The Round Table, titled "Education: How to Secure Country’s Success Amid Global Stratification," will be held on April 12, 2017, under the auspices of the HSE XVIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.

       The Valdai Discussion Club and VTsIOM launched the "Future Preparedness Index" project. The task of the project is to analyze the readiness of countries to respond to the challenges of tomorrow, their role in future scenarios, competitiveness for a variety of economic and political criteria, development of industries and social infrastructure, analysis of Russia's place in the world powers' rating.

       At a time when the global development economic paradigm is changing, competition between countries is not simply aggravated, failure becomes fatal. Replacing the universalism (at least the desire for it) of the world order is fragmentation, stratification, concentration of each state in self-development, even at the expense of others.

       The key to success is becoming the ability to produce intellectual property and breakthrough technologies, only in this case the country has a chance to "catch" the world's "nucleus." Otherwise, slipping into the second and third levels is inevitable. The main burden is placed on education. How can it be arranged to meet the challenges of the mid-21st century?

       Issues for discussion:

       Digital inequality and problems of the future education

       Perception of opportunities for getting education in the Russian society on the basis of surveys

       Technological development and opportunities/need for continuous education

       The image of the desired future and the path towards it

       Models of reforming education in the 21st century

       Moderator:

       Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs journal.

       Speakers:

       Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, Dean of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics

       Yulia Baskakova, Director of the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) research projects

       Evgeny Kuznetsov, member of the expert council of the Government of the Russian Federation

       Igor Remorenko, Provost, Moscow City University

       Working language: Russian

       Venue: April 12, 2017, Room 327-K, М-20, HSE

       Time: 12:00-13:30

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