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...

Forty years have passed since one major social upheaval that occurred in many Western countries. It laid the foundations for a new culture and changed the education system all over the world. An international diary of the student protests in 1968 and a calendar of the events helps re"create the...

Since early 1990s, Kazakhstan reforms the higher education. The main direction of the reform are similar to those in Russia: introduction of a unified testing system for admission to universities, aggregation of universities, partial transfer of education functions to private institutions,...

Considered are reasons of the wide spread of the plagiarism in students, as well as advantages and disadvantages of the principal means of fighting itm and the specifics of the current situation in the Russian higher education. The author believes that it is necessary to take urgent and drastic...

Both Russian and Western experience shows that higher education and research, in particular fundamental research, cannot efficiently develop without integration and close interaction with the real sector of the economy. The article analyzes certain key problems and perspectives of the...

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