20 years
Over 100 guests from 20 countries recently flew to St Petersburg in Russia to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Liden & Denz Language Centres, one of the oldest private Russian teaching schools in the country
Russia & India Report - Many prestigious Russian colleges acknowledged as ineffective
A veritable tempest broke out in Russian higher education, as the Ministry of Education and Science said a considerable portion of state-run colleges was ineffective.
Chemistry World - Russia targets top spots in university league tables
The Russian government has earmarked RUB9 billion (£178 million) to enable its leading national universities to break into the top 100 in the global league tables. In a recent decree, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, announced plans that would see at least five of the country’s universities enter the top 100 by 2020.
Pravda - Russia, China, Iran close ranks in Tajikistan
The Republic of Tajikistan, a comparatively small country with a size of 143.000 square kilometers, plays a pivotal role in Central Asia, just like its neighbours, Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west and Kyrgyzstan in the north.
Today Online - Russia willing to fund S'poreans for higher education in Russian universities
Russia is willing to fund a number of Singaporeans for higher education in Russian universities, said Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shulakov and his delegation.
The PIE News - How is Russia's international education market developing?
Russia has announced it will double the number of scholarships for foreign students at its universities from 10,000 to 20,000 in a further bid to increase overseas interest in its education system.
The Chronicle of Higher Education - Russia Unveils a $2-Billion Campus on the Edge of China
Yet Moscow has invested billions of dollars here in hopes of attracting some of the world's brightest young people and reviving a steadily shrinking local economy in this geopolitically sensitive region on the edge of China.
The PIE News - Student mobility in Pacific Rim tops APEC agenda
Boosting student exchange and mobility in the Pacific Rim region was high on the agenda at the recent Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok, Russia, as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard prioritised a deal to open up the region’s higher education market.
University World News - China has become preferred destination for medical education
Six years ago, when he was preparing to sit for multiple medical entrance examinations, Dr Vishal Swaroop had not heard of Liaoning province in China, five hours east of Beijing. Today he has a medical degree from Liaoning Medical University in the coastal city of Jinzhou.
The Australian - Offshore campus drive at APEC
Julia Gillard is taking an ambitious agenda for reforms of higher education to Russia this week that could see the rapid expansion of offshore campuses around the Asia-Pacific.
The Moscow Times - Education Reform Inching Forward
As thousands of high school graduates enter universities on Saturday, a hotly debated bill to reform the nation's education system is inching forward. A controversial plan already three years in the making, the bill promises the biggest shake-up of schools and universities since the 1990s, giving students more choice over the subjects they study and changing how universities are funded.
CRIEnglish.com - Chinese Vice Premier Welcomes Russian Students
Vice Premier Li Keqiang met with visiting Russian university students at the Great Hall of the People on Friday. Three hundred students and faculty members from Moscow State University of Russia attended the meeting.
Open Equal Free - Last First Day of School Coming Up for Many Russian Universities
There are too many universities in Russia. This is the opinion of senior education officials, who have watched the number of colleges and institutes skyrocket from 300 at the time of the USSR’s collapse to 3,000 at present.
Surgar Daily - Russia to send graduates abroad
By 2013, the Russian government could be paying tuition for the country’s best and brightest at foreign universities.
Russia Beyond The Headlines - Some Russian universities to close
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced his support for a plan to improve the quality of education in Russia at the expense of quantity.