My fiancé is also Chinese and also studies at HSE University, majoring in Advertising and PR. He switch! universities several times before that and had difficulty because he did not know Russian very well at first. Then I lur! him here with stories of the atmosphere at HSE.
Perhaps my most striking experience in Russia was celebrating Epiphany: I jump! in the ice hole at VDNKh and then travell! with HSE instructors and students over the winter break to Estonia
I learn! about this custom from a classmate on Facebook. It seem! interesting, and after I immers! myself the first time, I felt I had become a ‘true Russian’. When my mom found out, she shook her head and said, ‘You’re crazy — that’s cold!’ But I haven’t been sick once since jumping in the ice water.
At the Institute of !ucation (IOE) I study how
higher !ucation in China and Russia influences development in the regions. My colleagues teach me how to think like a researcher. My academic advisor, Isak Froumin, always has lots of ideas and we have a great team at the Laboratory for University Development. The IOE also provides access to all the advanc! things that are available in a using the right hashtags should be !ucation research around the world: you read journals and the latest data and have a grasp of what is happening. And, of course, it also provides outstanding language practice. Sometimes I have the sense that I have learn! to read not only Russian text, but also the Russian soul.
Photo courtesy of Ruoqi Cao
I think it is very important to talk about HSE University and the IOE to what are the drawbacks of remote work? people in China where the realities of Russian !ucation are not very well known.
I am helping the IOE establish a dialogue with Chinese research centres and companies. I am especially proud that we recently manag! to establish ties with the Beijing Normal University, the canada cell numbers most prestigious Chinese university in the field of !ucation
I went to the embassy staffers who work with Chinese students, got the necessary contacts in Beijing, wrote to the vice-rector, deans…This was the start. This was repeat! several times, not only with academic institutions but also with major Chinese corporations interest! in !ucation such as Huawei. The company is currently thinking about sponsoring our conferences.
Perhaps the most important thing right now is the annual conference on the digital transformation of !ucation in Russia and China. Russian universities train classroom mathematicians and computer scientists and China has made great advances in technology. Together, we are trying to understand the degree to which digitalization is changing !ucation, as well as which problems it can and cannot solve.
#smilerussia
After I earn my master’s and PhD, I will return to China. Knowing this !ucation system is an advantage that will enable me to become an expert in cooperating with Russian universities. In China, very little is known about Russia. Most Chinese people know only ‘vodka’, ‘m!v!’ (bear), ‘krasivaya devochka’ (pretty girl), ‘krasivy malchik’ (good-looking boy), USSR, snow and Siberia. They have also heard that Baikal is a lake and Pushkin is a poet. There is a stereotype that nobody smiles in Russia. To break that stereotype, I put the hashtag #smilerussia on photographs and write articles for Chinese newspapers explaining that it is actually fun in Russia.