Institute of Education

Research & Expertise to Make a Difference in Education & Beyond

The HSE Institute of Education is a leading interdisciplinary research centre specialising in the study of education systems, policies and practices. With a faculty of over 250 researchers and educators, including internationally renowned scholars, the Institute is a hub for high-impact research, teaching and policy engagement in education.

As part of its Strategy 2030, the Institute is developing into a world-class research school, focusing on understanding educational development and assessing the impact of educational policies. These priorities are reflected in the Institute’s key areas: 

— Artificial Intelligence in Education
— Well-being in Education
— Education and the Labour Market
— Instructional Design
— Comparative Analysis of Education Policy
— Management in Education

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On 30 April, as part of its regular internal seminar series, the HSE Institute of Education featured a lecture by Professor Santosh Mehrotra on the transformation of qualifications and skills systems in India. The seminar brought colleagues together to discuss how changing approaches to qualifications and educational pathways might affect learner mobility and labour market opportunities.
May 27
On 5 May, the HSE Institute of Education hosted a delegation from the Faculty of Education at Kasetsart University in Thailand. This marked the first meeting between the two institutions and opened a new avenue for international academic cooperation. The visit provided an opportunity to introduce research priorities, exchange perspectives on current educational challenges, and explore potential areas of future collaboration.
May 20
From 15–17 April, Danila Pavliuk, a Research Assistant at the Centre of Higher Education of Sociology, presented his study at the Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) international conference in Adelaide, Australia. This is one of the longest-running and most influential international events dedicated to doctoral education and the development of early-career researchers.
May 15

Publications

  • Digital Economy: 2026 : Pocket Data Book

    This pocket data book contains the main indicators reflecting the relevance of digital technologies for enterprises and individuals, the activity of ICT sector enterprises, the infrastructure and personnel of the digital economy.

    The data book includes information of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, European Statistical Office (Eurostat), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), UNESCO, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and results of methodological and analytical studies of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.

    In some cases, the presented data specify those published earlier.

    M.: HSE ISSEK, 2026.

  • Article

    Mikhaylova O.

    Selling Preparation, Selling Self: Platformization, Professional Identity, and Regulatory Adaptation in Russian Artistic Tutoring on Telegram

    The platformization of education is reshaping professional identities and pedagogical practice in high-stakes, performance-based university entrance preparation. This article explores how private tutors serving Russia's performing arts sector strategically construct hybrid roles as educators, entrepreneurs, and influencers, using Telegram as their primary infrastructure amid shifting regulatory and technological environments. Using qualitative reflexive thematic analysis of two million posts across fourteen public Telegram channels (with audience sizes ranging from under 200 to nearly 23,000), the study reveals how tutors marshal platform affordances—including multimedia broadcasting, strategic channel-group integration, and personalized service offerings—to innovate pedagogically, perform credibility, and weather regulatory pressures. The analysis situates Telegram as an active medium shaping not only communication but also social organization, market differentiation, and boundary work between formal and informal education. The findings show tutors leveraging digital tools to institutionalize quasi-formal practices, personalize emotional and cognitive support, and survive in a volatile, policy-constrained ecosystem. By foregrounding affordance-driven analysis and the entrepreneurial turn in shadow education, this article contributes to new media studies, platform research, and educational theory, ultimately revealing how digital infrastructures are central to contemporary transformations in identity, pedagogy, and power in global education.

    Convergence-The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 2026.

  • Book chapter

    Dvoretskaya I., Alexey Semenov, Uvarov A.

    Exploring Patterns of Information Literacy Development in Schools: Application of Multilevel Latent Class Analysis to School Students Survey Data

    While the literature on digital transformation in education has searched for evidence based practices to improve ICT uptake in school settings, we know little about how schools differ in their approaches. This study aims to overcome the absence of standardized tools that could help to assess the stages and progress of ICT integration in educational settings. By using the example of information literacy development tasks assignment in classroom, we applied a latent class analysis to the survey data obtained from the monitoring the digital transformation of schools in the 2020–21 academic year. Based on the survey data from monitoring the digital transformation of schools, four types of students’ patterns were identified, depending on the information skills tasks assigned to them by their teachers at school. Based on the distribution of students’ patterns of working with information, three typical patterns of schools were identified with the use of multilevel latent class analysis. This study provides evidence for how the development of information literacy differs across schools contexts. As with advent of digital technologies education becomes data intensive domain, new approaches to the big data analysis are encouraged and it can help educators and education policy makers to improve decision-making.

    In bk.: 26th International Conference, DAMDID/RCDL 2024, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, October 23–25, 2024, Revised Selected Papers. Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains. (CCIS, volume 2641). Springer, 2026. P. 253-266.

  • Working paper

    Antipkina I., Ivanov A., Guzhelya D.

    Explicit continuum scale format reduces the ceiling effect in self-report questionnaires comparing to Likert response format

    This study presents a methodology for developing a new questionnaire format called explicit continuum scenario scales, in the example of a client focus questionnaire. Elements of the Rasch Guttman scenario scale methodology were used in its development. In three consequent studies, different aspects of the scale functioning were investigated. In Study 1, on the sample of 100 respondents, it was shown that the explicit continuum scale produces reliable results and helps avoid the ceiling effect shown in the Likert response format version of the client focus questionnaire. In Study 2, the scale was administered in a competition environment, in a sample of 735 people. Despite the positive shift of scores, the instrument shows excellent psychometric characteristics and still resists the ceiling effect. In Study 3, new items were included, and the scale was presented in an interactive format. In the sample of 65,000 university students, it demonstrated the robustness of its psychometrics characteristics including dimensionality. The results of the three studies show that the explicit continuum format has the advantage of the stable dimensionality similar to the expanded format and is promising for measurement in social sciences.

    Basic research program. WP BRP. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2024

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