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NEFU entered the top 15 of the ranking of English-language sites of Russian universities

  • 14 June 2018
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NEFU entered the top 15 of the ranking of English-language sites of Russian universities

North-Eastern Federal University improved its position by two points compared to last year and entered the top 15 universities in terms of the quality of the English-language site based on the survey results by the Russian Council on International Affairs (RCIA), according to NEFU Department of Informatization.

This year, experts included 65 Russian universities in the ranking "Electronic Internationalization: English-language Internet Resources of Russian Universities 2017-2018", 18 of which had not participated in the study before. According to the staff of NEFU Department of Informatization, the sites of Russian universities were compared to 11 English-language sites of foreign universities that are in the first hundred of the QS ranking and for which English is not the main language of education. The content of sites was studied on 16 semantic blocks, which correspond to standard sections of university portals.

All the universities that included into the ranking were divided into three groups: leaders, catching up and lagging behind. Each of them was given recommendations on how to develop Internet resources in English, according to NEFU Vice Rector for Informatization Petr Ivanov. "Our university entered the second group, experts recommend paying attention to the sections "Library", "Graduates", "Career", "Educational programs". In particular, it is necessary to include information about training courses in the description of each educational program, as well as to talk about the teaching staff", said the Vice Rector of the federal university.

Experts noted that regional universities have achieved more significant results. They also studied the university pages in social networks and found out that on the one hand, 42 of them (62%) have accounts in Facebook, Vkontakte or Twitter, completely or two thirds, translated into English. On the other hand, most pages are updated infrequently: only 7.7% of universities publish information every day, new posts may not appear on the pages of some universities within a year.

Author: Olga SAVVINOVA, NEFU Newsroom

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