‘Internationalising Education Is an Essential Condition for Improving Standards’
The master’s programmes in mathematics and mathematical physics at the Faculty of Mathematics were started two years ago. We put our questions to the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Sergei Lando, to get a progress report.
Our Key Task Is the Expansion of International Links
Prof. Nina Belyaeva, Head of the HSE Department of Public Policy, spoke to us about some of the details of their master’s programme taught in English in 2013.
‘HSE Was an Ideal Base to Launch Me into a Successful Start to My Career’
Jobs in logistics and consulting, tobacco industry and infrastructure projects, in Saudi Arabia and Russia… Dmitry Papulin, a graduate of the HSE Faculty of Management, told us how studying at the HSE helped him to find his way in business.
Public Policy: Winter School in English
On January 27th 2013, an international winter school organized by the HSE Department of Public Policy opened just outside Moscow. It brought together prospective students of the master’s programme on Political Analysis and Public Policy.
‘University Education Is about Teaching Students to Think Critically, Not about the Transfer of Knowledge’
Before coming to the HSE in 1999, Olga Kuzina, PhD, who is today Professor at the Department of Economic Sociology, had no experience in teaching. But she was chosen by the students as one of the best university lecturers and not for the first time in 2012.
‘Our University Gives Its Students the Ability to Fight under Any Circumstances’
Students of the HSE Faculty of Management voted Ekaterina Ivanova, Associate Professor at the Department of Entrepreneurial Law, as one of the best lecturers and teachers conducting seminar classes in 2012. In an interview with Matvey Karmakov, HSE student, she told us about a ‘toolkit’ for every lawyer and other cases from her practice.
‘Your Teaching Style Does Matter’
Danil Feodorovykh, a teacher in HSE’s Subdepartment of Microeconomic Analysis, has been elected by the students as one of the best seminar teachers of 2012 at HSE. He spoke to Andrei Scherbakov of the HSE news portal about teaching style and microeconomics.
‘I Teach a Very Interesting Subject’
Sergey Pekarsky, Professor at the Faculty of Economics Subdepartment of Macroeconomic Analysis, first came to the HSE to get a second higher education, since he did not know where to apply his knowledge of applied mathematics. Fifteen years later, he is about to head the HSE’s Department of Theoretical Economics, and students have voted him one of the best teachers at the HSE.
‘I Love it When Students Get Me Flummoxed’
Mikhail Ulyanov, professor of the Software Management Department, has been chosen for the second time by students at the School of Software Engineering as an HSE Best Lecturer 2012. Tatyana Bogoslavskaya interviewed him for the HSE news portal.
‘Philosophy Is a Form of Rational Activity’
Viktor Gorbatov, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy Department of Ontology, Logics and Theory of Knowledge, is, according to the students of the Faculties of Economics and Psychology, one of the best teachers who conducts seminars. In an interview he gave to the HSE News Service he spoke about the role of philosophy in modern life.