"Granting autonomy to universities, regardless of the form of ownership, will serve to improve the management models of educational institutions, ensure transparency and efficiency in their activities, increase the level of knowledge, professional knowledge and competencies of our graduates by improving the quality of higher education."

The statement came from education expert Kamran Asadov, Tehsil.biz reports.

According to him, in this regard, it is important to give autonomy to higher education institutions. On the other hand, it will lead to increased accountability:

"Today, there are 51 higher education institutions in Azerbaijan, and most of them are not in the forefront of the world rankings. The main reason for this is low flexibility in the management of higher education institutions, because lack of autonomy creates a number of problems. "Giving autonomy to higher education institutions will also give them the status of a public legal entity. A university with the status of autonomy will also be able to carry out comfortable reforms and integrate into the world. In this regard, higher education institutions must be given autonomy."

The expert said that giving autonomy to higher education institutions will give independence, first of all, to the person in charge:

"For example, in Turkey, a university elects five people as rectors and sends them to the president, and the president appoints one of them as rector. There are many methods, but we will choose the most civilized method and use that rule. Whether that method or another. If the rector is not able to work, the society raises and resolves the issue. I would like to note that the "State Strategy for the Development of Education in the Republic of Azerbaijan" adopted in 2013 provides for administrative, academic, financial and organizational autonomy of educational institutions. He was arrested, "he said.