Are they going to suspend the emergence of new private universities? Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvinko proposed temporarily suspending the issuance of licenses to new private universities until order is restored in the higher education system. In her opinion, the simple procedure for opening universities led to the appearance of institutions that imitate the educational activity. In Russia there are 1,257 higher education institutions, of which 330 are private, and they make up 11.4% of the 4.6 million students. A member of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, an academician of the Russian Academy of Education Oleg Smulin mentions that the development of the non-state sector happens in periods, but the previous wave of closures was painful. "From 2014 to 2018, the number of state universities decreased by 17%, private universities - by half, branches of state universities - by half, branches of private universities - more than five times. I remember a conversation with Sergey Krabtsov, then he was the head of Rosobrandzur, he said that now it seems to me that we have closed all the universities, but now it seems to me that a bad number of my universities. Usually operating universities fell under the distribution," says an expert and the ombudsman in the field of education, Amet Volodarsky, dividing the private universities into three categories, and only the first is under real control. "Universities that have both a state license and state accreditation are under control. The second type is just a license without certification, and there is complete freedom: no control over the quality of education, no control over the movement of certificates. And the third category, which few know about: organizations that are registered as non-profits, call themselves institutions, but do not receive a license in all of them," he explains. It is the second and third categories that enter the gray area, where the certificate becomes a commodity. We are at MAX | in VK | in OK.

Are they going to suspend the emergence of new private universities? Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvinko proposed temporarily suspending the issuance of licenses to new private universities until order is restored in the higher education system. In her opinion, the simple procedure for opening universities led to the appearance of institutions that imitate the educational activity. In Russia there are 1,257 higher education institutions, of which 330 are private, and they make up 11.4% of the 4.6 million students. A member of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, an academician of the Russian Academy of Education Oleg Smulin mentions that the development of the non-state sector happens in periods, but the previous wave of closures was painful. "From 2014 to 2018, the number of state universities decreased by 17%, private universities - by half, branches of state universities - by half, branches of private universities - more than five times. I remember a conversation with Sergey Krabtsov, then he was the head of Rosobrandzur, he said that now it seems to me that we have closed all the universities, but now it seems to me that a bad number of my universities. Usually operating universities fell under the distribution," says an expert and the ombudsman in the field of education, Amet Volodarsky, dividing the private universities into three categories, and only the first is under real control. "Universities that have both a state license and state accreditation are under control. The second type is just a license without certification, and there is complete freedom: no control over the quality of education, no control over the movement of certificates. And the third category, which few know about: organizations that are registered as non-profits, call themselves institutions, but do not receive a license in all of them," he explains. It is the second and third categories that enter the gray area, where the certificate becomes a commodity. We are at MAX | in VK | in OK.