British campaign Quacquarelli Symonds has published the results of international rating of higher education institutions QS World University Rankings 2016.
First place in the world rating list, as in the past year, received the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The second place goes to Stanford University and the Harvard University. Both are located in the United States.
In the top eight of universities were also includes the University of Cambridge (UK), California Institute of Technology (USA), University of Oxford (UK), University College London (UK) and ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland).
From twelfth to ninth place climbed British Imperial College London, the tenth place was awarded to University of Chicago.
The rating of World University Rankings comes for the twelfth consecutive year and received worldwide recognition as a tool for evaluating the quality of University education.
The rankings developers use some basic criteria of University activity: reputation in the academic environment, citation of scientific publications of University representatives, the ratio of teachers and students, attitudes of employers to graduates, as well as the relative number of foreign teachers and students.
In General the world leaders in terms of University education traditionally remains the American and British educational system, with 30 and 18 representatives in the Top 100 in the world rankings.
There are 33 Chinese University, 22 Russian, 8 Kazakh, 6 Ukrainian and 5 Iranian universities in the list of TOP 800 universities in the world.
Meanwhile, the expert of Asia-Plus on condition of anonymity noted that there is a process of degradation of the universities in Tajikistan in the years of independence.
According to the expert, the teachers of Tajik universities believe that the cause of the degradation of higher education in the Republic is the low salary of the teaching staff.
"Another reason is the wrong personnel policy in universities. The third reason is the inability to attract internationally recognized scholars to the faculty. Also in recent years famous native scientists were not involved teaching", – he concluded.
