Roughly two months after regulators pulled the accreditation of “Shaninka” (the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences) — sparking fears of a government crackdown on independent private universities — the outlook is now much rosier for a sister school.
On August 10, Russia’s Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency restored the operating license for European University at St. Petersburg, which was revoked in late 2016. The school says it will reinstate all students whose studies were disrupted by its regulatory problems.
For more about Shaninka's loss of accreditation
- ‘This whole farce would make a decent hands-on course of its own’ Shaninka’s social sciences dean discusses the school’s loss of Russian accreditation
- 50 major Russian universities tell Putin that Russia's state accreditation process needs to be overhauled
- Academics rally to the defense of a Moscow college stripped of its state accreditation
- Regulators have revoked their accreditation of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, one of Russia's last major private colleges