Corporate expenditures on educating personnel have returned to pre-crisis levels, but that doesn't mean that companies are now ready to buy everything at once. Businesses continue to search out the most effective ways to raise the qualification...

New education minister and former Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys rector Dmitry Livanov said the country needs to cut the number of university students that receive money from the state budget in half. New education minister and former Moscow Institute...

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... government order published Friday by Rossiiskaya Gazeta. The selected universities, which represent 25 countries, have been featured on such lists as the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The government-approved list includes world-renowned top-tier schools as well as obscure midlevel ones. Britain's Cambridge, Oxford and York universities and famous American institutions including Yale University...

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...." Golodets' experience in social issues includes 13 years as a researcher with the National Labor Research Institute and the National Academy of Sciences' Institute for Employment Studies. As deputy mayor beginning in December 2010, she oversaw education and health care in the city. "I don't see any problems with her appointment. She's very energetic, very smart, full of initiative," said a high-ranking official at a Moscow university, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "But...

... at May 09, 2012</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Date of Birth:</b></td><td>10/22/1986</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Highest Level of Education:</b></td><td>Bachelors Degree</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Citizenship:</b></td><td>USA</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Years...

... filling Igor Sechin’s shoes. Olga Golodets, one of the few newcomers, will serve as deputy prime minister for social issues, Putin said at a Kremlin naming ceremony. Most recently, she was a deputy to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, covering health care and education since December 2010. For almost a decade until 2008, she worked as Norilsk Nickel deputy director for personnel. Vladislav Surkov, Dmitry Kozak, Dmitry Rogozin and Alexander Khloponin preserved their positions as deputy prime ministers. Surkov...

... Training. "The program's goal is to create a critical mass of people who will develop the bank using the techniques they learn," Zhuravlyova said. After the first two classes graduate, "a thousand directors will have an excellent, uniform education, which will lead to systematic management and congruity of actions of all units in the realization of the bank's development strategy," she said. "Even if only one in five participants of the program begins to actively apply the knowledge...

... not exist because photography was just about ideology. It was a kind of illustration of propaganda text. At the same time it did exist as art, but it was not covered by official art historians. And people who really thought about photography were self-educated," Chmyreva said. Indeed, many of the photographers featured were self-taught and worked as engineers or teachers by day, busily developing their photos in their bathrooms by night. Some had more exposure to the West through their occupations...

... at April 27, 2012</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Date of Birth:</b></td><td>03/03/1962</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Highest Level of Education:</b></td><td>Masters Degree</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Citizenship:</b></td><td>Germany</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Years...

... at April 29, 2012</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Date of Birth:</b></td><td>06/03/1981</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Highest Level of Education:</b></td><td>Masters Degree</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Citizenship:</b></td><td>USA</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Years...

... at May 28, 2012</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Date of Birth:</b></td><td>10/25/1976</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Highest Level of Education:</b></td><td>Ph.D, JD, MD, DDS, DO</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Citizenship:</b></td><td>India</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Years...

... challenges facing the country. Proposals in the wide-ranging document include promoting "environmentally oriented economic growth," slashing pollution from industry to levels "of other developed countries" and making environmental education a key part of schools' curriculum. Businesses may face compulsory environmental impact assessments for new developments, phased introduction of a system of an environmental audit system and a ban on unsorted garbage. The document offers no...

... addition to the demand for new free and fair elections, some demonstrators are now calling for free medicine and health care, granting more workers the right to strike without retribution, a price ceiling on utilities fees and an end to sharp cutbacks in education, including the closing of many schools across the county. Not surprisingly, the demonstrators' banners are changing their focus accordingly, and even those who do not identify themselves as leftists are quick to agree that health care and education...

... reserve" program to gather the country's most qualified 1,000 people for top jobs, only 10 percent to 15 percent were women, Baskakova said. State statistics from 2005 — the latest data available — showed that women in Russia are generally more educated than men, but women who hold government jobs are, for unclear reasons, less educated than men, Baskakova said. Women mostly hold jobs in the lower levels of government, while "the higher the rank, the fewer the women," she said. Some...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said his stint in the job sometimes felt like getting an education, as he bid farewell to his Cabinet on Wednesday at its final session. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said his stint in the job sometimes felt like getting an education, as he bid farewell to his Cabinet on Wednesday at its final...

... Once a treasured luxury for the elite, Afghan film connoisseurs are deeply distressed by the dilapidated state of their cinemas, which reflect an industry on the brink of collapse from conflict and financial neglect. "Before our audiences were educated. Now they are illiterates who understand nothing of cinema and come only to smoke [marijuana]," said Sayed Khalid Sadat, manager of Pameer cinema, which sits on a corner in the bustling center of Kabul. Kabul's cinemas show Pakistani films...

... at May 03, 2012</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Date of Birth:</b></td><td>07/04/1966</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Highest Level of Education:</b></td><td>Bachelors Degree</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Citizenship:</b></td><td>Russia, Russia</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><b>Years...

... of 16 and 24. These groups have suffered serious social problems. The same is true for Russia. Yet, while young people often do not possess the experience or skills that companies need, they are quick learners. By taking a more active role in various educational institutions as well as vocational training programs, and creating their own development initiatives, organizations can make better use of this age group. Older, more experienced members of society also offer opportunities for companies to...