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In Russia will be a unified national ranking of universities – SoftSraze: actual and objectively

> In Russia will be a unified national ranking of universities
By the middle of June, the Russian Union of Rectors and Ministry of Education have finished work on the instruction of the President of the Russian Federation and will voice their ideas and vision of creating a list of the national ranking schools.

The President of the Russian Union of Rectors Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University Lomonosov Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy has already sent a letter in which he outlined the concept of the national ranking of universities Deputy Minister of Education and Science Alexander Klimov, writes Izvestia.

This ranking will be completely independent and will be formed on the basis of objective parameters to be checked, without the participation of experts’ assessments, but it will be drawn up by government funding. However, this is not the final version of the formation of the rating, it is possible to be amended during the discussion of representatives of the Ministry of Education, the Russian Union of Rectors and experts.

According to the rectors of the rating should be national, to be headquartered in Moscow, and is recognized and it must be outside Russia. The rating should be formed itself on objective parameters, you must consider the impact of the university on the economy, the impact on the academic sphere, the quality of education.

The criteria according to which the planned selection of universities in the ranking, “tracing the fate of graduates working in the best positions of professors universities of the world’s leading researchers and the best research organizations; the fate of graduates working in management positions and positions of the leading researchers in the largest international companies; the fate of graduates working in positions of professors of the best Russian universities and the leading researchers of the best Russian scientific organizations; the proportion of graduates working in management positions and positions of the leading researchers in the largest Russian companies; quantitative parameters related to the flow analysis reviews the activities of the university in national and international media as well as in academic social networks; cumulative impact factor of articles published by employees of the university in the leading international journals per research and educational personnel; the share of articles in leading international journals written by employees of the university in collaboration with foreign colleagues ».

Sadovnichy noted that Russia already et ratings are created” Interfax “and rating agency” Expert “, which not only for Russian universities but also for the countries of the CIS there.
In his letter Sadovnichy said: “It is clear that without government support, none exists in the Russian rating agency would not be able to create and bring to a decent level of a new version of the international rankings of universities. Therefore PCP considers it necessary that the Ministry of Education has provided special funding for the development of national and world rankings of universities, it is possible – within the framework of existing federal target programs ».

He also stressed the need for non-expert assessments of universities, as only the application objective parameters.

According to the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Oleg Smolin education must be considered as well and the development of information technologies in the ranking of “Worldwide, there is a fierce struggle for human resources, in many ways this fight is due to the development of massive online courses. On one “kursary” account for nearly 10 million students, including more than 200 thousand. Russian. We occupy the 9th place in terms of population, and 5th place in the number of [coming] courses. Yet the students really have time to show their abilities as experts have monitored more capable and have the offer or place in some universities, a place in firms focused on specific technologies. Stop the process can not, we must do it ourselves. In recent years, I know that interest in Lomonosov Moscow State University ».

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