Listserv: Higher Educational Developments in Russia and in the NIS

The Institute of International Education (IIE) announces a new electronic dissemination network on higher educational developments and advising issues in the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. The listserve is called "Higher Educational Developments in Russia and in the NIS" and sponsored by the Educational Testing Service's TOEFL Policy Council. It is designed to assist U.S. campus personnel who deal with students from Russia and other former Soviet republics receive useful information from NIS educational advisers. There are currently about 60 American Educational Information Centers (EICs) throughout NIS which provide assistance to students in applying to an American institutions of higher learning in the U.S.

The purposes of the listserv are:

• to provide the most up-dated information on changes in educational systems in the NIS
• to name and evaluate new educational institutions
• to set up a network between NIS educational advisers and U.S. university personnel
• to provide a forum for discussion among listserv users

To subscribe to the Listserv, send a message to:

[email protected]

DO NOT write a message in the subject line.
In the body of the message write:

subscribe nished-net youremailaddress

Feel free to send any relevant articles, questions, and announcements to:
[email protected]

This network is set up by the IIE office in New York and managed by Vika Komarovskaya [email protected] in Moscow's IIE office. We welcome your active participation in NISHED-Net and any suggestions for how it might most usefully meet your needs.

Last updated:    March 1997

More information on electronic resources in Eurasia can be found in CCSI's publication Internet Resources for Eurasia,1999 edition.

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