RUDN Mission

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia is an international classical university whose mission is:

· in uniting the knowledge of people of different nationalities, races and religions;

· in the training of priority-demanded specialists in various fields of human activity;

· in the formation of individuals who are patriots of their countries and friends of Russia, involved in the achievements of world culture, carrying the ideals of humanism, democracy and friendship of peoples;

· in educating young people who are able to work successfully in any country in the world and demonstrate their creative potential in the context of the interconnection of civilizations and the diversity of modern society.

Hymn

RUSSIAN PEOPLES' FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY

“I LOVE RUDN University”

(Words by A.P. Vikhryan; Music by G.N. Trofimova)

I love RUDN, this is a difficult word...

But the hardest thing for me is to forget him!

I'll go around the whole world - I won't find another,

So that memory can replace it.

I love RUDN University for the melodiousness of its adverbs,

For the mosaic of faces and his kindness.

And because he values ​​deeds more than speech,

All peoples of the Earth making their dream come true

I love RUDN University!

I love you RUDN!

Oui je t"aime RUDN!

I love RUDN University for its cheerful character,

For student laughter in the corridors of relatives.

RUDN University divides everyone into “sisters” and “brothers”,

Without dividing anyone into “us” and “strangers”.

I love RUDN University for its love of change,

For the classic style and the boldness of ideas

I firmly believe that he will be permanent

The master of fate in the lives of many people!

What is RUDN University?

Peoples' Friendship University was founded on February 5, 1960 by the decision of the USSR Government. On February 22, 1961, the University was named after Patrice Lumumba, one of the symbols of the struggle of the African peoples for independence. The first rector of the University was Sergei Vasilievich Rumyantsev, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor. With his direct participation, the University was organized, to which S.V. Rumyantsev led from 1960 to 1970.

Classes at the preparatory faculty for teaching foreign students the Russian language began in 1960, and at the six main faculties of the University (engineering, historical and philological, medical, agricultural, physical, mathematical and natural sciences, economics and law) - on September 1, 1961. In 1964, the University was admitted to membership in the International Association of Universities (IAU).

In 1965, the first 228 young specialists from 47 countries graduated. In those same years, international construction teams (ICSO) began to be created, KVN teams appeared, from which the RUDN University KVN team, famous throughout the country, was born. In 1966, construction began on a new educational complex of the University in the South-West of Moscow. The second rector of the University was Vladimir Frantsevich Stanis, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Economic Sciences, professor, who proclaimed the “cult of knowledge” at the University. He led the University from 1970 to 1993. UDN is becoming a major world-famous educational and scientific center. By 1975, the University had trained about 5,600 specialists, including 4,250 graduates from 89 foreign countries. Same year

The university was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples for its services in training specialists for the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

On February 5, 1992, by decision of the Russian Government, the University was renamed the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. The founder of RUDN University is the Government of the Russian Federation.

From 1993 to 1998, the rector of RUDN was Vladimir Mikhailovich Filippov, a graduate of the RUDN named after. Patrice Lumumba 1973. From 1998 to 2004, he worked as the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation as part of four Governments of the Russian Federation, and in 2004-2005 - Assistant to the Chairman of the Russian Government on Education and Culture. At this time, first as acting rector (1998-2004), and from 2004 to 2005 - rector of the University

was Dmitry Petrovich Bilibin, a graduate of the UDN named after. Patrice Lumumba 1966, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor.

March 4, 2005 V.M. Filippov was again elected rector and remains so to the present day. V.M. Filippov – Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, professor, academician, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Education.

In the 1990s, new faculties were opened: environmental, economic, legal, philological, humanities and social sciences, advanced training for teachers of Russian as a foreign language, advanced training for medical workers and educational institutes: foreign languages, world economics and business, distance education, hotel business and tourism, gravity and cosmology, systems of pre-university and additional professional education were created.

In 2000, the University opened a Department of Comparative Educational Policy, which has the status of a UNESCO Department.

In 2006, the 50,000th RUDN diploma was awarded. It was awarded to engineering graduate Jose Atiencia Villagomez (Ecuador).

Currently, the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia is one of the most famous centers of higher education in the world. This is the only university on the planet where students from 140 countries study annually. RUDN has a multidisciplinary structure of faculties and specialties, characteristic of the world's leading classical universities. More than 70,000 thousand of its graduates, over 5,200 candidates and doctors of science work in more than 170 countries. Training of specialists is carried out in 62 areas and specialties. Currently, RUDN University has about 27,000 students, graduate students, residents and interns, representatives of over 450 peoples and nationalities.

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia is a major scientific center. The University has a team of 4,500 employees, including 2,826 highly qualified teachers. Of these, about 600 are professors and doctors of science, over 1,300 associate professors and candidates of science. Among the teachers are 16 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other Russian state academies, 52 members of public academies, 50 Honored Scientists of the Russian Federation, 116 Honorary Workers of Higher Education in Russia.

26 RUDN University teachers are full members of foreign academies and scientific societies. Over 500 RUDN employees are inventors and innovators. The intellectual fund of the university consists of descriptions of inventions for more than 870 copyright certificates and 150 patents of the Russian Federation in almost all areas of scientific activity of the University.

Many foreign and Russian political and public figures, outstanding scientists became Honorary Doctors of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Among them are the presidents of Angola, Gabon, Namibia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Guyana; Prime Ministers of Bangladesh, Kazakhstan; Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Director of the European Center for Higher Education (CEPES).

The university has extensive and strong international connections both with individual foreign universities and with international organizations. RUDN University is a member of the International Association of Universities, a member of the Eurasian Association of Universities, has more than 160 cooperation agreements with foreign universities and research centers, cooperates with the International Organization of Francophonie, the Association of Universities of European Capitals, and the European Association of International Education. Takes part in programs and forums of the UN, UNESCO, Council of Europe and other international and intergovernmental organizations. He is one of the founders of the Cooperation Network of Universities in Europe and Central Asia, the Academic Network of Universities in Eastern and Southern Europe, takes part in the activities of the organization of universities in the Black Sea countries, and is a participant in the Salzburg seminars (Austria) for higher education workers.

Over the course of 50 years, the University has gained worldwide fame and gained well-deserved prestige as a major educational and research center, occupying a place among the top five Russian universities for many years.
University Management

The main law of life at RUDN University is its Charter, according to which the "Inner order rules". The highest legislative body of RUDN University is the general conference of the teaching staff, staff and students of RUDN University. The rest of the time, decisions are made Academic Council, whose members are elected by secret ballot at the above-mentioned conference. The Academic Council includes representatives of all major scientific, pedagogical, and administrative departments of the university. It is headed by the Rector of the University. At monthly meetings, the Academic Council resolves the main issues of educational, scientific and educational processes, economic and social development of RUDN University. The University is directly managed by Rector. The general management of faculties is carried out by their Academic Councils, headed by deans, who are entrusted with direct management. The management of departments (the main educational and scientific structural divisions of the University) is carried out by the heads of departments.

University managment

Rector– Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Vladimir

Mikhailovich Filippov. Main building, room 2-1, tel. 434-70-27. [email protected]

First Vice-Rector- Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs – professor, doctor

physical and mathematical sciences Alexander Petrovich Efremov. Main building,

Rector's wing, room 402, tel. 434-66-82.

Vice-Rector for Student Affairs- Gladush Alexander Dmitrievich – candidate of technical sciences, associate professor. St. Miklouho-Maklaya, 6 (main building), educational sector, room 201, tel.: 433-7363, e-mail: [email protected]

First Vice-Rector- Vice-Rector for Economic Activities – Doctor of Economic Sciences Evgeniy Leonidovich Shchesnyak. Main building, right wing, room 203, tel. 433-73-68.

Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs– Professor, Doctor of Philosophy

Nur Serikovich Kirabaev. Building on the street Ordzhonikidze, 3, room 105, tel. 952-52-26.

Main building, rector's office wing, room 402, tel. 434-66-82.

Vice-Rector for International Affairs – Professor, Doctor of Philosophy

Gulnara Amangeldinovna Krasnova. Building of natural and humanities faculties

room 112, tel. 434-70-16.

Vice-rector for further education – Candidate of Chemical Sciences Angela Viktorovna Dolzhikova.

Main building, rector's office wing, room 502, tel. 434-66-41.

Vice-Rector for Public Relations– Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences

Elena Viktorovna Martynenko. Main building, right wing, room 200, tel. 787-38-27.

Vice-Rector for Administrative and Economic Activities–

Gennady Alekseevich Ermolaev.4th building, room 356, tel. 433-02-09.

Vice-Rector for Personnel and Documentation Activities– Irina Petrovna Gerasimova. Main building, rector's office wing, room 101, tel. 434-53-00

Vice-Rector for Commercial Activities - Nazyuta Sergey Viktorovich – St. Miklouho-Maklaya, 6, (main building), room 11, tel.: 434-6635, 438-8301.

Rector's Assistant– Pavel Alexandrovich Smirnov. Main building, rector's office wing,

room 401, tel. 434-70-18.

Assistant to the Rector for Security– Alexander Alekseevich Karpov.

Main building, right wing, room 315.

INTERNAL RULES (EXCERPT)

Adopted at a university-wide conference of representatives of the teaching staff, staff and students at the University.

This is discussed by the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation in 1998-2004, Chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science, Rector of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education Vladimir Filippov.

Screen instead of professor

Yulia Borta, AiF: - Vladimir Mikhailovich, leading universities have begun to abandon regular lectures in favor of online courses via the Internet. But we have been fighting for many years with ineffective universities and branches that teach everything in absentia, but in reality nothing... Won’t the same thing happen?

Vladimir Filippov: — In the digital economy, there is no escape from the use of information technology in education. There are disciplines whose translation into digital opens up more opportunities for self-education. For example, courses on the history of Russia and philosophy can be supplemented with video materials about each historical figure, philosopher, films about them, watch them right away, and much more. It is impossible to give so much in a lecture. But online courses cannot completely replace regular classroom lectures and seminars. The Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” states that education is a purposeful process of upbringing and training. Moreover, education comes first. It is impossible to educate a physician or a teacher without personal contact between the teacher and the student. Director of the Kurchatov Institute Professor Mikhail Kovalchuk He told me that even the upbringing of a physicist and an engineer in spirit is completely different.

We must avoid extremes. In the Soviet Union, when they began to introduce technical teaching aids, the following joke appeared. A teacher once comes to students and says: “Well, why am I reading you the same thing year after year? I tape-recorded the entire lecture.” Turned it on and left. And when I returned 1.5 hours later, not a single student was in the classroom, and there were voice recorders lying around the tape recorder.

— Let’s say a professor has recorded an online course on his subject, students can watch it in absentia, neither the first nor the second appear at the university. Everyone is comfortable, but how to ensure quality?

— Recently he performed with us Philip Altbach, one of the world's leading experts in the field of higher education, e-learning technologies, global universities, etc. So, when he was asked to tell about one online university in the USA, where 300 thousand students studied, he admitted that this business project had failed. They wanted to make money through mass participation, but were unable to ensure the quality of training (and today the employer looks at the specialist’s competencies, and not at his “crusts”), discredited themselves and were forced to sell the business to another company that provides semi-distance learning. As a result, only 70 thousand students remained.

A professor at the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (one of the best universities in the world, always among the top three in the most prestigious rankings - Ed.), speaking recently at RUDN University, noted: an online course pays off if at least 10 thousand people have signed up for it. We are happy if at least a thousand have signed up for our online courses. But the main thing is that in order to work with these 10 thousand students remotely (answer questions, check assignments, etc.), he has to maintain a staff of 8 assistants plus a professor. Only for one discipline.

If we want to fight deception and corruption, we need to develop a campaign, set a task for all teachers in the country to wean them off cheating, and provide for serious punishment.

— It turns out that high-quality online courses can only be paid?

- At this stage - yes. However, over time, universities, as part of the creation of network universities, will agree among themselves that they will offer their courses to their students for free. Moreover, the idea of ​​open educational resources (OpenEducational Resources - OER) is now being promoted in the West. Its main ideologist is sir Daniel,former Deputy Director General of UNESCO, the creator of the world's first Open University of Great Britain (Open University of Great Britain), in which 200 thousand students around the world studied remotely 20 years ago. The meaning of the OER idea is this: to agree with the governments of different countries that if a professor or school teacher, working in a government institution, creates an electronic educational resource for budget money, then he is obliged to place it in the public domain for everyone. This would create a database of teaching resources from teachers all over the world. But, unfortunately, the copyright problem has not yet been fully resolved.

— It’s similar to the Moscow Electronic School, where teachers post lesson scripts.

- Yes, the principle is the same.

“Several years ago, the country was rocked by scandals related to written-off dissertations—first one politician or official would find them, then another... Now there’s silence. Has everyone become honest?

— We continue to check everyone who defended their defense after 2011 - unfortunately, after 10 years it is no longer possible to deprive them of their scientific title. For the entire 5.5 years that I have been working as chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission, every month we have been depriving 5-10 people of their doctorate or candidate of science degrees. Just last September, at the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission on the Humanities, 12 people immediately lost their degrees or were refused to confer them. Currently, three university rectors are facing deprivation of their academic degrees. Many have become seriously afraid of submitting false dissertations. In 2013, it was decided to publish in the public domain on the website of the Higher Attestation Commission for a period of 10 years the names of not only those who were deprived of their degrees, but also their scientific supervisors, opponents, and the leading organization. So now people began to complain that they could not find opponents, the leading organization. Nobody wants to be blacklisted for 10 years.

Why are our universities now losing in world rankings? One of the main evaluation criteria is the level of scientific research. In England and the USA, all leading scientific laboratories (even the top-secret Los Alamos, where nuclear development is carried out!) are included in the structure of universities.

But the problem needs to be solved more broadly. Here are the graduate students telling us: it’s interesting that in the master’s program you could copy out coursework, but in graduate school you couldn’t copy a dissertation. Why? Then we come to the master’s students and convince them: it’s impossible, we will pass your master’s dissertations for anti-plagiarism. And they answer us: I wonder why it was possible to cheat in a bachelor’s degree, but not in a master’s degree? And so back to the 1st grade of school. Unfortunately, our school spirit is such that if you are an excellent student and don’t let someone cheat, then you are a “bad person.” And your own friends shame you.

Once I was invited to a TV show dedicated to the problem of cheating on the Unified State Exam. So there is a graduate of RUDN University, famous singer Pierre Narcisse, me, the current Minister of Education, was firmly attached. He said then: “You know, in Cameroon, if someone who cheats is caught at the Unified State Examination (an analogue of the French state examination system), then both dad and mom are disgraced on national TV for the whole country to see.” This is where Cameroon is, and where Russia is. But there, from the 1st grade, they are brought up in such a way that it is absolutely forbidden to cheat. And foreign students, coming to our university, are initially surprised: how can you even cheat? But this is the case when they learn very quickly. Therefore, if we want to fight deception and corruption, we need to develop a campaign, set a task for all teachers in the country to wean them from cheating, and provide for serious punishment. It’s too late to do this in the 2nd or 3rd year of university.

— They announced that the program to support universities to enter the leading world rankings will continue. What benefit does this have for us?

- We now live in such an open information world that we are forced to compare - what is better, what is worse. Which school should I go to, which university? And it’s one thing to listen to the opinions of friends or neighbors. And it’s completely different when someone has already compared educational institutions and ranked them according to external criteria. And being in the rankings, the university attracts more good students, and therefore more finance.

There are now 23 thousand universities in the world. But the ratings include only 600, that is, less than 4%. And of course, dissatisfaction in the world with such ratings is growing. Everyone offers to create their own. It's like in football. We don’t know how to play, so should we come up with our own rules? Let's give the football players sticks, then maybe they will start winning something. Why are our universities now losing in world rankings? One of the main evaluation criteria is the level of scientific research. In England and the USA, all leading scientific laboratories (even the top-secret Los Alamos, where nuclear development is carried out!) are included in the structure of universities. And all scientific discoveries and publications go to these universities. Moreover, in the West, large universities have 50-100 thousand students. And in our largest Moscow State University there are only 45 thousand. In Russia, all kinds of sectoral research institutes, which have always traditionally been engaged in science, are separated from universities - medical, food, transport, etc. This system needs to be changed.

By 2020, at least 5 Russian universities should be in the top 100 of the world rankings (so far only Moscow State University is there - Ed.). Currently, 21 universities are participating in the project and receiving government support. It is proposed to expand the program by including the best industry institutes and select those universities that actually have science.

Brain Hunt

— A professor at one of the leading universities told me that after the 2nd or 3rd year our students begin to lose greatly to Western ones. Why is that?

— The situation is ambiguous. Now all developed countries are striving to develop STEM education. These are the initial letters of the English words "science - technology - engineering - mathematics" (science - technology - engineering - mathematics). Subjects at school and university programs are selected based on this approach. Americans, French, Germans, everyone wants to be progressive in STEM. They understand that without this they can fall behind in the economy, weapons, etc. Russia still holds good positions here in mathematics, but in engineering it lags significantly behind. Because the technologies that remained from the times of the Soviet Union have also lagged behind. I remember when to the former Minister of Education Andrey Alexandrovich Fursenko(now an assistant to the President of the Russian Federation - Ed.) pestered with the question of why we produce bad engineers, he replied: “Our graduate engineers are no worse than our cars.”

Why are we losing quality of education in senior years and master's programs? We demand less independence and creativity from students. It’s like this: if a student listened to 17 lectures in a semester, studied, came to the exam and passed these lectures, then he gets an “A”. In principle, this cannot happen in Western universities. Lectures are a tenth of what you had to master yourself. And even to get a “C” you have to work hard and study a lot on your own. With us, all students know that if they attended lectures, they will definitely get a “C” and be given a diploma. Well, plus the fact that practice is rather weak. Previously, state-owned enterprises were required to accept students for internships. Now private business does not want to do this and waste time on training them.

“Now the scholarships are such that you can’t live on them. Young people from poor families in the regions are deprived of the opportunity to receive high-quality higher education in capital cities.

— When we introduced the Unified State Exam, we thought from the point of view of the Ministry of Education: to set up a mechanism so that children from remote regions could enter the best metropolitan universities without leaving their regions, and could apply to several universities at once. This problem has been solved. The next problem arose - providing financial support for these students so that they could live in big cities. In Western universities, 90% of students live outside the dormitory. They rent housing. We do not yet have a market for available housing or it is expensive. Therefore, the problem of building dormitories is acute.

How is the problem solved in many countries around the world? Construction of large campuses where various universities and dormitories are located. For example, in each regional city, you can unite all “local” universities (everywhere there is a pedagogical institute, medical, technical, etc., and each has its own department of philosophy, chemistry, etc.) into one large university, build a huge campus outside the city for them. Moreover, this could be a business project, because the buildings, as a rule, are good, which they currently occupy in the city center, can be given to an investor. But, unfortunately, the issue of interdepartmental interaction has not been resolved. Departments do not want to give up their universities. This parochialism really hinders our progress in the rankings and solving the housing problem.

But, by the way, now many leading universities, in order to attract the best students, are introducing additional scholarships at their own expense. For example, at RUDN it is 15 thousand rubles.

— The new national project “Education” has a goal to increase by 2-3 times the number of foreign students in Russian universities in the next 6-7 years. And 5% of them will be employed in Russian companies. Do we have extra jobs that we can’t offer to our own?

- I'll start from afar. We criticize Marxism-Leninism. But we must remember that Marx And Lenin were economists. And Lenin predicted two things that have already come true. The first is that in Europe the process of erasing borders, creating a single currency and the formation of a new structure, the United States of Europe (essentially the current EU), is inevitable. Secondly, in the struggle between capitalism and socialism, the one with higher labor productivity will win. And it is connected with competition. If you work poorly, they will replace you with someone else. And under socialism we had a principle: everyone should have a job, be registered somewhere. There should be no unemployment in the Soviet Union. But a certain percentage of unemployment is necessary; this stimulates people to self-education and development. Who has won? Capitalism. The collapse was based primarily on the economic crisis. The Soviet Union lost the economic competition.

Of course, the state should not abandon people who have lost in the competition for jobs in the capital. Create other opportunities. Let's say you don't want to be an unemployed homeless person - here's a hectare in the Far East, go and work.

Among our graduates there are more than one hundred thousand foreigners. And among them there were probably talented physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. And where are they now? In France and Germany, Italy - now entire associations of RUDN graduates have been created there, despite the fact that we have never had students from these countries. They did not return to their place in Africa! And we ended up feeding the West with Russian money, because Russia and the Soviet Union did not create conditions for them to work here and use their talents for the benefit of our country. A lot needs to be done in this direction, starting with the perception of society that, say, an African doctor or teacher can work next to you.

— What professions will be in greatest demand in the future? Programmers?

— I don’t think that “pure” programmers will be in greater demand than others. There will be a greater need for professionals who are proficient in information technology, each in their own profession. For example, a doctor, a teacher, a chemist, an engineer who understands information technology and knows how to apply it.

Former Minister of Education Vladimir Filippov. “I would like to inform both the Minister of Education and everyone present that I have just signed an order regarding the Higher Attestation Commission on the appointment of Vladimir Filippov as chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission,” Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting on the implementation of obligations related to increasing teachers’ salaries. Medvedev emphasized that Filippov, now the rector of RUDN University, worked as a minister and is an experienced person. “I hope that he will be able, being as careful as possible in his duties, to pay attention to the very procedure for awarding academic degrees and titles in our country, because there are problems with this,” the prime minister said. “It’s not even a matter of personal problems, but simply systemic problems.”

The post of chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission was vacated last week when the former head of the commission, Felix Shamkhalov.

The arrest of Shamkhalov, who became chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission in August 2012, surprisingly coincided with a major scandal - the discovery of a process that had been put on stream in the dissertation council on history of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. The attention of the public and the Ministry of Education and Science was drawn to the activities of this dissertation council after the defense of a candidate's dissertation in it by the former chairman of the student union.

Currently he is the rector of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN). He returned to this position in 2005 after working from 1998 to 2004 as the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation - before working in the government, he was also the rector of RUDN, he was first elected to this post in 1993.

Vladimir Filippov publicly discussed his tasks in his new post on Friday, when officially he was still only deputy chairman of the Supreme Attestation Commission. So, Filippov, as well as the number of universities that can train graduate students. , the rector of RUDN University stated that he “would not completely place the blame” only on the expert council and commission.

“Of course, revisions are planned for the future not only with journals, not only with the network of dissertation councils, but work was also planned to revise all the expert councils themselves.

And it’s very good that this can now be done more systematically, on some new principles, with an assessment of the work of the members of the expert councils themselves, with their publications, and so on,” Filippov said.

The most important task that Filippov is called upon to solve is the reorganization of the system of certification of scientific personnel. Dmitry Medvedev spoke about this task on Tuesday, and the day before, the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov.

“It is fundamentally important for us to take the certification system (of scientific personnel) to a new level,” the minister said, noting that the system is currently devalued.

The scientific community generally agrees with the assessment, noting that the problem lies with the system itself, not with its leader. “There have always been problems at the Higher Attestation Commission, this has nothing to do with this or that leader,” RAS academician, director of the Institute of High Pressure Physics, told Gazeta.Ru. — What can we talk about if all our “bosses” have Ph.D. theses? Of course, the problems relate more to the social sciences.

It's no secret that quite a lot of people now write dissertations for money. They translate something from English, and then it’s not clear how to “catch” them.

But I do not rule out that similar things exist in the natural sciences; in society, the demands are somewhat falling.”

“The Higher Attestation Commission has and had systemic problems, because the principles of certification migrated to us from Soviet times, when there was a Higher Attestation Committee, which was part of the government with the rights of a ministry (that is, it was not a commission for anything), - Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. — In the West, as we know, there is a different system, and it varies from country to country. In the Anglo-Saxon system, where universities are strong, certification and thesis defense are directly tied to the activities of a particular university. That is, when they say that a scientist has a Ph.D., they necessarily add the name of the university, and this degree has value only in the context of the importance and authority of the university... Of course, the human factor is essential, but the whole matter does not come down to it alone . Although, of course, it’s sad to see when problems arise around the certification system, around the Higher Attestation Commission (where I myself once worked, I know many people) that are unworthy of it.”

“The appointment is not without reason; Filippov is an experienced person. Another question is that in the best of times, the chairmen of the Higher Attestation Commission (and then, under the USSR, it was called the Higher Attestation Committee) were well-known, major scientists with a worldwide reputation.

In this case, this is not so, says Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education (RAO). “But Filippov is an experienced person who has already shown his attitude towards fake dissertations.

The appointment may be correct for other reasons: he is a tough person, and if he sets out to establish the system, then in this capacity he may do well. At least I would like to hope so.”

The main result of Vladimir Filippov’s activities as Minister of Education is the development and adoption in 2002 concept of modernization of Russian education for the period until 2010. This concept, in particular, discussed the development of a system of specialized training, state standards of general education and the introduction of a unified state exam (USE).

Three years after the adoption of this concept, in 2005, as a result of the reorganization of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education and Science was created, headed by Andrei Fursenko, and during his work at the Ministry of Education and Science, all these issues moved from the planning stage to implementation stage, received mixed assessments from the scientific and educational communities.

“Filippov became the minister of education in the government immediately after the financial crisis in 1998,” recalls Alexander Abramov. — One of his first initiatives, the transition to 12-year education, caused a storm of criticism, in the end everyone forgot about it, and thank God. In 2001, the concept of modernization of education in the Russian Federation appeared. At the initial stage, the main ideas of this concept were as follows: quality, efficiency and accessibility. Everyone liked it, but then no one imagined that all this would take extreme forms. The concept of modernizing education was adopted towards the end of Filippov’s tenure as minister, and in this sense, history repeats itself: after all, education standards were adopted in 2012, at the end of his tenure as head of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Fursenko eventually pushed through these innovations. But the start of this modernization was given during the time of Filippov.”

One of the first socially significant actions that will take place at the Higher Attestation Commission should be the deprivation of the degrees of those involved in the case of “fake dissertations” defended in the dissertation council on history at Moscow State Pedagogical University. The day before, the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission held a meeting, following which it recommended that the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission deprive 10 people of their degrees, including Andriyanov. The Higher Attestation Commission told Gazeta.Ru that presidium meetings “take place on Fridays,” therefore, the final deprivation of the scientific degrees of those involved in the case of “fake dissertations” should occur on February 15. “This is an abscess that can be easily cut out, but the question is that we need to treat the disease that gives rise to the abscess, and not solve this problem in a separate ‘surgical’ way,” says Filippov.