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MOSCOW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS – A STAKE ON "ELITE EDUCATION".
20 June 2004
Internet-site of the RF Ministry of Education
Moscow School of Economics was inaugurated under the roof of Lomonosov MSU. Academy Member A.D. Nekipelov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who was appointed Director of the School shared this information with the press.
MSE is an independent department of MSU which will function as its faculty, he said.
Moscow School of Economics was founded on the initiative of MSU Rector, Victor Sadovnichii made public in the Russian Academy of Sciences this February. V. Sadovnichii could not attend the pressconference because of an urgent business trip. According to A. Nekipelov, when founding the School the stake was made on ‘elite education’. “We plan to have a faculty of ’stars’ which enables us to train tailor-made specialists”, he said.
The faculty will feature prominent foreign scholars: Professors James K. Galbraith and Michael Intriligator (USA), Jaque Sapir (France), Grzegorz Kolodko (Poland). According to A. Nekipelov agreement has been reached with some foreign researchers about one-week courses. The main part of the faculty will be represented by RAS researchers and economic practitioners.
This year only one group of 25 students holding a Bachelor degree (not lower) will be matriculated. They must have good knowledge of mathematics and a good command of English as foreign professors will lecture in English. Tuition will take 2 years and the fee will be $4,800 annually.
Students of the School will thoroughly study subjects as Banking and Credit, Economic Security, Risk Management and Insurance, Political Science and Civil Law, History and Sociology. The program will concentrate on problems of Russian economy and modern international economic problems. When asked the difference in the system of education between MSE MSU and other high schools (in particular, Higher School of Economics, Russian School of Economics and MSU High School of Business) A. Nekipelov answered: “We do not claim to found a big educational institution like Higher School of Economics, for instance. We make a stake on personal contact between students and high-level economic practitioners. Not a single university can provide such a close contact as a small group can”. MSE will differ from the Economic Faculty of MSU by its more applied character.
Victor Ivanter, Director of RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting and one of MSE professors, added that students will have to spend at least one day a week to research in academic institutes. It is important because MSE will be primarily train professionals for state institutions and research, not for business, V. Ivanter stressed.
MOSCOW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INAUGURATED UNDER THE ROOF OF LOMONOSOV MSU.
20 June 2004
PRIME-TASS
Moscow School of Economics inaugurated under the roof of Lomonosov MSU. Academy Member A.D. Nekipelov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who was appointed Director of the School, shared this information with the press. MSE is an independent department of MSU which will function as one of its faculties, he said.
Moscow School of Economics was founded on the initiative of MSU Rector, Victor Sadovnichii made public in the Russian Academy of Sciences this February. V. Sadovnichii could not attend the pressconference because of an urgent business trip. According to A. Nekipelov, when creating the School the stake was made on ‘elite education’. “We plan to have a faculty of ‘stars’ which enables us to train tailor-made specialists”, he said.
The faculty will feature prominent foreign scientists: Professors James K. Galbraith and Michael Intriligator (USA), Jaque Sapir (France), Grzegorz Kolodko (Poland). According to A. Nekipelov agreement has been reached with some foreign scholars to give one-week courses. The main part of the faculty will be represented by RAS researchers and economic practitioners.
This year only one group of 25 students holding a Bachelor degree (not lower) will be matriculated. They must have good knowledge of mathematics and a good command of English as foreign professors will lecture in English. Tuition will take 2 years and the fee will be $4,800 annually.
MSE students will study Banking and Credit, Economic Security, Risk Management and Insurance, Political Science and Civil Law, History and Sociology. The education program will concentrate on problems of Russian economy and modern international economic problems. When asked about the difference in the system of education between MSE MSU and other schools (in particular, Higher School of Economics, Russian School of Economics and MSU School of Business) A. Nekipelov answered: “We do not claim to found a big educational institution like Higher School of Economics, for instance. We make a stake on the personal contacts between students and high-level economic practitioners. Not a single university can provide such close contact as a small group can”. MSE will differ from the Economic Faculty of MSU by its more applied character.
Victor Ivanter, Director of RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting and a MSE professor, added that students will have to spend at least one day a week to research in academic institutes. It is important because MSE will primarily train professionals for state institutions and research, not for business, V. Ivanter stressed.
"RUSSIAN HARVARD" TO BEGIN WORK IN MOSCOW
18 June 2004
ITAR-TASS
A new educational Institution, Moscow School of Economics will begin functioning in the new academic year under the roof of Lomonosov MSU. Academy Member A.D. Nekipelov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and School Director, shared this information with the press today.
“The level of education at the School will be compatible with the worldfamous Harvard, he assured the press Our task is to prepare top-level specialists able to solve most difficult problems of Russian economy".
In order to provide this ‘elite-quality’ education the School invited leading Russian researchers and scholars as well as foreign experts such as Jaque Sapir, Grzegorz Kolodko and James Galbraith.
Unlike all other Russian economic universities, in Moscow School of Economics “concrete aspects of contemporary Russian economy development and not general economic theory will be the backbone of the study plan, Nekipelov stressed. The predominant form of education will be not lectures but seminars in the course of which students will have the chance to communicate with their professors, exchange opinions and information”.
The first group matriculated to the ‘Russian Harvard’ will number 25 students.
MOSCOW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS FOUNDED UNDER THE ROOF OF LOMONOSOV MSU.
18 June 2004
RIA Novosti
This May the Academic Council of Lomonosov Moscow State University passed a decision to set up a new educational institution, MSU Moscow School of Economics (MSE). On 21 July MSE is starting to accept applications for 2004-2005. Academy Member A.D. Nekipelov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who was appointed Director of the School, shared this information with the press on Friday.
“We have made a stake on elite education – elite in terms of its quality and not of the students’ background", he explained. That is why in the first year only 25 students will be matriculated. In future, maybe in 5 or 6 years this figure may grow to 400 students, Nekipelov says.
All applicants must already have a higher education, be good at mathematics and English, the latter’s command enough to understand lectures of foreign professors since MSE faculty will feature not only leading Russian but also prominent foreign scholars.
“We are not founding a Russian Harvard, but an economic Institution similar to the Institute of Physics and Technology”, Victor Ivanter, Director of RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting and a professor of MSE, stressed.
The newly appointed Director of the School thinks that “study will be hard but interesting”.
THREE ACADEMY MEMBERS AND TWO NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS PER STUDENT
18 June 2004
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
A new faculty opened at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Natalja Savizkaya
This May the Academic Council of Lomonosov Moscow State University passed a decision to open Moscow School of Economics as a faculty of MSU. The initiative to set up this new institution belongs to the Academy Member and MSU President Victor Sadovnichii. Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy Member Alexander Nekipelov who was offered to head the new School accepted the proposal. This season the new faculty will open its doors to applicants. We have interviewed the Director of Moscow School of Economics to learn what kind of students he is expecting to have.
Vice-president of the RAS, Academy Member Nekipelov is convinced: Russia will have its own Harvard.
- Alexander Dmitrievich, I’m still confused, why found a new economic school if MSU already has the Economic Department and High School of Business?
– We wanted to set up an educational institution where we could succeed in combining the opportunities of academic science (in the economic field) and of Moscow University. To set up a truly elite educational institution. Elite not in the sense that it will educate the offspring of our elite, but in the sense that we shall ytain specialists with a profound economic education able to effectively work in the governmental bodies at the federal and regional levels, in research and education.
– Will you matriculate secondary graduates?
- The first two years we shalll matriculate only Masters. Then we shall start enlisting secondary school graduates. To test the idea we shall only matriculate 25 students in the first year. In future the number of students will grow considerably, especially after the new School building is completed. But even then we shall have a maximum of 400 students. Prominent Russian scholars, luminaries of economics have already given their consent to lecture at the new faculty. The main backbone will be represented by members of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Victor Polterovich (modern economic-mathematical methods), Alexander Granberg (spatial economics), Victor Ivanter (problems of modern Russian economy), Vladimir Mayevsky (evolutionary economy), Natalya Rimashevskaya (demographic and social problems), Georgi Kleiner (economy of enterprises and firms). Of course, we will also invite the best MSU professors as well as professors from other universities. Prominent economists, authors of well-known economic textbooks will come to read one-week courses from abroad. The first students will be very lucky. Figuratively speaking there will be three Academy Members and two Nobel Prize winners per student in the first year.
– All those ‘stars’ in the faculty, does that mean that selection of students will be very strict?
– We start accepting applications from 21 July like other MSU faculties. Exams will start in the first part of July. Entrance exams will be limited to a written exam in economic theory and an interview. We shall paying attention to the knowledge of mathematics and command of English.
– How did the deans of the Economic Faculty and the High School of Business react on their new competitor?
– The first question was the same you asked: What for? Then everyone understood that we are in different weight categories and occupy different niches. There are 300 courses taught at the Economic Faculty of MSU, our specialization is much narrower:Economic Theory and Problems of Contemporary Russia. Maybe we shall introduce another couple of courses in the future. But in any case they will concentrate on Russian economy.
– Can we perceive the creation of this new faculty as a state order?
– There was no direct order made by the state. Of course, we would like most of our students to go and work in our research after graduation. But for well-known financial reasons this is hardly to be expected in the nearest future. What perspectives do we see for our graduates? The lack of qualified specialists in federal and regional government bodies and in research is evident even today. According to our estimates this demand in the near future will only keep growing. Today we have noticed a strange tendency that, nevertheless, makes us somehow optimistic. Very young people are appointed now to the top positions at the Ministry of Economic Development. On the one hand, this seems not be right (in terms of normal economic conditions), you do understand that a person must go through certain stages in his career to learn to manage people competently. On the other hand, this testifies to the immense opportunities for a young specialist in our country.
– Will there be a tuition fee?
– Yes, tuition will not be free, the fee is average for an MSU faculty. But we do not want this circumstance to block the way to good education for applicants from low-income families. That is why matriculated students will have a chance to get a low-cost loan at 13% annual interest rate repayable after graduation. This is an acceptable burden. We are interested in talented youths whichever strata of society they might belong to.
A SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS TO OPEN AT MSU.
18 June 2004
Moscow Government Internet site
This May the Academic Council of Lomonosov Moscow State University passed a decision to set up a new educational institution, MSU Moscow School of Economics (MSE).
On 21 July MSE is starting to accept applications for 2004-2005 academic year. Academy Member A.D. Nekipelov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who was appointed Director of the School, shared this information with the press on Friday.
We have made a stake on elite education – elite in terms of its quality and not in terms of the students’ background, he explained. That is why in the first year only 25 students will be matriculated. In future, maybe in 5 or6 years this figure may grow to 400 students, Nekipelov says.
All applicants must already have a higher education as well as good knowledge of mathematics and English, the latter to understand lectures of foreign professors. As MSE faculty will feature not only leading Russian but also prominent foreign scholars, RIA Novosti reports.
“We are not creating a Russian Harvard, but an economic institution similar to the Institute of Physics and Technology”, Victor Ivanter, Director of RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting, a professor of MSE, stressed.
The newly appointed Director of the School thinks that “study will be hard but interesting”.
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