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Building a World-Class University and the Role of the University Rankings: A Russian Case
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Khomyakov Maxim
The chapter is devoted to the analysis of the impact of the global academic rankings and the concept of world-class university upon the system of high education both globally and in contemporary Russia. The author analyses the use of the rankings in benchmarking and strategy planning, and demonstrates negative influence of the obsession with the rankings in some countries. The chapter considers the case of the strategy of Ural Federal University (Russia) as one of the examples of both use and abuse of the rankings in large regional Russian university. The author argues for the necessity of organizing transnational associations and consortia of the universities, especially in emerging countries (BRICS nations, for example), to resist neo-Imperial features of today's global Academia. One of the remedies the chapter proposes is to adopt the idea of plural modernities from sociology and to treat global education environment as kind of a multi-polar world. Then, the author argues, the rankings should be supplemented with qualitative comparative analysis of educational systems.
Lukina A., Tolstykh D., Экономическая социология 2026 Т. 27 № 1 С. 153–193
Amidst the ongoing crisis of social mobility and pronounced differentiation within the Russian higher education sector, investigating perceptions of inequality and mobility experiences among socially disadvantaged groups becomes particularly relevant. This study analyzes patterns of subjective upward mobility and stratification beliefs among first-generation students (FGS) — individuals without familial experience of higher education — compared ...
Added: January 20, 2026
Ananin D., Комаров Р. В., Реморенко И. М., Высшее образование в России 2025 Т. 34 № 2 С. 31–50
The issue of using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in education is the focus of both its advocates and critics. The world academic community is trying to consider the rapidly spreading phenomenon, to determine its place in the educational process and to work out the regulatory framework. The application of GenAI-powered services changes conceptual and didactic ...
Added: November 18, 2025
Panova A., Victoria Slepykh, Higher Education Quarterly 2025 Vol. 79 No. 4 Article e70077
The impact of academic inbreeding on research productivity remains unclear. This study examines a critical yet often overlooked distinction: How the link between inbreeding and publication activity differs when academics' primary focus is teaching versus research. Focusing on highly productive Russian PhD holders, our findings reveal a complex picture. For research-focused academics, inbreeding is related ...
Added: October 28, 2025
Lisitskaya T., Taranov P., Ugnich E. et al., Quality and Quantity 2024 Vol. 58 No. 1 P. 365–383
It is rather easy to identify the leading universities in a country, there are different established methods and indicators of excellence. Generally, it is more challenging to find ‘the second best’ universities which have the potential to become leaders, ‘the firsts’. In Russia, such an attempt has been made. The program of ‘Pillar Universities’ was ...
Added: June 15, 2023
Атсйор Г. А., Высшее образование в России 2023 Vol. 32 No. 3 P. 153–166
Added: June 2, 2023
Sergey M., Shibanova E., М.: НИУ ВШЭ, 2022.
After achieving mass participation in tertiary education, Russia faced a new challenge: how to turn educational expansion into equality of educational opportunities. Relative enrollment in tertiary education has stabilized, while the increase in the number of places in higher education has been unevenly distributed: across population groups, across universities, and across regions. Despite the expansion ...
Added: January 27, 2023
Shchemeleva I., Smirnova N. V., , in: International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Academic English in Turbulent Times.: Routledge, 2022. Ch. 19 P. 232–244.
Added: August 13, 2022
Rotar O., / Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2022. No. 65.
Research on Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and their effect on the development of the higher education (HE) sector has expanded over the last ten years. However, little is known about the determinants of MOOC adoption by academics. This study tests a proposed model that integrates individual and institutional level determinants of MOOC authorship. ...
Added: June 14, 2022
Suchkova S., Kuznetsova L., Belyaeva E. et al., , in: Englishization of higher education in Europe.: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
The dissemination of English and the role it plays in Russian higher education are connected with its internationalization - the process that has been gaining momentum over the recent decades spurred by a number of top-down and bottom-up initiatives. The role of English in university teaching and research is illustrated by the analysis of open ...
Added: December 6, 2021
Routledge, 2021.
This chapter is aimed at providing insights into main engagement and disengagement factors in international doctoral students (IDS) experiences at Russian universities. Following the Tinto’s model of student departure, we look at two domains of IDS integration - social and academic. Based on data from 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with IDS in three Russian universities ...
Added: October 15, 2021
Shibanova E., Malinovskiy S., European Journal of Higher Education 2021 Vol. 11 No. 3 P. 273–291
This research explores the interrelations of higher education and welfare state models in the USSR of the 1960-1980s and Russia of the 2000-2020s. We first address the extent to which the provision of higher education aligns with the key imperatives of welfare redistribution: eligibility, state-market balance, and equality. Second, we schematize the values – instrumental, ...
Added: June 29, 2021
Smirnova N. V., Guseva A., , in: Emerging Writing Research from the Russian Federation.: WAC Clearinghouse, University Press, Colorado, 2021. Ch. 5 P. 69–98.
In this chapter, we explore how writing has been taught in the domain of art history in Russia. We draw on academic literacy theory and work from two major premises: a) writing is a type of social practice and b) writing is closely linked with the knowledge-making practices in a discipline. We employed semi-structured interviews ...
Added: March 18, 2021
Lovakov A., Panova A., Sterligov I. et al., Research Evaluation 2021 Vol. 30 No. 3 P. 240–255
Many governments attempt to improve national higher education through the competitive support of universities. These policy approaches raise questions about the impact on the entire system—both in research and educational—of targeted support for a small number of universities. Addressing challenges in the measurement of university excellence initiatives are among the most vital topics in research ...
Added: March 1, 2021
Melikyan A., Вопросы статистики 2021 Т. 28 № 1 С. 38–49
The article presents the results of a study based on statistical methods for analyzing trends in the Russian higher education system over the five-year period preceding the global crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19. This study is one of the first attempts at a large-scale analysis of the growth rates of the performance indicators ...
Added: February 21, 2021
Smolentseva A., International Journal of Educational Development 2020 Vol. 78 P. 102265
The marketization of higher education in the 15 countries that were formally part of the USSR has established a system model that is distinctive within world higher education, the dual-track tuition system. The foundations of this model were established in the economic liberalization of late Soviet period which facilitated a common pattern in higher education ...
Added: August 30, 2020
Chirikov I., Shmeleva E., , in: Corruption in Higher Education: Global Challenges and Responses. Global Perspectives on Higher EducationVol. 46.: Brill / Sense, 2020. Ch. 22 P. 152–156.
The lack of academic integrity combined with the prevalence of fraud and other forms of unethical behavior are problems that higher education faces in both developing and developed countries, at mass and elite universities, and at public and private institutions. While academic misconduct is not new, massification, internationalization, privatization, digitalization, and commercialization have placed ethical ...
Added: May 25, 2020
Platonova D., European Journal of Higher Education 2019 Vol. 9 No. 4 P. 412–432
This study addresses the lack of studies of diversity in post-Soviet higher education systems. It aims to examine institutional diversity in two post-Soviet countries as the result of higher state and market forces in the context of high-participation systems of higher education. The ‘enrollment economy’ has become the most powerful signal for higher education institutions ...
Added: August 8, 2019
Malinovskiy Sergey, Shibanova Ekaterina, , in: International Briefs for Higher Education LeadersIssue 8.: Washington: Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement (CIGE), 2019.
Added: July 2, 2019
Gabdrakhmanov N., Vershinina O., Абилов А. В. et al., International Journal of Supply Chain Management 2019 Vol. 8 No. 2 P. 304–308
This study is devoted to assessing the supply chain management impact on universities promotion and efficiency in international and Russian universities' ratings on their development. The peculiarity of the study is that it considers both universities participating in the competitive recovery program and presented in international rankings, as well as those that do not participate ...
Added: May 20, 2019
Netherlands: Brill, 2018.
In the era marked by globalization and its profound impacts on individuals, societies, states and markets, world-class universities need to position themselves in the forefront of seeking conceptual and practical solutions to daunting challenges by paying greater attention to their roles in serving local society and contributing to global common goods. World-Class Universities: Towards a Global ...
Added: January 16, 2019
Smolentseva A., Froumin I., Konstantinovsky D. et al., , in: High Participation Systems of Higher Education.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Ch. 11 P. 295–333.
This chapter provides a detailed and extensive assessment of Russia’s high participation system (HPS) of higher education in historical perspective, also testing the seventeen propositions about HPS in terms of governance, horizontal diversity, vertical stratification, and social equity. The chapter provides substantial data on Russian higher education previously unavailable in the world literature. It argues ...
Added: June 26, 2018