Efim Pivovar is president of one of Russia’s leading universities – Russian State University for the Humanities. In a conversation with the Chief Editor of RussiaProfile.org, Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Prof. Pivovar speaks about the opportunities for foreign students at his university – and the shortcomings of its present programs aimed at foreigners.
He also speaks about other aspects of the internationalization of education at the university: encouraging the professors to go abroad and attracting Russian and foreign professors from the world’s leading universities to teach in Moscow. In other words – about the challenges one of Russia’s best educational establishments is facing in the process of going global.
