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Ministry of Science and Higher Education proposes compulsory history entrance test for 35 fields of study from 2027
History to become a compulsory entrance examination for more applicants. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education has drafted amendments to the university admission rules for the 2027/28 academic year. History is to be made compulsory for those specialisms for which a university may currently choose between history and
Archive · Books · Moscow · Education
Children at the writers' congress, among them Irkutsk pioneers invited by Gorky
Children at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, held from 17 August to 1 September 1934. A delegation of Pioneers addressed the Congress with a greeting. Among the various groups of participants were children brought to the Congress by Samuil Marshak, who delivered a report arguing that writing
NB! · Education
Learning Our Roman Numerals
Archaeology · Museums · Education
Archaeologists find older mound beneath Grønhaug barrow containing ninth-century ship burial
In Norway, beneath the Grønhaug mound, 30 metres across and 4 metres high, on the island of Karmøy, an oak ship some 15 metres long was buried. This has been known since the excavations of 1902. In August of this year, archaeologists of the Museum of Archaeology at the University
Archive · Observations · Education · Society
Tuition fees in Soviet upper secondary schools and universities abolished from 1 September 1956
Fees for study in the upper forms of secondary schools, in specialised secondary institutions and in the higher educational establishments of the USSR were abolished only from 1 September 1956. My grandmother always used to tell how hard it was for her parents to pay for her schooling, and the
Archive · Moscow · Education
Moscow: A City of Universal Literacy
Photo collage, 1934
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Interior of the Ceremonial Hall of the Academy of Arts Library in Saint Petersburg, 1900s
The ceremonial hall of the Academy of Arts library. Saint Petersburg, 1900s
NB! · Moscow · Education · Society
Chief Accountant of the University Appointed Acting Rector of GITIS
Aristocracy · Observations · Education · Pop Culture
West Heath Girls School and the Scottish Ancestry of Tilda Swinton
Just learned that Tilda Swinton and Diana Spencer were in the same class at West Heath Girls School, a boarding school near Sevenoaks in Kent. Tilda Swinton remembered boarding school as a very lonely place. West Heath Girls School was a prestigious, though not first-rank, private school for girls.
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We Are Tired of Using “You” to the Stars, We Have Learned the Sweetness of Roaring
The programme of the Futurists in two lines of Khlebnikov, written around 1908. We wish to say “thou” to the stars We are tired of saying “you” to the stars We have learned the sweetness of roaring Be fearsome, like Ostranitsa, Platov and Baklanov, Enough of your bowing To the
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The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "A Feat of Enlightened Philanthropy" for the 150th anniversary of the Central School of Technical Drawing, founded by Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz (1814-1884), the greatest Russian banker of his age, who fi
The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "A Feat of Enlightened Philanthropy" for the 150th anniversary of the Central School of Technical Drawing, founded by Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz (1814-1884), the greatest Russian banker of his age, who financed the state loans for the Crimean War and the