Henry Rosovsky - Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (1973-1984), Acting President of Harvard University (1984-1887).At the top of the higher education pyramid in the United States we find the public and private research universities...

Vladimir Blinov, D.Sc. in Pedagogy, Professor in the Chair of Pedagogics, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russian Federation, award winner in Pinsky Awards Education Research Competition (2010). Email: Endless111@yandex.ru Address: Bld. 1, 1 Malaya Pirogovskaya St., Moscow, 119991,...

Erik de Corte - Professor Emeritus, Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology (CIPT), University of Leuven, Belgium. Address: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Oude Markt, 13, Bus 5005 3000 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail: Erik.DeCorte@ppw.kuleuven.beThe emergence of national evaluation schemes...

Simon Marginson - Professor of International Higher Education, Institute of Education, University of London. Address: 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom. E-mail: s.marginson@ioe.ac.ukSince the end of the Soviet period much has changed, though in higher education and science, the...

Ivan Gruzdev, M.A. in Sociology, analyst at the Internal Monitoring Center, National Research University -Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: van@gorod.org.ru Yelena Gorbunova, M.A in Sociology, analyst at the Internal Monitoring Center, National Research University...

Sergey Roshchin - Candidate of Science, Associate Professor, Prorector, Head of the Subdepartment of Labour and Population Economics, Director of the Laboratory for Labor Market Studies, National Research University - Higher School of Economics. E-mail: sroshchin@hse.ruViktor Rudakov - Analyst,...

Susan Biancani - Research Fellow, School of Education, Stanford University E-mail: biancani@standford.eduDaniel A. McFarland - Research Fellow, School of Education, Stanford University E-mail: mcfarland@stanford.eduAddress: School of Education, Stanford University, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA...

Alisa Melikyan - M. Sc., Senior Teacher, Chair of Software Systems Architecture, National Research University - Higher School of Economics. Address: 20 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation. E-mail: amelikyan@hse.ruWe present results of a study of 27 existing international...

Anthony T. Grafton, Professor at Princeton University, NJ, United States. Email: grafton@princeton.edu Address: Princeton, NJ 08544, United States.Analyzing modern research papers devoted to assessment of the situation in higher education, Grafton discusses efficiency of learning in American...

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