Michael Barber, Professor, Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education on School Standards (1997-2001), chief education advisor at Pearson, leading Pearsons worldwide programme of research into education policy and the impact of its products and services on learner outcomes, London,...

Vladimir Satsyk - Candidate of Sciences, research fellow at The Institute of Higher Education, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman. Address: 54/1, Pobedy av., Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine. E-mail: vsatsik@gmail.comThe author considers key factors of universities global...

Introduction of new technologies into production process has provoked various changes on the labor market: creation and demand increase for one professions and destruction of another jobs. Such situation issues the challenges for the education system in a whole and for professional education in...

The article is focused on the differences between university statutes of 1803-1804 years which were given to Vilna (or Vilnius) university and Dorpat (or Tartu) university and three Russian universities in Moscow, Kharkov and Kazan. The authors analyze not only the management of universities,...

This empirical study deals with the conditions of psychological discomfort in 60 students in traumatic stress situations and with the role of defense in the overcoming of a psychological trauma. The data was elicited using the questionnaire Traumatic events and emotional conditions in stress...

In the current article the author is pushing forward a thesis that supporters and opponents of academic scholarships adhere to different paradigms of education: the western modernist paradigm of education and the Russian paradigm of the state of service class. According to the first one higher...

Aleksandr Auzan, Ph.D. in Economics, Professor, Incumbent Dean of Economic Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, member of the Presidential Economic Council. Email: auzan@mail.econ.msu.ru Address: 1 Leninskiye Gory St., Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation....

Vera Kharchenko, teaching assistant in the Theoretical and Applied Sociology Department of Sociology Faculty, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Ural State Pedagogical University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, award winner in the 2012 Young...

In the current article authors analyze the conditions for the production of different versions of sociological education in terms of sociology of knowledge. They focus on national educational standards and their impact on curriculum development at the regional level. Authors use empirical data...