CInSt researchers at the main European conference on higher education — CHER 2019
The conference took place at University of Kassel, Germany, and gathered 146 papers by researchers from over 30 countries. CInSt researchers addressed 5 different topics on higher education from bibliometrics to policy implications and economics of education.
New issue of the journal ‘Higher Education in Russia and Beyond’
The new issue unfolds the already famous principle ‘publish or perish’, which is spreading fast across university systems all over the world. The message of it is straightforward: in order to prosper at university nowadays, faculty have to publish in addition to teaching. How does it impact on academics, their self-perception and their strategies? What other consequences of following this principle are there?
The pros and cons of Russia's Project 5-100
Maria Yudkevich discusses in Times Higher Education the effects of the Russian government's focus on university rankings
All You Need for Productive Research: Three Weeks at BOFIT
From October 12 to 30, 2015, Maria Semenova worked at Bank of Finland's Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) in Helsinki.
More than gold: university rankings and the Olympics
Maria Yudkevich, Philip Altbach and Laura Rumbley examine the parallels between the grading of global institutions and sport in Times Higher Education