In recent decades, business and educational organizations have begun to interact much more frequently. Students from Italian design institutes intern at fashion houses Gucci and Ferragamo, students from Swiss business schools gain experience at the UN, and students from the world's leading technical universities perform tasks for Google. Not only large corporations and world-famous brands, but also small companies are showing interest in cooperation with educational organizations.

On December 5, 2023, the results of the new, eighth PISA study, the program for international student assessment, which has been conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 2000, were published. PISA results are published every three years and are considered the main indicator of the performance of education systems around the world. The new analytical report was especially long-awaited: due to Covid, testing of schoolchildren was carried out a year later than planned and, since this study was the first since the pandemic, analysts used the data to objectively assess the impact of quarantine on student performance.

We live in an age of rapid space exploration: scientists and researchers are creating super-powerful telescopes, discovering distant galaxies, photographing black holes and seriously discussing the colonization of Mars and the Moon. However, for two years now there have been no astronomy lessons on the schedule of Russian schoolchildren.

Despite the widespread opinion about the dangers of distance education, the online format has not become less popular after the pandemic. Moreover, the number of American families voluntarily switching to remote learning grew by 47% in 2021–2022 alone. This paradox has attracted the attention of researchers.