Anti-lectures, Cake and Soap Bubbles: HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary
This year’s jubilee programme of Economfest turned out to be particularly eventful. Congratulations from university leaders, meetings with teachers, games, contests, quizzes, a job exchange with KPMG and Changellenge, as well as popcorn, cotton candy and cake were prepared for students, applicants and guests of HSE University.
‘Very Little Money Can Solve Very Big Problems’
Mariam Margaryan, a graduate of the HSE University Economics and Statistics programme, HSE University lecturer, and the Fundraising Director of the Friends Foundation, says that she got into philanthropy by accident. As a student of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences, she planned to forge a career in a large consulting company. She spoke of her path to NGOs, her favourite social projects and her work at the University in an interview with the HSE University Project-Based Learning Laboratory of Economic Journalism.
Creating a ‘Generational Contract’ to Improve Young People’s Life Outcomes
Nargiz Mammadova is a Master’s student of the Economics: Research Programme and a finalist of the St. Gallen Global Essay Competition
Russia–Brazil Academic Cooperation: We Have More in Common than Not
In May 2022, Prof. Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, conducted an online master class for early-career researchers at HSE University on ‘Research in Economics of Multi-Sided Platforms’, which included feedback on research papers on the topic. The HSE News Service talked to Prof. Ribeiro and Prof. Svetlana Golovanova, who organised the event on behalf of HSE University, about this format of academic cooperation.
‘Professionals Who Have Studied Outside Their Home Countries Should Shape New Narratives’
Studies in lockdown, the fun of Russian classes, and the hardships of learning microeconomics: the HSE News Service talked to three international students of economics who are getting their master’s degrees from HSE University this year.
Five Reasons to Visit Economfest
A festival celebrating the 30th anniversary of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences will take place in the Pokrovka building on May 27
Student Internship Reports
Experiential learning, project based learning and internships are part of mandatory components at the Higher School of Economics both for masters’ and bachelor students. Students acquire professional skills and networks withit the field of their majors. Work study at HSE University, including RAs and TAs, can be counted as an internship. Today we talk about company internships with students. What is their experience, how they got there and how internships can help them in their future professional career
Congratulations to James Tremewan with his tenure!
Faculty of Economic Sciences and Department of Theoretical Economics is very pleased to congratulate Assistant Professor James Tremewan with getting tenured position at the HSE!
Welcome aboard!
Faculty of Economic Sciences is proud to welcome Dr. Oleg Baranov, new Assistant Professor of the Department of Theoretical Economics, hired by the faculty under HSE University international recruitment procedure.
New Migration Regulations: Students’ Experience
The HSE News Service has talked to students who have gone through the procedure and HSE staff members who supported the students during the process