TOMSK, Apr 11 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State (TGU) and Tomsk Polytechnic (TPU) universities entered top-10 Russian rating of 2016-2017 on quality of English-language content on the websites of universities of the Russian Federation, is reported on the website of Russian International Affairs Council conducted the analysis.
It is specified that the rating was first compiled in 2015. As authors of rating note, "active presence in the English-speaking segment of the Internet" is necessary for the Russian higher education institutions for internationalization and entry into the foreign markets. TSU and TPU from 2013 participate in the project to increase the international competitiveness of universities of the Russian Federation "5-100".
"The purpose of our work consists in showing strong and weaknesses of development of English-language content on electronic resources of the Russian universities. <…> Selection included 47 Russian universities (one university more in comparison with 2015)", – is said in the message.
For assessment of the websites 108 parameters were combined into blocks: data on higher education institution, its history, mission and strategic objectives, possibilities of receipt and educational programs, structure, management and employees, library, science, news, graduates, career, social life of university, its main indicators, information for foreign partners, contacts."The special attention is deserved by positions of educational institutions of Tomsk. (TSU) rose from the 10th place in rating in 2015 to the third place, <…> get 78 points (against 52 points in the 2015th). The university achieved high-quality break in development of the English-speaking website. (TPU) lost the place in rating (the 8th place against the 6th), but gained the bigger number of points (63 against 58), than in 2015", – is noted in the message.
According to the rating, first place is still occupied by Higher School of Economics (92 points), the second – Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (85 points). At the same time a part of leading higher education institutions, including TPU, showed the better result, than some higher education institutions entering TOP 100 of one of the most authoritative world rankings QS.