In this article we review and discuss different explanations of the university tenure presented in the literature. For our analysis both the probation period and the lifelong employment guarantees are important. We analyze different types of models: for the first type of models the information...

The author discusses an idea of composing a list of "100 books of Higher School of Economics" as a university canon for a reader and analyzes a long-term publishing project of the Russian Christian Humanitarian Institute called "The Russian way".

The concepts of cultural literacy, its present-day content and quality are dramatically changing. Language as a formalized semiotic system and set of norms, and literature as a culturally privileged segment of the national verbal heritage certainly must be known and treated with due reverence....

Anna Sanina, Ph.D. in Sociology, Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration, National Research University - Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, Head of the Research and Study Group on the Economics and Sociology of Change. Email:...

Yevgeni Knyazev (1955-2013) - Doctor of Science, Professor, CEO, Center for University Management, Institute for Educational Studies, National Research University - Higher School of Economics.Natalya Drantusova (1971-2013) - Candidate of Science, Senior Researcher, Center for University...

Based on the data obtained by Yuri Levada Analytical CenterNatalya Bondarenko, senior researcher in the Living Standards Department of Levada Center, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: nut@levada.ru Address: 17 Nikolskaya St., Moscow, 109012, Russian Federation.Using results of annual polls of...

David Konstantinovsky, D.Sc. in Sociology, Director of the Center for Sociology of Education, Science and Culture, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: scan21@mail.ru Address: Bld. 5, 24/35 Krzhizhanovskogo St., Moscow, 117218, Russian...