The flagship university of the region. The Ministry of Education and Science has tripled the number of flagship universities. What is a flagship university in the region?

In 2013, the government decided to create a new type of institutes and universities, which were to be called flagship universities.

A flagship higher education institution is a university, which was created through the merger of several regional educational institutions.

There are special requirements for such a university:

• The first requirement concerns the number of people studying. According to the standards, the institution must have at least ten thousand students.
• The second requirement is the establishment’s income. It must be at least two billion rubles.

According to the program, flagship higher education institutions become leading educational institutions in their regions and regional divisions.

List of privileges provided to supporting higher education institutions by the state:

1. The number of budget places is increasing. According to the program, an increase in budget places is provided for in such areas as:

• Metallurgy.
• Chemistry.
• Mechanical engineering.
• Pedagogy.
• Journalism.
• Publishing.
• Story.
• Conflictology.
• Psychology.
• Linguistics.
• International relationships.
• Political science.
• Religious Studies.
• Customs business.
• Theology.
• Physical Culture.
• Philology.
• Jurisprudence, etc.

All flagship universities in Russia with budget places. But it is worth remembering that the increase in budget places is provided exclusively for master’s and postgraduate studies.

2. Obtaining government subsidies for scientific projects within the university and the region.

3. Funding from the state to improve the technical support of the institution.

The application was submitted by 80 higher education institutions. Each petition was considered by a special commission.

In 2016, the Ministry of Education and Science selected eleven such universities.

In 2017, the number of flagship universities increased by another 22 universities, which were divided into two groups:

1. The first group consists of educational institutions that receive funding from the country's state budget.
2. The second group includes educational institutions financed by regional budgets.

Table: list of flagship higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation in 2016

List of higher educational institutions included in the list of flagship universities in 2017:

1. First group:

• "VlSU".
• "MAGU".
• "NSTU".
• "Siberian State Medical University"
• "TulGu".
• "CSU".
• "YarSU".

2. Second group:

• "AltGu".
• "BSTU".
• "KamlSU".
• "KemGu".
• "MSTU".
• "MArGu."
• "NovGu".
• "PetrGu".
• "PsokvGu".
• "SSTU".
• "SSU".
• "SyktGu".
• "TSU".
• "YES".

Open Day

Each flagship higher education institution annually hosts an open day.

Open day is called applicant's day.

Why is it needed:

1. Consultation regarding admission.
2. Familiarization with faculties.
3. The opportunity will determine the choice of future specialty.

Important! Open days take place in late spring. You can find out the exact date of the applicant’s day on the official website of the higher educational institution.

Scholarships

In Russia, there are more than 15 types of scholarship payments to students who entered to study on a budget.

Scholarships:

1. Academic. There are simple and increased academic scholarship payments.

The amount of scholarships depends on its type and status:

• The minimum scholarship payment is 1340 RUB.
• The increased scholarship ranges from 4 to 15 thousand RUB.
• A full-time resident receives a monthly stipend in the amount of 6,700 RUB.
• The postgraduate stipend is RUB 6,300.

2. Social scholarship – 2,000 RUB. This is the minimum amount of the scholarship payment. The exact amount is assigned by the academic department based on the reasons for applying for a social scholarship.

3. Presidential. Students can receive presidential scholarships in the amount of 2,200 and 4,500 RUB for merit in their studies and educational process.

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The Ministry of Education and Science has selected 22 regional universities that will receive flagship status and funding for the implementation of the development program. The ministry selected the first 11 flagship universities last year

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The expert council under the Ministry of Education and Science selected 22 winning universities of the second stage of the competition to create flagship universities, Kommersant reports.

As the publication clarifies, the selected universities are divided into two categories according to the level of funding. The first group included eight educational institutions that will receive co-financing of the development program at both the federal and regional levels. These are the Stoletov Vladimir State University (VlGU), Murmansk Arctic State University (MAGU), Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after Alekseev, Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU), Siberian State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia (SibSMU), Tula State University (TulSU), Cherepovets State University (CSU) and Yaroslavl State University named after Demidov (YarSU).

The second group includes 14 universities: Altai State University (AltSU), Belgorod State Technological University named after Shukhov (BSTU), Kalmyk State University named after Gorodovikov (KalmSU), Kemerovo State University (KemSU), Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after Nosov, Mari State University ( MarSU), Novgorod State University named after Yaroslav the Wise (NovSU), Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU), Pskov State University (PskovSU), Saratov State Technical University named after Gagarin (SSTU), Sochi State University (SSU), Syktyvkar State University named after Sorokin, Tolyatti State University (TSU) and Ulyanovsk State University (UlSU). They will receive audit and expert support from the federal center, and subsidies from regional budgets.

The winners were selected after reviewing 80 applications. In the next three months, they will have to submit a five-year development program to the Ministry of Education and Science, for the implementation of which each university will be allocated an additional subsidy annually for three years. In 2016, its size reached 200 million rubles. The publication notes that it is not yet known how universities will be financed this year. This will be determined by the program board for each university individually.

“The council members were faced with the task of selecting the best projects that could bring significant development to their region. We examined each application individually, taking into account in detail the development program of each university, as well as the region’s position on its relevance and further support,” Olga Vasilyeva, head of the Ministry of Education and Science, told the newspaper.

In 2016, 11 universities received flagship status. These included Kostroma State Technological University (KSTU), Tyumen State Oil and Gas University (Tyumen State Oil and Gas University), Ufa State Petroleum Technical University (USPTU), Siberian State Aerospace University named after Academician Reshetnev (SibSAU), Don State Technical University (DSTU), Volgograd State Technical University (VolgSTU), Voronezh State Technical University (VSTU), Omsk State Technical University (OmSTU), Samara State Technical University (SamSTU), Vyatka State University (VyatSU) and Orel Turgenev State University (OSU).

According to the terms of the program, universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg, universities that are participants in the state program for increasing international competitiveness “5-100”, educational institutions from the federal category, as well as universities that are located in municipalities where there are already flagship universities cannot apply for flagship status. . Another condition for participation in the program, as Kommersant notes, is reorganization, that is, two or more regional universities must merge into one.

At the end of February, the government announced state support for leading Russian universities in 2017. Instead of the planned 14.5 billion rubles. They decided to allocate 10.3 billion rubles. 21 Russian universities will receive subsidies (three groups of leading universities, seven universities each, have been allocated).

The Russian education system today is undergoing serious reform. And the second stage of reforms carried out by the Ministry of Education and Science was the reorganization of the existing education system in higher educational institutions into regional flagship universities, which are a voluntary multidisciplinary association of educational institutions with the aim of creating a common training program.

The Russian education system today is undergoing serious reform. And the second stage of reforms carried out by the Ministry of Education and Science was the reorganization of the existing education system in higher educational institutions in regional flagship universities, which are a voluntary multidisciplinary association of educational institutions with the aim of creating a common training program.

It is expected that this innovation will reduce the number of universities by 25% (note that, according to representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, this is a forced measure that arose due to a reduction in the number of 11th grade graduates), and will also significantly increase the competitiveness of Russian universities at the global level. As part of this reform, the relevant ministry plans to create 100-150 main higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation, on the basis of which all the latest innovations in the field of education will be concentrated.

Activities to create flagship universities will cover:

• Educational institutions subordinate to the Ministries of Culture, Health and other departments.
• Universities under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and Science.
• All higher education institutions.

So, what is a flagship university? This is an educational organization of regional importance, created on the basis of the most promising university by joining it with one or more educational institutions located in the same region. It is expected that flagship universities will become a kind of center of gravity, which will perform the functions of an educational, educational, research, social and innovation center. Here, students will receive a quality education, employees will work, and partner organizations and government agencies will solve production and other problems.

How it all began

The idea of ​​reform has been brewing for a long time. At one time, Livanov and Volkov wrote about it in their articles (these innovations were recommended to small, narrowly specialized universities, which were clearly losing in the competition with larger universities).

However, reality made its own adjustments. Many experts have come to the same conclusion that modern Russian higher education system does not need a huge number of universities producing mediocre specialists. Today there is a need to create several dozen strong universities operating in close connection with the country's largest enterprises, which will not only improve the quality of training of young specialists, but also bring the Russian higher education system into a competitive environment.

To participate in the program for the creation of flagship universities, associations of federal subordination wishing to join the program were asked to send applications in which they had to:

• voice a decision on the reorganization of the created association,
• formulate development and activity paths for the next 5 years (2016-2020),
• provide a concept for staffing development.

It is noteworthy that not all universities were allowed to take part in the competition. In particular, those associations of universities that were created long before the start of the project cannot take part in the competition for the provision of subsidies. Moscow and St. Petersburg universities also turned out to be no place.

Currently eligible to participate in the program creation of flagship universities received 11 applicants. These included:

• State technical universities - Volgograd, Voronezh, Donskoy, Kostroma, Omsk, Samara, Ufa.
• State universities - Vyatka, Oryol, Siberian, Tyumen.

Experts are confident that these strongest universities will be an ideal basis for creating a powerful educational base at the regional level, which will not only ensure the training of highly qualified specialists and prevent the outflow of promising students to leading universities in such large cities as Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk, but will also contribute to the development the entire region as a whole.

Each of these structures claims to receive a basic annual payment of 200 million rubles (over the entire program from 1 to 3 years). At the same time, universities must allocate 20% of the amount of the provided state subsidy to the development of their own project.

It is already known that funding is distributed in unequal shares. The leaders in this "race" are:

• Kostroma State Technological University;
• Oryol State University named after. I. S. Turgeneva;
• Vyatka State University.

It is these universities that will receive the main subsidies - 200 million rubles per year. This is evidenced by protocol No. DL-5/05pr dated 02/01/2016. The remaining project applicants will receive subsidies in the amount of 100 and 150 million rubles. This decision was made by the commission based on the information provided university development programs and conditions for their implementation.

Achievements of goals

After the time allocated by the funding program has expired, each flagship university is obliged to switch to independent support. At the same time, quotas for foreign students and budget places will be significantly increased. Such increases will occur at the expense of those institutions that are not designated as flagship universities.

Each newly founded university must fulfill the following provisions of the program:

• The teaching staff must include at least 8 teachers with academic degrees for every 100 students.
• The total number of students must be more than 100 thousand people.
• The association's income should be about 2 billion rubles per year.
• The university must provide high-quality training for specialists in at least 20 different professions.
• Funding for each scientific work should be about 150 thousand rubles.

Opponents of the program

Despite the obvious support of the reform being carried out by the Ministry of Education and Science from the overwhelming majority of experts, programs for creating flagship universities There are also ardent opponents. These include the governor of the Irkutsk region (Levchenko). He believes that such changes will entail irreversible consequences and harm for both students and teaching staff. In his opinion, the independence of higher educational institutions is valuable in itself, and therefore should remain unchanged. But participation in the subsidy program should be allowed to each university, despite its lack of desire to merge with other educational institutions.

Sadovnichy (Rector of Moscow State University) is also cautious on the issue of unification. He believes that even small, narrowly focused universities have a right to exist and cites Harvard University as an example.

In turn, the rector of the Higher School of Economics (Kuzminov) believes that even if each region creates its own flagship university, their number will not exceed 100 units throughout the country. But for such a huge country as Russia, this is negligible.

Recently, the Ministry of Education and Science announced the start of the next stage of regional higher education reforms, the first step of which is to merge the flagship universities in the regions into multidisciplinary universities, which will reduce their number by almost a quarter. The pros and cons of this decision are being widely discussed throughout the country.

Statement

At the next meeting held by the Russian Union of Rectors, Minister D. Livanov said that the Ministry of Education and Science is beginning to unite flagship universities in the regions into multidisciplinary universities, which will contribute to the consolidation of higher education. The first stage - the creation of federal universities - has already been almost completed. The start of the second stage of reform program is planned for the very near future.

Financing, he said, will accompany the progress of innovations until 2020. The merger will affect universities subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science, and all education subordinate to the Ministries of Health, Culture and other departments. Multidisciplinary educational institutions will be funded under a five-year program.

Reason for reform

D. Livanov also noted that more than twenty universities are potentially ready to merge. They will be supported in every possible way, both financially and organizationally, since this step is responsible and important for the country. Academic councils of universities, however, must independently make decisions on consolidation, since in any case it is voluntary.

This process is forced only because it is dictated by the demographic situation in the country. The number of eleventh-graders is declining sharply and steadily, so universities with a small contingent of students will be forced to either merge with strong and large ones or cease to exist.

The meaning of reforms

Ten years ago, an education reform was developed, in which the Ministry of Education and Science envisaged the consolidation of Russian universities, that is, the unification of all small regional universities into a flagship university. There are no exact dates for the reform, but its meaning was outlined back in March 2015 in Vedomosti. In the article, D. Livanov and professor of the Skolkovo business school A. Volkov explained to the country what and why this was started.

They see the main thing in the structural policy of higher education as the creation of flagship universities, into which narrow-profile research institutes and small universities will merge, since only a few universities that can survive in the current circumstances will be able to compete in world rankings. In addition to them, a group of one hundred or one hundred and twenty higher educational institutions will be organized throughout the country, where all research, innovation and education will be concentrated.

Contrasting opinions

Rector Y. Kuzminov believes that the result of the program announced by the minister will be a reduction in the number of regional universities by 25 percent. Y. Kuzminov approves of the reforms because he agrees that a university with a small number of students will not be able to exist; it will not even be able to maintain a staff of full-time teachers, especially high-quality teachers. In his opinion, even if each region has its own flagship university, their number will not exceed one hundred.

The opinion of the rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University is very different from the opinion of the rector of the Higher School of Economics. He believes that one needs to be careful with consolidation of such a plan, since consolidation will not solve all the problems. And practice shows that in the world there are quite a lot of universities, although not large, but extremely strong, Harvard, for example, where there are only ten thousand students.

United universities

The associations began long before the above-mentioned statement by Minister D. Livanov. One has only to look at what the famous MIREA institute consists of today: MIREA plus MGUPI plus MITHT plus VNIITE plus RosNII ITiAP plus IPK of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. And at least four different stories of the university’s development. Will this monstrous synthesis ever be completed? In 2015, several more mergers were announced. MSPU is consolidating with MSGU - with the humanities, both universities - with their own glorious history, with their own path, with their own achievements. MATI merges with MAI - aviation with aviation-technical. Both universities, seemingly among the strongest, are not offended by the attention of applicants. Then why?

In addition, DGGU and TSU (Pacific State University), Orenburg University of Management (OGUM) and State University (OSU) merged. In Krasnoyarsk, the flagship university is the first federal university in the country - Siberian University. Back in 2006, the three largest higher educational institutions in the region merged into Krasnoyarsk State University. At the moment, ten such federal universities have already been created. The youngest is in Crimea, where seven universities on the peninsula were consolidated into one. The Minister of Education is confident that these actions will help create attractive conditions for retaining students in the region.

Key regional universities of the Russian Federation

In October 2015, D. Livanov signed an order regarding the competitive selection of regional universities in order to financially support their development programs and the subsequent creation of a base of educational organizations. The participant in this competition will be any state federal university where a joint decision has been made in favor of reorganization through the merger of one or more universities. This decision must be confirmed by the academic councils of all educational institutions involved. Universities that are in the process of consolidation can also take part in the competition if the order for reorganization was issued later than June 2015.

Out of competition

The flagship universities of the Russian Federation (ten of them have already been created), as well as those located in St. Petersburg and Moscow, cannot participate in the competition. Also, Project 5-100 participants cannot participate in this competition. According to this project, by 2020, five Russian higher educational institutions should take places in the top hundred. In each individual case, a flagship university program is developed.

In 2015, the legendary nuclear MEPhI left the 95th line in the world ranking (only for teaching physics, not in general) and jumped to 36th place, even surpassing Lomonosov Moscow State University. However, so far the experts of the Accounts Chamber have not established the effectiveness of the invested funds; not a single subsidized university in the Russian Federation (including MEPhI) has become more competitive.

Irkutsk history

The governor of the region, S. Levchenko, called the flagship universities of the Russian Federation a harmful undertaking and called on them to try with all their might to avoid participation in this competition of the Ministry of Education and Science. He is confident that it is impossible to carry out a purely mechanical unification into a flagship university without serious consequences: both students and the regional scientific elite will certainly suffer.

S. Levchenko considers this type of experimental division of educational institutions “by grade,” ill-considered and obviously violent consolidation in the name of some mythical seven indicators supposedly capable of determining quality in the most complex process of education, incorrect and harmful.

Counter offers

In his opinion, all specialized and sectoral universities in the regions should retain the independence and identity that is currently inherent to them. S. Levchenko proposes, instead of a mechanical merger, a softer option - a corporate merger with autonomous management, in which conflicts of interest will be avoided.

The competition conditions should be revised, according to Deputy Governor V. Ignatenko. There should be the possibility of individual participation so that any individual university can become a supporting one, even if there is no need for unification, but it fulfills more than half of the indicators included in the terms of the competition.

Financing

Budget funding will support only three types of higher education institutions. The first type is those ten federal universities that were created in the districts of the Russian Federation. The second is national research institutes, of which only 29 have been approved so far in the country. This includes IrNITU, MEPhI and others. The third type is those same flagship universities in Russia that began to be created in 2015. By the end of 2016, plans include the final determination of those one hundred universities that will be authorized to become flagship universities. To obtain this status, you need a strategic development program, which must be submitted for the competition, as well as a regional concept for the development of the territory in the field of staffing.

However, the main condition is the unification of the educational base of the entire region within the framework of one university. The state will heavily subsidize the flagship university for the first three years - at least two hundred million rubles per year. Plus, local authorities additionally finance what is provided for in the region’s human resources development program. Next, the flagship university will finance itself, but quotas for budget education and foreign students will be increased - at the expense of other educational institutions that do not have flagship status. Within five years, the flagship university’s program must be completed in all respects:

• At least ten thousand students.
• Training in at least twenty disciplines.
• At least eight teachers with advanced degrees per hundred students.
• Each researcher must earn at least 150 thousand rubles in research.
• The university's income is at least 2 billion rubles.

Which will receive support as being of key importance for the industrial and socio-economic development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. What results have already been brought by the introduction of flagship universities and what to expect from the project, Oleg Leshukov, head of the “Regional Studies of Higher Education” department at the Institute of Education, told Gazeta.Ru.

— People have heard more about the program for supporting universities “5-100” than about the program for flagship universities. What are the results of the first stage of this project, in which 11 universities are already participating?
— One of the formal results is an increase in the average Unified State Examination score. The growth is small, within a few points, but it is there. But the most important thing is the qualitative changes that began to occur in these universities. We see that almost all of them have begun to work with schools, which until recently was not always the focus. Universities participating in this program undertake to become talent attraction centers -

to actually retain talented graduates in their regions so that they do not leave for capital universities.

Universities began to consider these tasks for themselves as core tasks. They began to open specialized engineering classes and expand their networks of partner schools. In Krasnoyarsk, where the flagship university, the Siberian State Aerospace University, is located, the project of creating a Technoschool turned out to be a priority - detailed targeted work with schoolchildren who plan to further follow the engineering path, generate startups, and work in technology companies.

The second result is a change in the development strategy of universities and internal management. All flagship universities are consolidating their potential at certain points of growth - for example, creating new laboratories, opening new master's programs.

— How much money did the first wave universities receive?

— Some universities received 100 million, some received 150 million. The amount of co-financing is different for everyone.

— What new criteria have been added for participation in the second wave competition?
— 2-3 indicators were added, such as the number of teams that are in business incubators of universities, the total turnover of small innovative enterprises for universities, etc. And the main indicators are the number of students, the total income of the university, the volume of R&D per one scientific and pedagogical worker, the share of graduates employed within a year after graduation...

— What is the difference between the flagship universities project and the “5-100” program? Are universities not hindered by the struggle to enter these two programs?
- The answer is simple. The competition of flagship universities is not a competitor for the “5-100”; these are different segments of higher education, and this is its peculiarity. Universities from “5-100” are more focused on international global competitiveness, fighting for places in international rankings and inclusion in global academic networks.

The flagship universities have a fundamentally different task - promoting development within the region, and therefore their work is directed inside the territory where they are located.

— What difficulties and questions arose in the implementation of the first part of the project?
“This competition reflects the global trend towards identifying a cohort of universities designed to work locally and contribute to environmental regional development. If we talk about the first wave, the requirement to merge universities was a serious challenge in the first place.

-Where did it come from? Why do you even need to merge with someone in order to participate in the competition?
— Now it is difficult to reproduce the foundations that were laid in it, but there are a number of foreign studies that say that multidisciplinary large universities can be more successful than small niche ones. There are, however, directly opposite points of view; this requires additional analysis. But this challenge required a change in corporate culture, when the teaching staff of one university merges with the teaching staff of another university, there is a need to optimize the organizational structure, and so on.

— How do universities from poor regions where there is no large industry attract co-financing?
— Universities located in developed industrial regions include work with these enterprises in their programs. Universities from poorer regions are beginning to take on the role of developing proposals for the socio-economic development of the region. For example, in Kirov, Vyatka State University launched a program for forming a personnel reserve for the regional administration.

— Is creating a personnel reserve for the administration an important regional-forming task?
— The university takes on the task of supporting the region in terms of developing a model for the socio-economic development of the region.

This competition pushes them to take that proactive stance.

— Can we say that the first wave of the project has already made regional universities more attractive for applicants?
— The program is only one year old, it’s too early to draw any conclusions. But the positive effects are supported by the mentioned increase in Unified State Examination scores, and work with schools should lead to more school graduates knowing that there is an opportunity to study at a flagship university. The new status of universities makes them more visible in the overall landscape of the higher education system. This will be an additional incentive for schoolchildren and their parents to pay attention to them.