Threat to cull elite Project 5-100 universities blocked

By Brendan O’Malley and Eugene Vorotnikov. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Olga Golodets, has ruled out any imminent adoption of a proposal by the Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva, to remove funding from 15 out of 21 institutions in the Project 5-100 elite universities programme to concentrate on six institutions. More...