Not a single Russian university was included in the top hundred of the best universities in the global ranking in 2015, which is made by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds. The best result among Russian universities was shown by the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The university has risen in the ranking by six positions compared to ...
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk takes a four-month time-out. In the spring, he was named one of the 16 lucky winners from around the world to win the 2015 Yale World Fellows program at Yale University. This is one of the most prestigious universities in the world, which is located in New Haven (Connecticut). World Scholarship Program ...
The Israeli police and the FBI have detained four Israelis suspected of hacking the Internet sites of financial institutions and banks, as well as securities fraud. On Wednesday, July 22, the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court will consider the issue of extending their detention. Detentions of steel ...
American Kendrick White, mentioned in a report by the Rossiya-1 TV channel about alleged US interference in Russian affairs, was removed from the post of vice-rector for innovation at Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky (NNSU), according to the university website. Associate Professor Kendrick White has been suspended...
McDonald's intends to open a corporate university in Moscow, where it will train managers to work in its fast food restaurants. As the head of McDonald's in Russia, Khamzat Khasbulatov, said on the Kommersant FM radio station, the company already has its own...
Students of the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU) were greeted by shouts of “Shame!” lecture by one of the leaders of the Anti-Maidan movement Nikolai Starikov. Some students left their seats in the audience and left the hall. Later, RSUH professor Konstantin Yerusalimsky openly spoke out against Starikov, trying to find out...
American teenager Harold Eke, whose family moved to the US from Nigeria about ten years ago, entered all Ivy League universities at once. The 18-year-old boy was admitted to all 13 universities, where he applied. Ecky, eight, moved to New York ...
The number of physics students in British universities over the past four years has grown by almost one and a half times. According to scientists, the popularity of physics is associated with films (like "Interstellar" or "Gravity"), as well as wide media coverage of projects such as the Large Hadron Collider and the epic ...
In the US, two universities plan to reward attentive students. It is also an attempt to stop ignoring teachers. The University of Pennsylvania and California State University were the first to adopt an app called Pocket Points, which controls how long a student looks at their smartphone while in lectures. ...