International conference 2024

The first higher education institution in Mongolia – National University of Mongolia was organized its first academic conference in 1944, based on the field research results. Both the field expedition and the conference were the first academic events organized not only at the university, but also in Mongolia. In the first conferences of the university, professors of biology, medicine, mathematics, chemistry and veterinary medicine gave speeches and held discussions. Subsequently, those reports were prepared as scholarly articles and published in the first issue of the Scientific Transactions of the National University of Mongolia.

Over the past 80 years, while educating students in multiple professional fields, the National University of Mongolia have developed simultaneously various fields of research, and a large group of national scientists has been formed. During the development of the National University of Mongolia, other major universities in Mongolia, such as the University of Agriculture, Medical University, University of Science and Technology, and University of Humanities are branched out from it.

As everyone knows, the university plays a significant role in the social and economic development of the country, and after briefly reviewing the progress of higher education in Mongolia, it can be concluded that it has always been dependent on politics. Since the establishment of the first university in Mongolia in 1942, until the 1990s, it has been guided by only government policies and decisions for half a century. However, since the transition of the country to a democratic society with a free market economy, the funding provided by the government has stopped, so the universities in Mongolia have been struggling only to survive. Other than increasing the number of admitted students and financing it through tuition fees, there has been no significant progress in the development of the university over the past 30 years.

It has been more than 80 years since the first university was established in Mongolia, but until now, our universities were not ranked internationally, their activities were old-fashioned, merely based on student training, and they strive to enroll as many students as possible and graduate them in an easy way, which is classroom-based low-cost training.

In Mongolia, there is no wise policy for the sustainable development of higher education, lack of support from the government, insufficient funding and investment, which hinders the further development of the university. Even though, as a result of implementing a rational policy of self-development, the research capacity of some universities has significantly improved in recent years, and the number of internationally recognized researchers has increased.

Nowadays, universities in the world are developing in several different ways in terms of the scope and quality of their research and teaching activities. The research university takes its place at the top of those universities, and its main activity is research and advanced study, which is aimed at creating new scientific knowledge, properly combining student training with research, and educating a creative minded specialist with self-development, transferable and competitive abilities. A university of this nature has not yet been established in Mongolia.

Prestigious and excellent research universities have become the basis for spreading knowledge, creating new knowledge, developing the knowledge economy in the country, and forming the ability to compete globally. Therefore, developed countries as well as underdeveloped countries are competing by putting forward various reform policies and strategies, giving priority to the creation and promotion of new research universities that can compete internatinally.

In order to develop research universities, the governments and policy makers of the countries are implementing various strategies, and if we look at them together, there are three main ones: 1) competitive financing system, 2) international level university policies, and 3) governance reforms and reforms. can be divided into parts.

In order to develop research universities, the governments and countries are implementing various strategies and methods, and there are three main strategies: 1) competitive financing system, 2) policy to develop into internationally recognized university, and 3) university governance reform.