On November 16, 2006, the editorial board of Problems of Education organized a round table, The fate of Universities in Russia.
The following topics were discussed:
1. The diversity of universities. What is a Russian university now: a typology of universities by origin (traditional, technological, pedagogical etc.) by geography (metropolitan vs. provincial — by type of region) by orientation (market-oriented, oriented towards the rent form university status etc.) by education content.
2. What social functions (educational, socializational etc.) are played by universities of different types.
3. The status of research in universities of different types (the problem of preserving scientific schools of thought and of the culture of preserving and transmitting knowledge to the next generation).
4. Tendencies and perspectives of development for universities of different types.