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The cost to education development: A personal story

  At the beginning of 2021, commenced preparations to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Institute of Education at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, where I wasthe founder and director at that time. We were very proud of the results of our work, as the first graduate school of education in Russia, created from scratch, had become one of the largest research centers in education in continental Europe within 10 years. Our institute had more than 500 masters and doctoral students and over 140 researchers. . Despite our critical view of university rankings, it was also important to us that in 2020, according to one of the authoritative international rankings, our university entered the top hundred in the academic field of "education." This was undoubtedly an indicator of successful growth. However, perhaps the most important for us were not these formal indicators, but the fact that for the first time in the post-Soviet era, Russian educational research was represented...