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24^th International Conference on Teaching, Education and Learning (ICTEL) took place at the Imperial College London on 12-13 September. HSE-Perm was represented by Ekaterina Zagorodnova, Dean of the Part-Time Education Faculty of Economics and Management, Associate Professor of the School of Management.

The 2017 Biennial World Communication Association conference took place from 2^nd to 6^th of August in the American University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). HSE-Perm was represented by academics from the School of Foreign Languages.

International freshmen at the HSE campus in Perm have taken part in an orientation session, where they met the leaders of the educational programmes and learned about the specific features of studying at the Higher School of Economics.

This course has been developed for international students and Russian citizens who have graduated secondary school and whose native language is not Russian.

On June 23-24, the international conference ‘Economics of Football’ was held in Kazan. This event was organized by the Higher School of Economics (HSE), the New Economic School and Kazan Federal University. Angel Barajas, Dennis Coates, Elena Shakina, Petr Parshakov, Iuliia Naidenova and Anna Bykova, staff members of the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy, participated in the conference. The researchers presented papers and worked as moderators, discussants and key speakers at various sessions and workshops.

The Higher School of Economics (HSE) has improved its position and taken 382^nd place in the 2017 QS Ranking, which was published on June 7, 2017.

The number of people subscribing to HSE’s online courses on Coursera, one of the world’s most popular online learning platforms, has reached 1 million. Users represent nearly the entire globe, with HSE courses being taken in nearly 200 countries.