Personal Success is Determined by Favourite Work
For people today, a job is not only a source of revenue, but also an essential attribute of a full life. Professional work must be interesting, in demand by society, well paid, and must leave a certain level of freedom, young Russians believe. This is what researchers from the HSE Centre for Youth Studies (CYS) in St. Petersburg found out as part of their project ‘Youth solidarities and generations of the 21st century: the values of labour and consumption’.
HSE Professor Awarded Shannon Prize
Professor Alexander Holevo at the Department of Applied Mathematics MIEM HSE has been awarded the international Shannon Prize for achievements in quantum information theory.
LCSR Summer School on ‘Introduction to Factorial Design and Data Visualisation with R’
As the 5th LCSR Summer School on ‘Introduction to Factorial Design and Data Visualisation with R’ came to a close on August 3, participants commented on their experience and shared their impressions.
1.6
is the number of times by which the share of people with higher education among Russians over 55 years of age has increased since 2000.
Vasily Klucharev: ‘Our Brain Identifies Losing Money and Standing out from the Crowd as Catastrophes’
There are numerous ways of impacting people’s decisions, you can convince, intimidate, hypnotise, or use particular tools on certain parts of the brain. Why do scientists do this and what do these experiments show? Vasily Klucharev, Head of HSE’s School of Psychology answers questions posed by Olga Orlova, who hosts the Hamburg Score programme on Russia’s Public Television Channel.
31%
of professional and vocational schools in Russia are currently not enrolling students for professional education programmes due to a lack of demand.
72%
of managers at large and medium-sized Russian industrial companies report that the financial and economic situation of their enterprises was ‘satisfactory’.
Professional Development Mostly Limited to Intellectuals
In Russia, access to professional development is determined by one's occupation, as well as job position, company size, and characteristics of the local labour market. Skilled personnel in non-physical jobs and public sector employees are more likely to pursue professional development, while low-skilled employees in private firms are effectively excluded from any such opportunity, according to Vasiliy Anikin, Assistant Professor of the HSE Department of Applied Economics.
16.2%
of students who attend schools in the inner Moscow suburbs are children whose native language is not Russian.