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The paper considers dynamics of formation and development of polygraph-using investigations (PUI) at the Department "Information Security" and Regional Training and Research Centre "Security" (RUNTS) in BMSTU. These studies are conducted to make diagnose that a person conceals information on the past events. The paper describes creating a unique lecture and laboratory module in PUI at the Department in 2008. It shows RUNTS activities in 2008-2015, giving assistance to public authorities to use the PUI and, in particular, providing assistance to Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the advanced training of specialists in PUI and developing a "Typical technique for forensic psychophysiological expertise using a polygraph" for them. The paper shows that the educational process carried out by the Department is reconciled with RUNTS works in the field concerned.

The Polish government has introduced measures to promote further internationalisation of its higher education system by bringing in more foreign students, writes Matthew Reisz for Times Higher Education.There are currently about 46,000 foreign students studying in Polish universities. This in itself represents an increase of about 10,000 (or close to 30%) over the previous year. Yet new regulations introduced on 7 August are designed to provide further impetus to this trend by making conditions for study and research even more attractive.

Vietnam will not co-operate with any foreign governments to open more universities until at least 2020, according to a new decision by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, reports VietnamNet Bridge.The prime minister requested a focus on developing the existing two national universities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City into leading universities which will gradually reach regional and world standards. He also said the three existing universities in the New Model University Project, including the Vietnamese-German University, the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and the Vietnam-Japan University, needed to be developed into world-class universities.

An increasing number of Dutch universities are rejecting prospective masters degree students who don’t average scores of at least seven in their bachelor degree subjects, reports DutchNews.nl.According to the Volkskrant, Rotterdam School of Management has introduced a minimum bachelor pass rate for all subjects. Students who wish to study politics at a higher level need an average score of seven in their bachelor degree papers, to write a motivational letter and to pass a test in English to win a place. The same applies to politics in Leiden and is being introduced for archaeology masters degrees.

Nearly half of the 60 national universities with humanities and social science faculties plan to abolish those departments in the 2016 academic year or later, according to a survey conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun.Conducted among presidents of national universities across the country, the survey found that 26 intended to eliminate these departments.The universities will stop recruiting students for a combined total of at least 1,300 places, mainly in their teacher training faculties. Some of these slots will be allocated to newly established faculties.The survey highlighted the wave of reform sweeping over humanities and social science faculties.

A brief review of the scientific and technological achievements for the first half of the XIX century in the field wiring, as well as the life and work of state councilor, Baron PL Schilling, you-a groundbreaking Rus-sian ethnographer, linguist, cryptographer, the inventor of the world's first electromagnetic telegraph, and communication cables, the author of the first history of undermining mines in the electric wire, the creator of the world's first telegraph code, and the best in the XIX century, a secret code. Schilling is also known as one A.S. Pushkin and creator of the first Russian lithography Russian hussar stormed Paris, a great chess player and the first European explorer of the Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhism. The data on education Schilling, his subsequent service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Russia in the State of Bavaria, contacts with German scientists in Munich, including von Humboldt in the field of linguistics, A. Zenefelder in lithography and T. Soemmering in the field of electricity, to determine its future research interests.