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Up to 100 of the 500 Russian students in China have ignored education minister Vladimir Filippov's advice to come home to escape the Sars virus.
Up to 100 of the 500 Russian students in China have ignored education minister Vladimir Filippov's advice to come home to escape the Sars virus.
Russia's federal education ministry has reinstated Yuriy Savelev as rector of the Baltic State Technical University. He was suspended in March on the orders of federal education minister Vladimir...
Yurii Savelev, rector of the Baltic State Technological University, has been suspended on suspicion of allowing foreign students, including Iranians, to study missile-related technology. The Russian...
Russia’s top universities are being supported to make internationalisation a priority, and the fruits of their efforts are paying off, says Vladimir Filippov
Russia's deputy education minister has resigned in a policy clash with his new boss, whom he criticised for being too pro-Communist. Alexander Asmolov, a psychology professor, left within days of the...
Russia faces student shortfall Russian education minister Vladimir Filippov has warned that the number of young people entering higher education will fall over the next eight years because...
Some 5 per cent of new Russian graduates - 100,000 over the past two years - are seeking jobs abroad, says Moscow State University rector Viktor Sadovnichiy. He warned a Unesco-sponsored...
Russian education minister Vladimir Filippov is planning to crack down on corruption in universities as he pushes ahead with higher education reforms. Mr Filippov, former rector of the People's...
Doubling the government stipend that Russian students receive is one proposal under discussion in Moscow, where the modernisation of university funding is high on the political agenda. Boosting...
Washington DC In his first budget, United States President George W. Bush is to include aid for higher education and science, including a doubling of the allocation for the National Institutes of...
The Russian education ministry has reopened three universities in the Chechen capital Grozny even though fighting between federal forces and rebels continues. Students were officially welcomed back...
The rector of one of Russia's top universities has resigned after falling victim to the political fall-out following the arrest of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Leonid Nevzlin, who owns 8 per cent...
The rector of one of Russia's top universities has resigned after falling victim to the political fall-out following the arrest of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Leonid Nevzlin, who owns 8 per cent...
Moscow's universities, which once attracted students from across the Soviet Union, are struggling to recruit from outside the city's immediate vicinity. Under the Soviet regime, about 25 per cent of...
Russia is to introduce a single, nationwide combined school leaving and university entrance examination next year, education minister Vladimir Filippov has confirmed. In a television interview, he...