Title:
Russia’s limits on critical thinking are hitting its academic performance
Author:
Katarzyna Kaczmarska & Dmitry Dubrovsky
Published:
Times Higher Education, 13 September 2020
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/russias-limits-critical-thinking-are-hitting-its-academic-performance
From the article:
Recent months have seen heated debates in Russia about the limits of faculty and students’ rights to undertake public speaking and engage in political activism.
Lecturers at the prestigious Higher School of Economics (HSE), once considered Russia’s most liberal university, have spent the summer worrying that their criticisms of the political status quo might put an end to their teaching careers.