HSE and Stanford Students are Similar in Many Ways
Between September 10th and 16th,‘Stanford Week’organized by the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs took place at the HSE. Leading Stanford professors conducted short courses of lectures and master classes for students. Below is a selection of their comments about the event .
Students in World Politics
Mark Manuilov, a second-year student of the HSE Faculty of Management master’s course, told us about a new student initiative –a Russian-American forum involving the HSE, several other Moscow universities and Stanford University. Mark is one of the students who organized this project.
Stanford Week at the HSE
Between September 10th and 16th the Stanford Week organized by the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs will be held at the HSE.
Finding a Partner University is Like Making a New Friend
On August 27th and 28th the selection process for students of a joint master’s programme at the European School of Management (ESCP Europe) and the HSE Faculty of Management took place at the HSE. Henry Jolles, Director of International Development, ESCP Europe, shared his impressions on the selection and the collaboration between the two universities.
How to Measure a Civil Society
The HSE has joined the World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS), an influential independent organization which studies civil society. Irina Mersiyanova, Director of the HSE Centre for Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector Research (GRANS Centre), told us some more about this event.
Stanford + HSE: Endless Possibilities for Co-operation
On July 28th a meeting between HSE and the U.S. Department of Education representatives took place, dedicated to the ongoing collaborative project between the Higher School of Economics and Stanford University.
‘Am Rhein, am Rhein, am Deutschen Rhein...’. Understanding of the Russian-German Mass Media
Another in the series of regular visits by German students to Moscow took place recently, as part of the student exchange programme between the HSE Business and Political Journalism Department and the Cologne School of Journalism. The programme director, Prof. Elena Penskaya talked to us about the programme’s aims and objectives .
ICEF 2009: Achievements and Prospects
Recently the HSE and the London School of Economics signed a new agreement on the activities and development of the HSE International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF) for the next 4 years .
Moscow – Canterbury: The Way of Masters
Leonid Ionin, the Dean of the School of Russian Studies, told us about the joint MA programme of the HSE School of Russian Studies and the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Kent in Canterbury – “International Relations in Euroatlantic and Eurasian Societies”.
To learn means to compare
A project entitled "Morality and Trust in Old and New Market Economies" has been running since 2007 as a joint research teaching activity included in the MA Program of Applied Social Research of Markets (head - Prof. V. Radaev) at the Higher School of Economics and the Research Institute for Sociology, University of Cologne, Germany.