European University, a prestigious private graduate school well-known for its research in humanities and social sciences, has had its license restored by the education watchdog Rosobrnadzor.
The university became the centre of scandal when its license was revoked (была отозвана) in 2016, before being partially restored and then revoked again in 2017. It was announced in July that the school has passed Rosobrnadzor’s inspections and last week it reported that the educational license has finally been granted to them and all the students who had to halt (прекратить) their studies have been restored on their courses.
The restoration of the license comes as an unexpected turn of events after Russia’s education watchdog (служба по надзору) has stripped another private university, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, also known as Shaninka, of its license in June, a move that considered part of a wider crackdown on private universities often politically progressive and producing independent (независимый) research.
