Some Russian universities to close

By Alexander Kilyakov. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced his support for a plan to improve the quality of education in Russia at the expense of quantity.
A considerable number of academic institutions that do not meet up-to-date criteria should be converted or closed, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a recent meeting of the open government panel on education.
“It is my deepest belief,” he added.
The idea that education should be done by fewer, but better, institutions was proposed by President Vladimir Putin during his term as prime minister, but Medvedev’s words indicate that the project of educational reform will continue to move forward.