The number of universities with graduate school and graduate programs can be reduced – the Russian Newspaper

In the 2014-2015 academic year will take effect the new standards for graduate and postgraduate. On this “RG” reported the press service of the Ministry of Education.

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Now the document is being approved by the Ministry of Justice and will be published in the near future.

The standard will be prescribed requirements for organizations, training graduate students and leading master’s programs. For example, will take into account the number of publications in international journals and funding for a teaching position.

According to Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Alexander Klimov, “it will automatically lead to the fact that some educational institutions falls out of the list of those who have the opportunity to train graduate students and masters, and thus will be optimized list of universities “.

However, the Ministry of Education stressed that this does not affect the total number of seats in graduate school.

– There great interest from the research organizations actively involved in the process of post-graduate training. Already, more than 600 organizations Fano so wished, and have applied for the admission quotas, – told the agency.

How many universities will be able to meet the new criteria, is still unknown.

We recall how to write “WP” before the lava Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov said that part of the higher education institutions in Russia will be left without masters and post-graduate: “We will be universities, which will not graduate and graduate programs. Their will be a lot”.