Internationalization of Russian Higher Education: Current Trends and Global Challenges .

1. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education: Current Trends and Global Challenges . Viktor Koksharov, Rector of Ural Federal University

2. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education... www.urfu.ru TRENDS: GLOBAL • Massification (growth of tertiary student enrollment)

3. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education... www.urfu.ru TRENDS: GLOBAL • Globalization (increasing number of international students) • 463% growth over 39years 30% growth in 5 years 2014 4.6M 2009 3.4M 2000 1.9M 1995 1.7M 1990 1.3M 1985 1.1M 1980 1.1M 1975 0.8M Up to 8 mln. international students in 2020

4. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education... www.urfu.ru TRENDS: GLOBAL • Commercialization(changes in the role and functions of the university: University as a Corporation) • Two models: • University as a corporation, producing curricula for the students (student-oriented approaches) • University as a company, producing graduates for the employers (employer-oriented approaches) Thus, higher education is getting more and more mass, commercial and globalized activity. Our societies need criteria for differentiations between elite and mass education.

5. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education... www.urfu.ru What is World Class University (WCL)? According to: Nian Cai Liu et al., Paths to a World-Class University. Lessons from Practices and Experiences, Sense: Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei, 2011, p. x.

6. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education... www.urfu.ru THE ROLE OF THE RANKINGS IN WCU FORMATION • IDP (China) research on the most important reasons of the students choice of the university (2012): • Internationalreputation/ranking (33%) • International recognition bypotential employers (21%) • Attractivecourse structure/content (14,9%) Thus, rankings play increasingly important role in the WCU formation through attractingtalents and the resources to the top-ranked institutions of higher education

7. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education... www.urfu.ru TRENDS: RUSSIA • Russian Federation closely follows these trends in: • creatingranks of National, Federal, and National Research Universities • launching 5-100-2020 programme(programme of enhancing competitiveness of Russian universities) • Identifying some strategic priorities of Russian Higher Education system, the main of which is its integration in Global Academia THUS, INTERNATIONALIZATION IS THE MAIN CURRENT PRIORITY OF RUSSIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

8. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education... www.urfu.ru RANKINGS: RUSSIA AND KAZAKHSTAN

9. Internationalization of Russian Higher Education... www.urfu.ru SOME CONCLUSIONS • Thus: • The two Kazakh universities demonstrate better rankings dynamics than any of Russian universities • The main reason is that they started internationalization process earlier than Russian universities, which relied too much upon their traditional strength • Internationalization, then, is a key word of the successful strategy for becoming the world class university • Successful internationalization strategy of any Russian university must be oriented both tothe west and to the east: to the US and Western Europe and to the countries of former Soviet Union, SOC, BRICS and South East Asia

10. INTERNATIONALIZATION IN RUSSIA... www.urfu.ru SOME CONCLUSIONS • Internationalization should include, among other things, creating vibrant international environment inside the university through broad international recruiting of both students and professors • One of the best ways to begin such process is to start network collaboration with certain target partners. That is why UrFU, for example, actively participate in the networks of CIS, SOC, BRICS and Arctic universitiesas well as in the Sino-Russian Association of Technical Universities. • On the basis of these conslusionsUrFU elaborated a Road Map of Enhancing Global Competitiveness. • The main idea: concentration of the resources on the support of the centres of excellence.

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