12.03.2016 20:36
The authoritative British publication Times Higher Education (THE) has included five Russian universities in the top 200 best European universities. THE experts consider this modest result, taking into account the country’s population and GDP. However, the Ministry of Education in this opinion do not agree, the newspaper “Kommersant».
The study is based on the annual world ranking of Time Higher Education for 2015-2016, but applies only to European universities. The best among Russian universities on the continent THE magazine named MSU. Lomonosov Moscow State University, which was on the 79th row. St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Peter the Great took the 113th place, Tomsk Polytechnic University – 136 th, Kazan Federal University – 152 th, MEPI is located in a group of 161-170 seats. These universities (except for Moscow State University) are members of the program “5-100″ (according to the presidential decree, at least five of the leading Russian universities have to get into the top 100 world rankings: THE, QS, Shanghai)
In. THE appreciated Russia as a whole the results as “modest”, calling “the country with the lowest position in the ranking based on population and GDP.” One expert THE, professor at the Institute of Education, acting in the framework of University College London, Simon Margisson, in particular, indicates that in this situation, lead the “complexity the payment of salaries to foreign experts on a competitive basis, the low level of international publications and the level of international collaborations.”
Let’s remind, on the implementation of the program to improve the competitiveness of the leading Russian universities “5-100″ of the state budget was initially allocated 42 billion rubles. for 2013-2016, later the sum was increased to 44.5 billion rubles. In January 2016 the Accounting Chamber sharply criticized the project. Auditors warned about “the risks non-fulfillment of the decree” and expressed surprise that none of the participants of the project have not yet reached the top of the world rankings. Rector community explained the criticism of rating methodologies misunderstanding of universities (see. “B” of 14 January).
However, some experts say that it is the variability of rating methodologies helped Russian universities. Thus, Advisor to the Director of the Scientific Library. Gorky Olga Moskalev sure THE system, which uses an extensive database of various scientific journals to calculate citation index “does not insure by self-citation.” That is, the scientist can once again refer to my articles or colleagues to increase the citation index. “Some universities fall in ranking is due to a cheating – believes Ms Moskaleva.- example, the high position of the Kazan University, I can not explain it in a different way»
Kazan Federal University rector Ilsha Gafurov did not consider self-citations “. great crime. ” According to him, when a scientist is promoting the theme, it needs a reference to his early work and study colleagues: “We are moving in the Shanghai and QS-ratings. Each of them has its pros and cons ».
The press service of the Ministry of Education assured that Russian universities show” good results, increasing its presence “in the world rankings (which is based on a study of European universities ) seven times as compared with the previous year. In 2014-2015 in the overall ranking were only Moscow and Novosibirsk State University, is now in the list of 13 Russian universities.
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