No. 191: Globalising or Nationalising - Russian Academia

Author(s): Ivan Kurilla, Elena Denisova-Schmidt,
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 191
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2016

This edition considers current developments in Russian Higher Education. Firstly, Ivan Kurilla outlines how Russian academia is both facing constrained resources and divided by cleavages among academics and administrators, including on the merits of “internationalization”. Secondly, Elena Denisova-Schmidt details the spread of corruption at Russian universities, noting how this is impacting on their cooperation with international partners.

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