Instructions following the meeting on developing higher education

The meeting took place on 15 July 2014. Based on its results, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev made the following instructions (19 July 2014 Resolution №DM-P8-5423):

The Ministry of Education and Science (Dmitry Livanov) and the relevant federal executive bodies and organisations shall do the following:

a) draft proposals to establish legal and economic foundations for using online courses in educational programmes;

b) consider the introduction of the intermediate estimate of the knowledge of students undergoing bachelor degree and specialty programmes;

c) conduct a comparative analysis of the conditions of education in government and non-government higher institutions, including taxation, and draft the relevant proposals, if need be.

Report on the results to the Government of the Russian Federation on 1 December 2014.