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Our Committee is aware that HSE has not renewed the contracts of certain faculty members known for speaking up against the Russian political authorities. We understand that the non-renewals have been controversial in the press and online. Although the university administration says that these actions were due entirely to faculty’s inadequate research productivity, critics allege that non-renewals were politically motivated, i.e., that they resulted from pressure by the authorities.
The eighth annual session of the HSE International Advisory Committee has come to a close. Its chairman Eric Maskin, Nobel laureate in economics, summed up the results of the committee’s work.
University rankings, which increasingly impact both universities' development strategies and state policy in higher education, was one of the main topics discussed at the meeting of the HSE's International Advisory Committee.