Education

  • Education
    Nov 23, 2019
    Synergies in education & trainings

    Russian students are increasingly choosing to pursue university degrees abroad.  According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report, approximately 5,412 Russian students studied in the United States in 2017.  

     

    Over a five-year period from 2012 to 2017, there has been an 18-percent increase in the number of Russian students studying in U.S. schools.

     

    Education in Russia is predominantly state-run and is regulated by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Education (which, until May 2018, were one Ministry). Regional authorities regulate education in their jurisdictions within the prevailing framework of federal laws. Russia’s expenditure on education has grown from 2.7 percent of the GDP in 2005 to 3.8 percent in 2015, but remains below the OECD average of 5.2 percent.

     

  • Education
    Aug 18, 2018
    Johns Hopkins University closes Russian programs

    Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore stopped offering Russian as a major to its students. Students will still be able to choose Russian as their minor for now. The news as to the cancellation were announced in early October 2017. Johns Hopkins’ Russian programs in literature and culture were small to begin with and they were conducted by professors from the nearby Goucher College. The head of Russian programs at the university Professor Olya Samilenko said that she was struck by the cancellation of the Russian programs, especially when the influence of Russia grows in the world and even inside the U.S. “This mad decision is based not on the quality of the program, but on something else that we can’t understand,” she reportedly said.

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