Share of women among international or foreign students in selected fields of study (2019)

The emergence of an increasing number of foreign students in Russian universities indicates the importance of the Russian higher education system in the world community. At the same time, a new problem emerged on the agenda — how to train foreigners from abroad with high quality, taking into account their different readiness in mastering the Russian language and different subject training. The article describes the problems that foreign students face when studying informatics at a pedagogical university. The combined profiles, including “Informatics”, of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M. E. Evsevjev were the experimental research site. On the example of the “Theoretical Foundations of Informatics” discipline, the ways of teaching informatics are shown. Examples of assignments, including tasks for independent work, for teaching foreign students to informatics at the specified university are given.

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Engineers or Lawyers? Institutions and Demand for Higher Education

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-10-30-51 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 30-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

T. Natkhov ◽

L. Polishchuk

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Public Administration ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Transmission Channel ◽

Demand For Education ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

Quality Of Institutions ◽

Cross Country ◽

Rules Of The Game

Law and public administration schools in Russia vastly exceed in their popularity sciences and engineering. We relate such lopsided demand for higher education to the quality of institutions setting “rules of the game” in economy and society. Cross-country and Russian interregional data indicate the quality of institutions (rule of law, protection of property rights etc.) is negatively associated with the demand for education in law, and positively — in sciences and engineering. More gifted younger people are particularly sensitive to the quality of institutions in choosing their fields of study, and such selection is an important transmission channel between institutions and economic growth.

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Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo)

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.02.359 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Eleonora FIORE ◽

Giuliano SANSONE ◽

Chiara Lorenza REMONDINO ◽

Paolo Marco TAMBORRINI

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Single Case ◽

Real Life ◽

Learning By Doing ◽

Assessment Data ◽

Entrepreneurial Skills ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

Education Levels ◽

Positive Effect

Interest in offering Entrepreneurship Education (EE) to all kinds of university students is increasing. Therefore, universities are increasing the number of entrepreneurship courses intended for students from different fields of study and with different education levels. Through a single case study of the Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo), we suggest how EE may be taught to all kinds of university students. We have combined design methods with EE to create a practical-oriented entrepreneurship course which allows students to work in transdisciplinary teams through a learning-by-doing approach on real-life projects. Professors from different departments have been included to create a multidisciplinary environment. We have drawn on programme assessment data, including pre- and post-surveys. Overall, we have found a positive effect of the programme on the students’ entrepreneurial skills. However, when the data was broken down according to the students’ fields of study and education levels, mixed results emerged.

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