Four HSE Research Centers Included in the Boston College Worldwide Inventory of Higher Education Research Centers
The Boston College Center for International Higher Education has published its Worldwide Inventory of Research Centers, Academic Programmes and Journals in Higher Education. Four Russian research centers are included, all of them are part of HSE.
Three sections under HSE’s Institute of Education have made it to the list for the first time: the Center for University Management (currently known as the Center for Higher Education International Competitiveness), the Higher Education Research group, and the University Development laboratory. Russia is also represented by the HSE’s Center for Institutional Studies.
‘We are proud that four HSE centers simultaneously made it into this worldwide inventory, and that three of them are under the Institute of Education. This indicates that HSE’s role in the global higher education research process has been recognized,’ said Isak Froumin, Academic Supervisor at the Institute of Education.
The inventory also included an HSE academic journal ‘Issues in Education’ and an MA programme ‘Management in Higher Education.’ This is the only Russian educational course that is included, and is offered by the HSE’s Institute of Education.
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