One higher school and 13 higher school branches in Tatarstan ruled inefficient and needing restructuring

Russian Ministry of Education and Science has published the minutes of a meeting on 13 December 2013 held by interagency commission on monitoring the efficiency of higher educational establishments, with appendixes.
The appendixes contain a list of higher educational institutions and their branches requiring, as established by working group's meetings, optimisation; a list of higher schools and branches requiring restructuring; and a list of higher schools and branches on which no approved decision had been made until the commission met on 13 December 2013.
The ministry says on its official site that the meeting ruled to acknowledge 45 higher schools and branches as requiring optimisation, recognise 373 higher schools and branches as inefficient and recommend to the founders to restructure them.
The interagency commission through voting excluded some higher schools from an earlier list of inefficient institutions.
Russian Deputy Education Minister Alexander Klimov said that a wide range of indicators had been analysed within the assessment, including school’s staffing potential, members of faculty’s publishing rates, total scope of research, maintenance infrastructure, and employment of graduates efficiency. Professors’ average salary to region’ average salary ratio was included in the assessment of financial support.
“The overwhelming majority of higher schools acknowledged as inefficient had the average salary lagging substantially behind the regional figure, in some cases being a mere 10-15 percent,” explained A. Klimov.
The faculty members to students ratio was analysed while assessing the staffing potential.
“Some schools turned out to rather issue graduation certificates than train,” said deputy minister. “One professor is in charge of several dozen of students.” The bulk of training at inefficient schools was done by outsourced staff, he added.
The 2013 monitoring included 934 state-run, private, municipal and regional higher educational institutions and 1,478 branches.
Tatarstan’s State Trade and Technology Institute in Naberezhnye Chelny was among those acknowledged as needing optimisation.