Three University of Yaroslavl region were unable to agree – REGNUM

Yaroslavl, December 2, 2015, 01:05 – REGNUM In a briefing for media representatives, Deputy Governor of the Yaroslavl region, Eduard Lysenko said that the regional government has received an official letter from the rectors of the Yaroslavl State University named after PG Demidov Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University and Yaroslavl State Technical University. By consensus the heads of regional universities did not come – no one expressed a desire to volunteer to join the other universities. Thus, it is unlikely that by December 18, the Ministry of Education of the Yaroslavl region received an application for the creation of a multidisciplinary project contest the federal higher education.

Eduard Lysenko said that the need to provide support in the region, the University is. The region is experiencing a shortage of qualified engineering and scientific and technical personnel. Supporting the university will have an extended database, which will move to a new standard of quality of higher education. Funding for this institution will be carried out not only from the federal and regional budgets. Ready to co-finance and regional business.

«The history of higher education last 20-30 years is that higher education is not subject to the regional authorities. The regional authority is not authorized to regulate what is taught in higher education. This has led to the separation of the needs of local industry and businesses of the educational process at universities. That is why the Ministry of Education and Science provides for the direct participation of regional authorities in the implementation of the project to create a reference institution. Participation is not only co-financing, but also in the direct order of education “, – said Edward Lysenko.

According to the deputy governor, the most important factor determining the success of the reform is” a conscious need for change “, which should appears within each science-teaching staff. So Edward Lysenko urged the media not to make hasty conclusions from the current situation, but rather to help organize a broad discussion.

According to plans of the Ministry of Education, the step of creating regional support universities should end in 2020.

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