Rector of Moscow State University (MSU) Lomonosov Viktor Sadovnichiy proposed the creation of a national rather than an international ranking of universities, with headquarters in Russia. This he said in the Thursday, June 20, at a press conference at the RBC.
This measure, according to the rector, will have to improve the status of the Russian universities. “Our rating will have to show another approach to the evaluation of higher education institutions on the other, different from the Anglo-Saxon system of education”, – he explained.
“And this is our rating, whose headquarters would be in Russia, would enter into negotiations with the existing ratings, especially with Europe, he would have to show another approach to the evaluation of universities,” – said V.Sadovnichy.
Rector of the main university of the country, adding that Russia’s Moscow State University and other institutions of higher learning are fundamentally different from Western universities and comparing them is not entirely correct.
“The fact is that, for example, in the United States of America, and in England and other countries, science is at universities. All the leading laboratories, except for two or three national laboratories are located in universities, and, of course, is changes the situation a little bit in the parameter of citation. Ratings priority is given to this parameter, “- he said.
Despite this, said V. Sadovnichiy, to participate in international rankings necessary.
“In the major international rankings – only four or five parameters that are taken into account when evaluating the school. these options are not always suitable MSU,” – said the rector.
However, he said that in spite of this, three of the four international ratings of Moscow State University is in the top hundred.
“We entered the Shanghai ranking, although there are considered the main criterion for Nobel Prize winners, the citation index. 50th place in the ranking, we took the Times, in the Webometrics among the top twenty in the world, took seventh place in Europe and the second – in the BRICS “- added V.Sadovnichy.
note, in the creation of a national ranking of universities Russian authorities are ready to invest 25 mln., but now a single system of such a list is not, are not defined the criteria to be taken into account of the rating. On this occasion, in the scientific community have been discussions.
June 20, 2013
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