National University of Mongolia formalizes cooperation with Moscow Higher School of Economics

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The leaders of the two institutions signed a cooperation memorandum on November 1. In accordance with this, the National University of Mongolia and the Higher School of Economics of Moscow will cooperate in wide range of spheres, such as exchange of professors and students, holding workshops and training, establishing a research center for Mongolia-Russia relations, history and culture and organizing Russian language courses and official tests. In celebration of the newly bound cooperation, HSE Professor Aleksei A.Maslov delivered a presentation themed “Russia in Modernized Asia: new challenges and new ideas” on November 1 at the NUM. The HSE was founded in 1992, with an objective to train specialists competent to work in the new economic environment. The university was developed into an interdisciplinary university in 20 years, and enlarged 10 times, with campuses available in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Perm. The university instituted more than a hundred research centers, and has 2,500 professors and 27,000 students.