The North-Caucasus Federal University, located in the Russian town of Stavropol, has hosted the 3^rd All-Russian Student Forum on the Quality of Education. During the forum, which took place from 17^th-19^th of November, Mongolian student Ts.Lkhagvatsend, from the Russian Peoples' Friendship University won first place at the ‘2016-Student of the Year’ national award competition, in which nearly 200 students from universities across Russia participated.

The forum is a part of a programme for improving the quality of higher-education. Backed by the Russian Federal Ministry of Education, the programme is being coordinated by various higher educational institutions; the Urals Federal University has been involved in the nationwide ranking programme, which was announced this month. The Stavropol forum provided a further platform for discussing issues related to the quality of higher education, problems of the adaptation of students to educational and professional environments, and the development of a model for collaboration between educational institutions.