The X Teachers’ Winter School was held from 31 January to 4 February. The School’s theme was “Partnerships in digital education 2022-2030”. Over 7,300 attendees from Russia and foreign countries participated in the School.
A panel discussion “Openness or Inbreeding: How to Attract the Best From the Outside Without Losing One’s Identity” was held as part of the School, where we, together with the experts from Russia’s leading universities, discussed the requirements for foreign students studying in Russian universities, their adaptation, and ways we can help them in the context of the pandemic as well as the university brand.
Irina Korotkina, Doctor of Education, Head of the Interfaculty Department of English Language of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Director of the Centre for Academic Writing and Communications of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of Russia, was a speaker at the discussion.
The expert emphasised that the university’s identity should primarily be determined based on its treatment of people, and the graduates of a specific university will always associate themselves with its specific community: “When we talk about identity, we primarily talk about people, because identification and self-identification are, by definition, associated with people. That is why when we are talking about the university identity, we are talking about the university community”.
The speaker used the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences as an example: “Shaninka is a social and economic university, which discovered its own identity in its early years. It’s a unique model created by Teodor Shanin as a small elite cosy graduate non-state independent Russian British university that has had specific interesting people and individual approach to each student from the very beginning, and that is something a large university cannot afford”.
Speech recording
A panel discussion “Openness or Inbreeding: How to Attract the Best From the Outside Without Losing One’s Identity” was held as part of the School, where we, together with the experts from Russia’s leading universities, discussed the requirements for foreign students studying in Russian universities, their adaptation, and ways we can help them in the context of the pandemic as well as the university brand.
Irina Korotkina, Doctor of Education, Head of the Interfaculty Department of English Language of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Director of the Centre for Academic Writing and Communications of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of Russia, was a speaker at the discussion.
The expert emphasised that the university’s identity should primarily be determined based on its treatment of people, and the graduates of a specific university will always associate themselves with its specific community: “When we talk about identity, we primarily talk about people, because identification and self-identification are, by definition, associated with people. That is why when we are talking about the university identity, we are talking about the university community”.
The speaker used the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences as an example: “Shaninka is a social and economic university, which discovered its own identity in its early years. It’s a unique model created by Teodor Shanin as a small elite cosy graduate non-state independent Russian British university that has had specific interesting people and individual approach to each student from the very beginning, and that is something a large university cannot afford”.
Speech recording