Discussion on universities' accreditation indicators at the All-Russian People’s Front expert council’s meeting

— Today, the university should be considered as a cluster of the post-industrial economy, — said Vladimir Zernov. — Its main features are the results of generating new knowledge, their implementation, the readiness of graduates to use them, create real technologies, the readiness of the scientific and educational community to participate in the creation of new competitive sectors of the economy.

But why are we lagging in the development of innovations today? The USSR possessed one-third of all the world's mission-critical technologies. Now we have only Landau’s theoretical minimum. One of the reasons for the "subsidence" is the income from the intellectual and other property of the university: according to article 284 of the tax code, it cannot exceed 10% of the total income of the university. How can the university develop under such conditions?

Let's take a look at the "Priority — 2030" program. According to a number of its indicators, for example, the number of "budget-funded" students, which should be at least 4,000 people, even global universities from the top part of the ratings do not meet this condition. Out of 50 young universities, only a few of them match these indicators.

We need such accreditation indicators that would correspond to the global trend. Then our education will once again take the place that belonged to it in Soviet times, namely, the status of the world leader.