Internationalisation of Higher Education in Russian Federation:

External Survey

Research conducted n frames of HARMONY project, KA2 Erasmus +

Programme – Capacity Building

REPORT

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Introduction

This report relates to the study conducted in frames of Harmony Project No.

561561-EPP-1-2015-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP (KA2 Erasmus + Programme –

Capacity Building).

The questionnaire was prepared with the purpose of analysing the level of

internationalisation of higher education, research and innovation in countries

participating in the project.

The questionnaire development was achieved through methodological workshop on

questionnaire drafting. The questionnaire drafting was produced by partners for

each Partner country: Armenia, Belarus and Russia as well for EU countries in order

to address the peculiarities of each side.

This report analysis the current state of higher education internationalization in

Russian Federation based on the study outcomes.

Brief Information for comprehensive report (Russia)

General overview of the higher education

Education in Russia is provided predominantly by the state. The Federal Ministry of

Education is the executive body responsible for the formulation and implementation

of education policies at all levels. Under its purview is the Federal Education and

Science Supervision Agency, which is tasked with the supervision and quality

control of education institutions. Regional Ministries of Education are responsible

for policy implementation at the local level (World Education News and Reveiws

n.d.).

Russian Federation is now in the process of transition from its traditional tertiary

education model to three cycle degree system withi n the Bologna Process. Russian

higher education traditionally was not divided into undergraduate (bachelor's) and

graduate (master's) levels. Nowadays the Russian higher education institutions may

confer the following degrees and diplomas:

Bachelor Diploma (at least four years of study);

Specialist Diploma (five to six years of study);

Master Diploma (two years of study on the basis of the specialist or bachelor

degree).

In 2015/16, there were a total of 896 recognized tertiary education institutions in

operation in the Russian Federation. Public institutions are categorized into:

Big multi-disciplinary universities

Academies specialized in particular professions, such as medicine, education,

architecture or agriculture

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Institutes that (typically) offer programs in singular disciplines, such as music

or arts.

There are 50 specially-funded and research-focused National Research Universities

and Universities of National Innovation, as well as nine Federal Universities, which

were established to bundle regional education and research efforts, and focus on

regional socioeconomic needs in more remote parts of Russia.

Finally, there are two National Universities, the prestigious Lomonosov Moscow

State University and Saint Petersburg State University. These well-funded elite

institutions have special legal status, and are under the direct control of the federal

government, which appoints their rectors and approves university

charters. University is arguably Russia’s most prestigious institution and currently

enrolls more than 47,000 students. Modeled after German universities, it was

founded in 1755.

Private institutions now account for some 366 accredited institutions – just over one

third of all higher educations in Russia. The number of students enrolled in these

universities has increased considerably over the past decades – between 2000 and

2014 alone the number of students at private universities grew by 88 percent,

from 470,600 to 884,700 students. Today, private universities tend

to supplement public education with more specialized niche offerings, rather than

compete directly with the bigger state-funded universities. Private enrollments

account for only about 16 percent of all tertiary enrolments.

(Study in Russia n.d.)

Rankings and International Reputation

The Russian Ministry of Education maintains a webpage dedicated to tracking the

progress of Russian universities in global rankings. As of 2016 rankings, the goals of

the 5/100 project to place five Russian universities in the top 100 of global rankings

still seem distant. Lomonosov Moscow State University was the only Russian

university among the top 100 in the most common rankings. It was ranked at

87th place in the Shanghai ranking (followed by St. Petersburg State University and

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Novosibirsk State University at 301-400 and 401-500, respectively). In the Times

Higher Education Ranking, Lomonosov reached 188th place in 2016/17 with no

other Russian universities among the top 300. In the QS ranking, Russia’s flagship

university reached 108th place followed by St. Petersburg State University ranked at

place 258. Of note is also that Russia in 2016 announced that it will launch its

own international ranking, including universities from Russia, Japan, China, Brazil,

India, Iran, Turkey and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). UNESCO

Institute of Statistics (UIS) indicates that inbound students in Russia increased

almost three-fold between 2004 and 2014 from 75,786 to 213,347 students (World

Education News and Reveiws n.d.).

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Questionnaire distribution

The Russian partner universities of HARMONY consortium were responsible for a

separate district in accordance with their locations to disseminate the questionnaire

and collect data from the universities.

The responsibilities for conducting the survey were distributed as follows (see the

chart below):

University Federal District

Voronezh State University Central Black Soil District

International Centre for innovation in

Science, Technology and Education

Northwestern Federal District

Central Federal District

Penza State University Volga Federal District

Southern Federal University Southern Federal District

The questionnaire was disseminated by the staff of International Offices of the above

mentioned universities via electronic mail. Օfficial address signed by vice rectors for

international cooperation of partner universities to the vice-rectors and heads of

departments of International Cooperation of the universities in the respective

federal district was sent. The address contained contact details of the staff members

who are involved in implementation of the HARMONY project and provided

consultations to the university staff responsible for conducting the survey. The

questionnaire was sent to 119 universities and yielded a responce rate of 36 % (43

universities answered the external questionnaire (mostly state universities)). The

data is provided for 2015-2016 academic year.

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Below is provided the abbreviations of the universities, used in the further

analysis and the report.

Name of your Institution Acronym

1 Don State Technical University DSTU

2 Peter the Great Sant Petersburg Politechnic University SPbPU 3 Tula State University TSU

4 Kuban State Agrarian University after T. Trubilin KubSAU 5 Belgorod State Technological University BSTU

6 North-Caucasus Federal University NCFU 7 Tambov State Technical University TSTU

8 Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev OSU

9 National Research Saratov State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky SSU

10 Samara State Economic University SSEU

11 Volga State University of Technology VSUT 12 Voronezh State Technical University VSTU

13 Volgograd State University VolSU 14 Northern (Arctic) Federal University NArFU

15 Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University SRSPU(NPI) 16 Dagestan State University DSU

17 Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev NNSTU

18 Rostov State Economic University RSUE 19 Southwestern State University SWSU

20 Armavir State Pedagogical University ASPU 21 Tver State University TSU

22 Novosibirsk State University of Economics NSUEM 23 Astrakhan State Technical University ASTU

24 Voronezh State Medical University named after N.N. Burdenko VSMA

25 Novgorod State University after Yaroslav-the-Wise NovSU 26 Kursk State University KSU

27 Voronezh State Agricultural University named after Peter the Great VSAU 28 Don State Agrarian University DSAU

29 Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University) SPbTU 30 Kostrom State University KSU

31 Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University ULSPU

32 Tula State Pedagogical University after Lev Tolstoy TSPU 33 I.G.Petrovsky Bryansk State University BSU

34 Ivanovo Institute of Power Engineering named after V. I. Lenin IGEU 35 Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute after M.E. Evseneva MordGPI

36 Penza State University of Architecture and Construction PSUAC 37 Voronezh State Pedagogical University VSPU

38 Chuvashian State Pedagogical University named after Yakovlev ChuvSU 39 Lipetsk State Pedagogical University LGPU

40 Penza State Technological University PenzSTU

41 Ivanovo State Agricultural Academy named after D.K. Belyaev ISAA 42 Penza State Agrarian University PSAU

43 Private “Southern University" SU

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Questionnaire to evaluate the internationalization of HEIs: breakdown and questions

• 1.1. Number of enrolled full-time (all levels)

• 1.2. Number of academic staff

• 1.3. Number of staff in international office

• 1.4 Do you have strategic internationalization plan?

• 1.5. Do you have legal frameworks to manage international activity?

General Information and internationalization of

management

• 2.1. Number of students (all levels) sent abroad

• 2.2. Top 5 host countries for students

• 2.3. Number of international students (all levels, both degree-seeking and exchange)

• 2.4. Top 5 countries of origin of international students

• 2.5. Do you assist your staff and students in participation in mobility programs?

International Mobility

• 3.1. Number of international teaching staff ( both temporary and permanent)

• 3.2. Number of staff (all categories) sent abroad

• 3.3. Number of international joint/double/multiple degrees programs (All levels)

• 3.4. Do you offer programs in English or other foreign languages?

• 3.5. Do you offer financial incentives for staff to learn foreign languages and to carry out teaching activities in foreign languages?

• 3.6. Do you have strategy and special funding to support international staff recruitment?

• 3.7. Do you have study programs where mobility windows are incorporated into the curriculum?

Internationalization of teaching and academic

programs

• 4.1. Do you have web-site in English

• 4.2. Number of international fairs (education, research, R&D, etc.) where institution has been presented

• 4.3. Number of international partnerships

• 4.4. Number of memberships in international associations and networks

• 4.5. Do you have internal unit / working group to deal with international rankings?

International Impact and Visibility

• 5.1. Number of international research projects

• 5.2. Number of international educational projects

• 5.3. Do you assist your staff in participation in international programs and projects

Research and Education projects

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Analysis of section 1. General Information and internationalization of management

The largest respondent university is Don State Technical University (with 19 967

students enrolled) which has reported 41 International office employees (see Table 1

and Chart 1). On the contrast, the HARMONY project consortium member

universities, for instance Sapienza University (around 105 655 students), or

University of Seville (around 66 603 students) have only 27 and 33 staff in the

international offices. University of Seville has total score of 32 in international

outlook (THEDataPoints n.d.), based on Times Higher Education (THE) data, 7 % of

student cohort is international and is in the group of top 601–800 universities.

Sapienza University has 34.7 international outlook score, 7 % of students are

international and is in the group of 301-350 top universities. On the contrast, the

largest respondent university from the RA, Don State Technical University is not

included in the ranking (are not in top 1000). Among the respondents, Peter the

Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University, with 16600 students and 36 staff in the

international centre is in the same group as University of Seville (601–800) with

20% international students, 48.8 international outlook score. The National Research

Saratov State University, which is another respondent having reported no (0) staff in

the international centre has 29.8 international outlook score and 4% international

students (ranking: 801-1000). It is worth mentioning, that 25 of RF are in the top

1000 universities of THE out of which 8 universities are in top 500 (Times Higher

Education n.d.).

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Table 1. General Information

University Acronym

Number of enrolled full -time students (of all academic cyrcles)

Number of academic staff

Number of staff in the International Office

Student and academic staff ratio

1 DSTU 19967 2089 41 10 2 SPbPU 16600 2920 36 6 3 TSU 16353 899 30 18 4 KubSAU 15600 1500 3 10 5 BSTU 14877 753 14 20 6 NCFU 13117 1244 23 11 7 TSTU 12000 469 5 26 8 OSU 10283 1129 9 9 9 SSU 10082 1021 0 10 10 SSEU 9625 466 5 21 11 VSUT 9350 529 8 18 12 VSTU 9000 950 2 9 13 VolSU 8586 489 5 18 14 NArFU 8047 2500 19 3 15 SRSPU(NPI) 7700 0 5 0 16 DSU 7632 762 7 10 17 NNSTU 6941 1039 6 7 18 RSUE 6674 935 5 7 19 SWSU 6053 631 6 10 20 ASPU 6024 215 1 28 21 TSU 6000 560 5 11 22 NSUEM 5646 430 3 13 23 ASTU 5450 684 8 8 24 VSMA 5261 884 5 6 25 NovSU 4723 657 8 7 26 KSU 4718 561 5 8 27 VSAU 4636 548 9 8 28 DSAU 4571 476 1 10 29 SPbTU 4566 422 7 11 30 KSU 3901 607 5 6 31 ULSPU 3891 364 6 11 32 TSPU 3872 388 5 10 33 BSU 3677 333 2 11 34 IGEU 3625 415 5 9 35 MordGPI 3550 347 0 10 36 PSUAC 3370 300 2 11 37 VSPU 3208 359 3 9 38 ChuvSU 2784 347 0 8 39 LGPU 2472 301 3 8 40 PenzSTU 1829 200 5 9 41 ISAA 1185 127 4 9 42 PSAU 1177 148 2 8 43 SU 686 127 3 5

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Chart 1. Number of staff in the International Office

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Availability of Internationalization Strategic Plan Out of 43 respondents, 31 universities have reported that have internationalization

strategy available (see Chart 2). In the further comments the universities have

mostly mentioned that have the strategic plan incorporated in the General Strategic

Master plan.

Among the universities that have claimed the existence of a separate Strategic Plan

of internationalization are Don State Technical University, Kuban State Agrarian

University after T. Trubilin, Belgorod State Technological University.

Availability of Internal Procedures and Regulations on Management of

International Activities

Among the respondent universities 33 have claimed the existence of a regulatory

framework of Internal Procedures and Regulations on Management of international

activities. Out of 33 universities that have claimed of the existence of certain

regulatory framework, only eight universities have mentioned concrete examples of

regulations, provisions, orders enacted in the universities for managing international

relations. The list of the documents stated by the universities is provided below:

1. Peter the Great Sant Petersburg Polytechnic University

Provision on the Management of the international services,

Job descriptions,

Regulation on academic mobility,

Regulation on international educational programs,

Regulation on financial support for academic mobility.

2. Belgorod State Technological University

Regulation on the structural division,

Regulation on the department for work with foreign students,

Regulation on the department for the development of international activities,

Regulation on the regional resource center of French and German,

Regulation on the interuniversity center for academic mobility

yes

72%

no

28%

Chart 2. Does your HEI have a strategic plan of internationalization? Please, attach

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3. North-Caucasus Federal University

Regulation on the organization of academic mobility in the North Caucasus

Federal University, which regulates the procedure for preparing, coordinating

and financing visits of students, graduate students, and employees to Russian

and foreign educational institutions in order to achieve academic mobility.

Order "On streamlining the exchange of information in the implementation of

international cooperation in the North-Caucasian Federal University, regulating

the procedure of holding events for the reception of foreign partners and

delegations.

4. Tambov State Technical University

Regulation on the organization of international academic mobility

Regulation on the order of sending employees and students of the TSTU on

business trips in and outside the Russian Federation

Regulation on the participation of students in exchange programs and

internships abroad

Regulation on the conclusion and maintenance of international agreements

(contracts, projects, grants);

The order of recognizing the periods of training and the re-registration of

disciplines passed in foreign educational institution

The University has enacted a number of normative acts regulating the activities

of units of the Department for International Relations, the rules for issuing

invitations, incoming and outgoing academic mobility, holding international

events, arranging admission of foreign delegations, stimulating academic

mobility of staff, teachers and students

5. Volga State University of Technology

Regulations on the structures of the International Cooperation Department

(International Programs and Projects Department, Center for Work with

Foreign Students, Sustainable Management and Remote Monitoring Center

(research unit)

Personnel instructions,

Process charts related to the organization of admission of foreign citizens (for

training and short-term visits), sending students and co-workers foreign

business trips, international events on the basis of a university, etc.

6. Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Regulation on the procedure for the admission of foreign delegations, groups,

certain foreign citizens,

Procedure for the admission of foreign citizens to the Northern (Arctic) Federal

University for the purpose of performing scientific and educational activities,

Procedure for recognizing the education received in a foreign state,

Regulation on the international academic mobility of students and other local

normative acts.

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7. Dagestan State University

Procedure for preparing and organizing trips for students, postgraduates,

teachers and researchers to Russian and foreign universities and scientific

centers,

Procedure for inviting experts and specialists from outside organizations and

institutions for participation in the educational and scientific activity.

8. Kursk State University

Provision for the management of international relations,

Provision for the preparatory department for foreign citizens,

Position on the testing center for foreign citizens in the Russian language,

As It is vivid from the list provided above, most of the universities have certain

regulatory framework for managing student, academic and research staff mobility,

but there is lack of concrete examples of managing internationalization of research

and innovation, internationalization on teaching and academic programs (e.g.

regulations on dual and/or joint, multiple degrees) etc. The only exception is Peter

the Great Sant Petersburg Polytechnic University, that has named the “Regulation

on international educational programs”: this might be explained by the large number

of dual degree programs (29 dual degree programs reported) offered by the

university:

Analysis of section 2. International Mobility

Outgoing and incoming student mobility

Chart 4 Illustrates the absolute numbers of incoming and outgoing students in the

respondent universities. Big differences and imbalances are observed among

universities, as well as between the number of incoming and outgoing students.

There are several universities (including DSTU, SPbPU, TSU, BSTU and NCFU),

which could be considered top sending when observing the absolute numbers.

When observing the mobility percentages in the overall student though (See Chart

5.) The list might be amended; in this case the leading institutions in by the

percentage of incoming students are SPbPU (30%), ISAA (25 %), VSMA (16%) and

ASTU (16%).

The percentage of outgoing overall in the respondent universities is quite low: most

of the universities do not step the limit of a one %, with some exceptions of around

2% and only NArFU (4.50%), SPbPU (3.83%) and VSAU (2.48%) have

comparatively bigger statistics.

The list of top five hosting and sending countries are presented below in the Table 2

and Table 3 respectively.

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Chart 4. Student Mobility

Number of incoming students (of all academic cyrcles, including full-degree students and wxchange

students)

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Chart 5. prcentage of international students in the total student number/%/

% incoming students % of outgoing students

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Table 2. Top five host countries by universities

Name of

your

Institution

1 country 2 country 3 country 4 country 5 country

DSTU Czeck Rep. Spain China Germany UK

SPbPU Germany Finland China France South Korea

TSU Belarus Germany Kazakhstan Serbia Italy

KubSAU Czeck Rep. Germany France UK Italy

BSTU Serbia Germany Morocco China France

NCFU Italy Germany Great Britain Switzerland Belarus

TSTU Germany Finland Italy Belarus China

OSU France Belgium Germany Czech Republic China

SSU Germany France Belgium Estonia 0

SSEU Czech Republic Portugal Germany France Finland

VSUT Belarus Germany USA Slovakia Czech Republic

VSTU Germany Hungary 0 0 0

VolSU Germany China Belgium France Spain

NArFU Norway Germany China Finland Sweden

SRSPU(NPI) Germany China Indonesia Israel Iraq

DSU Iran Turkey Italy Germany Egypt

NNSTU Sweden Italy Czech Republic Belarus Estonia

RSUE France Italy Germany Sweden Great Britain

SWSU Germany Bulgaria Hungary Ireland Czech Republic

ASPU China Kazakhstan 0 0 0

TSU Germany France Finland Bulgaria Belgium

NSUEM China South Korea Germany Czech Republic

ASTU Poland France Kazakhstan Azerbaijan Turkey

VSMA Germany 0 0 0 0

NovSU Belarus Poland Germany USA

KSU Bulgaria China Germany Serbia Poland

VSAU Germany Czech Republic Slovakia Belarus China

DSAU Germany 0 0 0 0

SPbTU Germany France Estonia Poland Romania

KSU Germany France China Czech Republic

ULSPU France Kazakhstan Germany 0 0

TSPU China Germany Italy Great Britain France

BSU Poland Bulgaria Germany France Belarus

IGEU France Great Britain Germany Netherlands 0

MordGPI Germany Slovakia Czech Republic USA 0

PSUAC Finland China Sweden Poland Italy

VSPU China Germany Italy France 0

ChuvSU China Germany 0 0 0

LGPU Germany USA 0 0 0

PenzSTU China 0 0 0 0

ISAA Germany 0 0 0 0

PSAU Germany 0 0 0 0

SU 0 0 0 0 0

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Table 3. Top five sending countries by universities

Name of

your

Institution

1 country 2 country 3 country 4 country 5 country

DSTU Ukrain China Palestine Zambia Egypt

SPbPU Germany Finland China France South Korea

TSU Vietnam Turkmenistan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Ukrain

KubSAU Ukrain Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Iraq Turkmenistan

BSTU Egypt Angola Syria Zambia Ghana

NCFU Angola Ukraine Tajikistan Uzbekistan Azerbaijan

TSTU Iraq Zambia Turkmenistan Equatorial

Guinea

Vietnam

OSU India Guinea-

Bissau

Ukraine Turkmenistan Egypt

SSU Turkmenistan Iraq Kazakhstan Turkey Nigeria

SSEU Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Azerbaijan Turkmenistan

VSUT Uzbekistan Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan Turkmenistan Azerbaijan

VSTU Ukraine Iraq Moldova Uzbekistan Tajikistan

VolSU China Ukraine Azerbaijan Tajikistan Germany

NArFU Uzbekistan Норвегия Turkmenistan Germany Finland

SRSPU(NPI) Ukraine Tajikistan Uzbekistan Iraq Lebanon

DSU Azerbaijan Yemen Iraq Turkey Côte d'Ivoire

NNSTU China Tajikistan Kazakhstan Egypt Iraq

RSUE Ukraine Armenia Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Ghana

SWSU Nigeria Ecuador Congo Turkmenistan Ghana

ASPU Kazakhstan 0 0 0 0

TSU Turkmenistan Finland Ukraine Great Britain France, China

NSUEM China Mongolia Kazakhstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan

ASTU Kazakhstan Azerbaijan Turkmenistan Vietnam Ivory Coast

VSMA Индия Vietnam Iraq Uzbekistan Turkmenistan

NovSU Morocco Angola Ghana Tunisia USA

KSU Turkmenistan Ukraine Moldova Iraq China

VSAU Turkmenistan Ukraine Kazakhstan Azerbaijan Uzbekistan

DSAU Ukraine Tajikistan Uzbekistan Абхазия Kazakhstan

SPbTU Kazakhstan Belarus Ukraine Uzbekistan Algeria

KSU Tajikistan Turkmenistan China Germany Czech

Republic

ULSPU Turkmenistan Ukraine China Kazakhstan Azerbaijan

TSPU China Italy Vietnam Turkmenistan Afghanistan

BSU Poland Azerbaijan Belarus Moldova Ukraine

IGEU Turkmenistan Modova Syria Angola Congo

MordGPI Turkmenistan Azerbaijan Ukraine Kazakhstan Belarus

PSUAC Turkmenistan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Moldova Kazakhstan

VSPU Turkmenistan Ukraine China Молдова Iraq

ChuvSU 0 0 0 0 0

LGPU Turkmenistan Mongolia Zambia Congo Yemen

PenzSTU Turkmenistan Tajikistan Egypt Uzbekistan Ukraine

ISAA Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Azerbaijan Cameroon Turkmenistan

PSAU Ukraine Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Armenia

SU Azerbaijan Ukraine Kazakhstan Armenia Belarus

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Methodological assistance to the students and employees

The vast majority of universities questioned (38 out of 43) provide methodological

assistance to the students and employees to participate in academic mobility

programs.

The universities have clearly mentioned number of services and types of support

activities during the mobility, including but not limited to assistance during the

application procedure, visa, orientation meetings, credit transfer, trained support

and monitoring of training in a foreign university, ongoing consultations etc.

yes

88%

no

12%

Chart 6. Do you provide methodological assistance to students and

employees to participate in academic mobility programs? Please,

give a brief description of the ongoing work in this direction

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Analysis section 3. Internationalization of teaching and academic programs

Incoming academic staff

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Chart 7. Number of Incoming faculty

who are employed under formal employment contract in your institution

who temporary visit your institution to carry out teaching activity

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NovSU

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VSPU

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Chart 8. Percentage of Incoming faculty in total faculty

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In case if taking consideration the absolute numbers (Chart 7) of (i) faculty

employed under formal employment contract, as well as (ii) who temporary visit the

respondent institutions to carry out teaching activity, the leading institutions will

be:

Peter the Great Sant Petersburg Polytechnic University: 201 (formal

contract) and 223 (temporary visits),

Voronezh State Agricultural University named after Peter the Great (147 full

time contract, 0 temporary)

Northern (Arctic) Federal University: 130 (formal contract) and

51(temporary visits).

When absolute numbers are benchmarked to the total faculty number, the

percentile is calculated (Chart 8), the reality is changing. In this case the highest

percentage of academic staff with formal employment gains Voronezh State

Agricultural University named after Peter the Great (27 % of faculty is

international with formal contract), followed by TSPU (18%) and TSTU (17%).

As depicted in Chart 7 and Chart 8 significant imbalances are observed among

institutions. There are number of universities having incoming faculty mobility

neither on temporary, nor on the permanent bases. On the contrast, number of

universities have reported more than 15 5of permanent faculty with formal

contract.

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Chart 9. Number of academic staff (of all categories) sent abroad

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Chart 10. Academic stuff (of all categories) sent abroad

(%)

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Chart 9 (absolute numbers) and Chart 10 (percentages) illustrate the numbers of

academic staff sent abroad in all categories.

On the overall contrast of low number of outgoing faculty mobility, three

universities have reported comparatively large number (above 10%) including:

Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (36%)

Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University) (15%),

Novgorod State University after Yaroslav-the-Wise (11%).

Around thirty universities have either very small (below 1 %) or zero % outgouing

faculty mobility.

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Strategy to attract foreign professors

Based on the data provided 44 % of respondent universities declare the existence of

strategy to attract foreign professors and distinguished academic staff, or has separate

funding. The universities have mentioned several external funds (e.g. Fulbright

program) and sources for financing the visit of international academic staff. More

than half of the respondent universities have no strategy to attract foreign

professors, which explains the low number of incoming faculty (Chart 8) in most of

the respondent universities.

yes

44%

no

56%

Chart 11. Does your HEI have a strategy to attract foreign professors and distinguished academic staff or a separate funding?

Please, give a brief description of the ongoing work in this direction.

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System of rewards for teaching in English

Several universities claim of having system of financial rewards of employees who

study and teach foreign languages. The following universities have mentioned

concrete rewards, namely:

1․ Don State Technical University - As part of the implementation of measures

aimed at motivating faculty to actively participate in the implementation of

international activities, a number of criteria and indicators are included in the

"Effective Contract" system. These indicators stimulate the faculty to raise the level

of foreign-language communicative competence for the purpose of developing and

implementing educational programs in a foreign language, participating in

international projects and programs, publishing works in a foreign language.

2. Belgorod State Technological University

The hourly load is paid in double volume,

Free courses for employees and teachers,

3. North-Caucasus Federal University

In direct form, surcharges are not provided, however, in calculating the load

of teachers who provide the educational process in a foreign language, the

university starts from the ratio of 2 hours per hour of classroom load in the

relevant disciplines of the curriculum.

3. Dagestan State University

Employees of the Dagestan State University who teach in foreign languages

are paid 20% bonus, material incentives and quarterly bonuses are also

provided.

4. Voronezh State Medical University named after N.N. Burdenko

Additional points to the rating of the teachers thus increase of salary.

5. Penza State University of Architecture and Construction

Payment of incentive allowances

6. Penza State Technological University

Payment of incentive allowances

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Internationalization of academic programs

Most of the respondent universities didn’t mention concrete numbers of available

programs taught in foreign languages. Out of 43 universities 18 do not provide any

joint/double/multiple degree program and have very much limited number oof

courses taught in foreign languages.

The Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University is leading with the

number and experience of joint/double/multiple degree programs having 29

programs implemented. The Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology

(Technical University) has developed and implemented 9 dual degree programs,

Tver State University – 6 programs, Novgorod State University after Yaroslav-the-

Wise – 6 programs, Kostrom State University – 1program, Belgorod State

Technological University – 4 dual degree programs.

North-Caucasus Federal University implements bilingual educational programs (10

BA and 6 MA), but it was not further defined whether the programs are dual/joint or

not.

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Analysis section 4. International Impact and Visibility

Most of the universities promote the official web site in up to three languages, with

an exception of DSU (6 languages), VolSU (5), OSU (4) and TSTU (4).

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Chart 12. Web-site languages

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The highest participation number in the international fairs have reported the

NNSTU (75) followed by the SPbTU (30), SWSU (21) and DSTU (23) (Chart 13).

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Chart 13. Participation in international fairs

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The highest number of international agreements among the respondent universities

have reported SpbPU and followed by SWSU (Chart 14).

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Chart 14. International agreements

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MordGPI is in a leading position with the number of international associations and

networks followed by DSTU (Chart 15).

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Chart 15. Number of memberships

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Only 15 universities have reported about the existence of a separate

division/working group responsible for the participation in the international

rankings (Chart 16).

Yes

35%

No

65%

Chart 16. Working group for International ranking Does your HEI have a separate division/working group responsible for the

participation on the international rakings?

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Analysis section 5. International research and educational projects

Eleven universities out of 43 have no research project available as of 2015-2016

academic year, while NarFU, on the contrast, stand out with the highest value of 43

research projects. As Chart 17 illustrates, there is significant imbalance not only

among institutions, but also between the research and educational programs.

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Chart 17. Educational vs. research projects

Number of internationaleducational projects

Number of international research

projects

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The last question on methodological assistance to employees for participating in the

international programs and projects received mostly positive responses (Chart 18)

and in the remarks the universities have provided concrete examples of support.

Some examples of the methodological assistance given by the universities are as

follows:

- info sessions

- registration of applications,

- translation of documents into foreign languages,

- negotiation and correspondence with foreign partners,

- visa support,

- execution of contracts and orders,

- assistance in registration of accounting documentation etc.

yes

72%

no

28%

Chart 18. Methodological assistance Do you offer methodical assistance to employees for

participating in the international programs and projects?

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