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The paper aims to present the theoretical and methodological foundations for developing and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) instruments in higher education within the HumanCentered AI framework and considers ChatGPT as a specific case. It is oriented toward critically analyzing scholarly literature from various disciplines to support a-disciplinary approach to utilizing AI research in higher education. The authors begin by outlining the foundations of the research, then by analyzing the implications of the “lessons” of the COVID-19 pandemic for the development of higher education in the age of AI. This is followed by an analysis of technologies such as ChatGPT that have the potential to radically change higher education in the near future. After that, the authors move on to general remarks about the prospects and challenges of using AI technologies in higher education. The relevance of the research is characterized by the analysis of the latest developments in the field of AI and their possible impact on higher education. The main results of the paper are characteristics of areas in which AI technologies can be implemented in higher education – accreditation and licensing of universities, student recruitment, teaching and learning – as well as areas in which AI technologies should not be used. In conclusion, two hypotheses are formulated, and three general and five specific conclusions about the use of AI technologies in higher education are made.

The paper deals with comparative analys is of international university rankings methodology and a complex of measures for Russian higher education development suggested by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. It is revealed that the “roadmap” for higher education development does not allow predicting improvement of national university ranking in international surveys. Some important directions for Russian university recognition by international educational society are suggested in the paper.

The involvement of parents in the education of their children-students is a growing trend, linked to later socialisation. However, the question of how parents demonstrate their involvement at the university level is not well researched. This paper aims to identify the types of parental involvement in the education of university students and describe their distinctive features. The article presents the results of an empirical study on parental involvement in the educational process of university students. Based on cluster analysis of survey data from first-year students at nine Russian universities across different regions of the country (N = 5012), three types of parental involvement were identified: ‘restless’, ‘liberal’, and ‘passive’. ‘Restless’ parents are characterised by a higher level of control, monitoring academic performance and attendance. Parents who are considered ‘liberal’ tend to give their children more autonomy and take an active interest in their achievements and problems at university. On the other hand, ‘passive’ parents are not involved in the educational process at university. The study analysed the types of parental involvement based on family characteristics, experience of school graduation, and university enrolment.

This paper presents a scientifically based approach to analyzing large volumes of data from digital traces of students on social networks, which allows you to effectively identify emerging and most discussed problems among students, as well as highlight pain points that provide opportunities for growth, development of universities and improvement of the characteristics of the educational process, support for students etc. The study is based on a thematic analysis of messages published in university communities on the VKontakte social network using big data tools. The study results showed that Russian university students still face a number of challenges, including weak technical infrastructure at universities, a digital divide in access to online education, and negative attitudes towards distance learning.The scientific problem of the study is the contradiction between the existing volume of unstructured data of students’ digital traces in social networks and the lack of a scientifically-based and proven methodological approach to the analysis and evaluation of this voluminous data, which creates obstacles to fundamental research into the relationship between students’ activity in social networks and their satisfaction quality of the educational process. The practical focus is determined in conducting data analysis using big data tools. The findings and evidence-based implications are useful for developing innovative strategies and tools for assessing and supporting students.The results show that the use of big data tools for tracking trends based on digital traces of students on social networks provides highly accurate analytical data and can become the basis for identifying problematic situations in individual universities and the industry as a whole, for data-driven decision-making and management .

The paper presents results of analyzing age structure of Russian state universities teaching staff and its dynamics in the post-Soviet period. It is shown that due to the rapid decline after 2010 in the proportion of young people under 30 years of age and increasing share of population over 65 years of age, the imbalance is growing in favor of older people. Comparing average age of university professors and that of the employed population in dynamics shows some exceedance of the former. At the same time, for more than two decades their ratio stayed constant – the average age of teachers was 20 percent or about 8 years more than that of the employed population, which is caused, among other things, by a longer-term professional training. Analyzing age structure for various positions reveals its overall balance, with professors being the oldest in terms of average age, and assistants being the youngest.The study found significant changes of a position structure, affecting primarily professors, whose share has increased several times, as well as assistants and teachers, who occupy two lower positions in the teaching staff. Their share has decreased even more. Insight into teaching staff age structure and osition structure in Russian universities shows that changes in age characteristic, especially shrinking young people population, are associated with job positions, especially with almost complete disappearance of the teaching staff on assistant and lecturer positions. A teaching staff distribution by position also shows that more than three-quarters of the total staff have positions no higher than associate professor. It means this position is actually a “glass ceiling” for teachers in Russian higher education. This fact and almost complete lack of assistants and lecturers result in a two-stage career ladder (senior lecturer – associate professor) for the vast majority of teaching staff in Russian universities, which will inevitably have a negative impact on the level of his qualifications.

Abstract. The paper proposes an approach to the estimation of university professors’ age. Its purpose is to analyze the median age of teachers in Russian universities and identify problems relating to the teacher age structure. The paper considers various factors affecting teachers’ median age, such as the median age of employees in economics, average number of years of study, teaching staff job structure. There is a trend to the median age decrease for teachers on lower positions and the median age increase for teachers on top positions in a job structure. There is given the median age of teachers on certain positions, a teacher career ladder is proposed with estimated waiting periods for the next job position. The paper concludes that professional stability of middle-aged teachers is low, leading to polarization and thinning of the middle layer in teacher age structure, and this is the main problem.

Changes in the Russian system of higher education presented new challenges to universities in terms of their achievements and to professional scholars as well. Scholars forced to become muchmore active both in teaching and research. They have to publish more articles and research papers in prestigious foreign journals in English. They are induced to improve their skills or give way to those who are younger, have experience in leading educational and research institutions, or greater in academic achievement.The paper analyzes the strategic documents of the leading Russian universities, annual reports on the implementation of development programs.Russian scholars mostly write in Russian, read and cite articles of Russian-language authors. There were 89.9 articles per 100 persons in journals indexed in the database of the Russian Science Citation Index, 4.1 articles per 100 persons in the Web of Science, 5.3 articles per 100 persons in Scopus in 2013. The leading universities are intended to increase by 5 the number of articles in the foreign bases by 2020.On the one hand organizational culture and the principles of academic management may offer opportunities for development, gaining new competences, participating in contests and research. On the other hand the current situation can impose restrictions and provoke a teacher on the informal practices.

The paper highlights the implementation of programme on National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University competitiveness enhancement in the group of top level world research and academic institutions and the promotion to TOP-100 of the world academic rankings. The strategic goal is TPU development as research university - one of the leaders in resource-efficient technologies, solving global problems of humanity on the way to sustainable development. Meeting a goal is planned through focusing the efforts on four basic development vectors: “Education”, “Research”, “Human Resources” and “Management”. The paper reveals the TPU undertakings for achievement of the assigned goals.

The paper deals with the specific features of higher education quality assurance in France based on the development of partnership between government, universities and independent agencies. The information about the two independent agencies providing assessment ofeducation quality – AERES and CTI is presented. The results of comparative analysis of Russian and French quality assurance systems in education are discussed with the aim to study the possibility of foreign experience transformation into the practice of Russian universities.

“Applied” bachelor degree programs have to provide for the graduates practical training specificfor vocational education and theoretical education specific for the programs of higher education on the level of the “academic” bachelor degree programs. The paper is focused on the potential trends and conditions of such programs implementation. The specific features of the structure and content of the educational programs are defined on the basis of the comparative analysis of requirements for learning outcomes (competences) of the graduates of “academic” bachelor degree programs, vocational education programs and “applied” bachelor degree programs.

While the international environment remains characterized by the desire of states to strengthen their position, the literature has revealed a growing preference for soft power instruments over military intervention. Higher education has been repurposed as a tool to achieve foreign policy goals, with many states embracing the international norm on world-class universities in an attempt to improve their international competitiveness and their image abroad. This paper considers the soft power conversion model of higher education and attempts to determine its effectiveness through a case study devoted to Russian Higher Education. A survey of foreign students starting their studies and of another finishing their studies in three leading Russian universities reveals that receiving a higher education in Russia may contribute to aligning students’ positions with the Russian perspective on international issues diffused in these universities as was confirmed by surveying a control group of Russian students. These preliminary findings suggest that the benefits of internationalizing national higher education systems are not just reserved to the norm initiators (US, UK) but extend to second wave norm adopters (Russia, China).

The main problems considered are the difficulties of interlinking Federal State Educational Standard with professional standards and compliance with the principle of regionalization in the development of independently established educational standards in linguistics. A brief analysis of the university's consultations with employers in the field of translation activities is given, which is aimed at formulating professional competencies if professional standard is not available. The complexities of the competence approach implementation in terms of the competence assessment are discussed, as well as the problems of student-centered learning within the framework of Bologna process and the organization of individual educational routes. The paper gives examples of methodological work with regulatory documents, illustrates innovative aspects in the practice of a modern university, in particular, the use of mobile modules, project training and MOOC courses as additional learning resources.

The article focuses on using the results of national university rankings by Russian universities. The author identifies the practice of the ranking results transfer to potential stakeholders, the key groups of stakeholders for universities and the main tools of result transfer. The paper high-lights using of ranking results by the universities as data for analytics, benchmarking and indicative planning. The author dwells on some practices of using ranking results for development strategies elaboration and the positions responsible for working with the ratings. In conclusion several recommendations are given to expand the potential for working with university rankings.

The paper analyzes the specificity of the position of Russian socio-humanitarian journals in Scopus citation database, addresses the lacuna of publications on educational issues that does not correspond to the declared by Scopus principle of geographical diversification. The authors stress the need for presence in the Scopus the publications covering the perspective of domestic higher education. Researchers in many countries including European consider the investigations of Russian theorists of higher education to be worthy of attention because of their creative and look-ahead character.

The paper analyzes indicators that are used in higher education institutions and autonomous campuses monitoring, and reveals the corresponding problems, which arise from implementing these indicators to autonomous campuses in Russian small cities. The authors arrive at the conclusion that without higher education institutions Russian small cities do not have development perspectives. In medium-term perspective it signifies an extreme polarization of economic space of Russian Federation.

The article describes some approaches to the organization of training of professionals for high-tech industries at the UNN Faculty of Physics using the resources of the Physical-Technical Research Institute of UNN. The paper presents a number of successful results of this activity. It is shown that the combination of fundamental training carried out at the classical Faculty of Physics and practical training at the Research Institute focused on the application of research results in the industry ensures a new level of quality for the competences of the University graduates.

The paper shows the gender structure of higher education teaching staff in the post-Soviet Russia, and draws the results of comparison with foreign countries. The data is based on Russian and international educational statistics. The objective of this work is to reveal the type of dynamics of the gender structure of higher education teaching staff at the turn of the XXI century. It also demonstrates peculiarities of Russian higher education teaching staff feminization through a number of methods, including analysis, comparison, and quantitative evaluations (percentage, indices, and statistical series etc.) as well as by application of such parameters as proportion of women, and gender parity index. The gender aspect of the official structure of Russian higher education teaching staff is viewed as the gender composition of the teaching staff according to the level of the official structure as well as men/ women distribution by these levels. Summary: with higher education teaching staff gradually feminizing worldwide, this trend gains still greater speed in Russia. Moreover, the higher the official level is, the higher the feminization goes.

The theory of epistemological diversity is one of the modern trends in epistemology. Basing on this theory, the author gives a description of a special kind of knowledge - subject-practical knowledge. On author"s opinion the education system works both with scientific and subject-practical knowledge and it leads to a strategic contradiction because treatment of two different types of knowledge cannot be effectively implemented in standardized forms. The paper discusses the changes in the educational strategy required by a situation of coexistence of the two types of knowledge in higher education.

The paper explores emerging trends of modern society that have created tremendous impacts on higher education, both in worldwide and national scales. Implementing e-learning initiatives as the response of higher education institutions to major challenges isdiscussed. Educational process reforming through the use and development of e-learning technologies at the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University is shown.

The key theme of the paper is managerial decision making process in Russian academic science and higher school. The author states that education and science have an international character but also have a domestic specificity resulting from the national history and culture. So, the managerial decisions aimed at reforming of social institutions should beviewed through the historical perspective, and the core principle in this process is “do no harm”.

This study examines the educational achievements of first-year students. The aim is to evaluate the relationship between performance in pre-university period with the academic performance of first-year students through the lens of adaptation to the university environment. The theme of factors of academic achievement of students, on the one hand, is well developed in the American research tradition, where this issue is devoted to hundreds of works and dozens of different experimental plans. On the other hand, in Russia there are almost no studies which have examined this association on national representative samples and using longitudinal data. The presupposition of this study is the notion that educational outcomes of students, among other things, meaningful manner associated with characteristics of learning in high school. Studies that simultaneously link student achievement in school, and after – at the time the student, it is not enough. As predictors of student academic performance were selected characteristics of schools, student performance in school, and characteristics associated with additional education. The paper presents the results of correlation and regression analysis. The study revealed significant Pearson correlation coefficient between grades in grades 10-11 and grades at the University, however, none of the parameters did not exceed 0,3. As for the other predictors, it was found that academic performance at the university linked to school performance, the fact of studying in a selective school, participation in activities of career guidance, higher education on the humanitarian or socio-economic specialty.