Education – News

Linguatest,the recently launched Russian foreign-language certification testing system developed by HSE University specialists, continues to develop and expand its geographic scope. Test centres are currently open in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, and a new one is set to appear in Khabarovsk.

On the 1st of September, there was The Freshman Welcoming Ceremony at the Bachelor's programme "Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication" at the School of Foreign Languages.

The exam has been developed by the HSE School of Foreign Languages in compliance with all relevant international standards. On May 13, the Independent English Language Examination Centre opened in the HSE University building on Staraya Basmannaya Ulitsa, and the first students took the exam on May 16. In the future, the opportunity to take an independent assessment at the Centre is expected to be available not only to HSE students, but also to students from other universities, schoolteachers, and corporate clients.

A NASA engineer visited the HSE School of Foreign Languages

Over 40 faculty members and MA students of Department of Foreign Languages got together on the first day of autumn break, October 24th, to take part in the workshop on teaching ESAP (English for Specific Academic Purposes).

A master’s student of the the HSE School of Foreign Languages Ekaterina Borisova took part in Radboud Summer School offered by the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands).

Kate Borthwick, a Senior Enterprise Fellow (technology enhanced learning) within Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, has conducted a two-day workshop which involved practical work and discussion.

Marina Chashko, HSE Master’s program student, - a delegate of the first University Model United Nations in Venice (VeUMUN 2016)

A HSE team of linguists taking a master program “Foreign Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication” participated in the English Grammar Festival “Cambridge Grammar Fest 2015”. The team “Union Jack” was created by the most active and committed HSE representatives: Marina Chashko, Ekaterina Borisova, Mehrangez Burieva, Madina Davlatova, Sofia Esipova, Anastasia Kohanik and Tahmina Mirzoevaled by the head of the “Foreign Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication” master program – Galina Nikolaevna Gumovskaya.   

HSE signed an agreement with Cambridge University and is an authorized center to sit international KET, PET, FCE, CAE, CPE, BEC, TKT and ILEC exams.