Supervisory boards in Russian universities: a development instrument or another tool of state control?

La investigación sobre la gestión en educación superior: Un mapa científico de las publicaciones 2011-2020

“…Clúster 9: gobernanza universitaria y política de educación superior El noveno clúster (en fucsia) comprende una línea de investigación enfocada en la gobernanza universitaria en el marco de las políticas de educación superior, se estructura en torno a los nodos university governance y higher education policy. Se distinguen, entre las publicaciones, al menos tres aristas temáticas: la relación Estado-universidad (Burns, 2020;Gryaznova, 2018;Han y Xu, 2019), la profundización en aspectos particulares de los modelos de gobernanza de educación superior a nivel nacional o regional (Croucher y Woelert, 2016;Donina et al, 2015;Kwiek, 2014) y el rol del estudiantado en la gobernanza universitaria (Carey, 2013;Luescher-Mamashela y Mugume, 2014;Pabian y Minksová, 2011).…”

Governing Universities in Post-Soviet Countries

“…However, the project did not include Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University because of their already granted special status. In total, twenty-nine universities participating in Project 5-100 received targeted funding for increased research output from the government (Gryaznova, 2018).…”

“…One of the features of these universities is the Board of Overseers (Nablyudatelniy Soviet) that operates in addition to the General Conference and Academic Council. The legal status of an autonomous organization was introduced by the federal law "On Autonomous Organizations" (2006) to increase the quality of services of public institutions and the efficiency of public spending through the easing of specific excessive state control mechanisms in the areas of daily financial management, procurement, and budgeting (Gryaznova, 2018). This reduction of the bureaucratic burden was accompanied by the introduction of new forms of University governance, based on more autonomy, involvement of various external stakeholders through involvement in governance, continuous monitoring of the key performance indicators, and competitive financing (Gryaznova, 2018).…”