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The education research conducted by the Institute of Education under the MECS
encompassed a broad area of education management, history, philosophy, sociology,
curriculum, and faculty development and primarily focused on primary and secondary
level education. The Institute of Education has been publishing the peer- reviewed jour-
nal Education since 2002, in a total of 108 volumes. We reviewed 988 research articles
from 99 volumes, of which 109 articles were associated with higher education, includ-
ing 44 on higher educational management and organization, 18 on the history of higher
education in Mongolia, and 16 articles on training evaluation (Table 12.1).
As previously mentioned, the MUST, led by Professor Badarch, was one of the
leading universities in higher education innovation, particularly with regard to intro-
ducing a credit system, curriculum development, and a university management
information system. We revealed that higher education studies conducted in the
MUST primarily addressed the priority issues of university and education manage-
ment and listed these in the annual academic publication summary. Our selected
annual summaries, between 2000 and 2010, listed 1185 publications, of which 62
were on the topic of higher education research.
The journal Lavai is published by the Mongolian National University of
Education (MNUE), which is the only state-owned university in the field of educa-
tion. We reviewed 252 articles, published in 10 volumes of the journal; 16 of these
were related to higher education, and by area of education study, six of them were
on the management of higher education.
The MMEA, led by Professor Lkhagvasuren, was established in 1994 and
encompasses state and private HEIs in the field of health. The Mongolian National

Table 12.1 Publications related to higher education research from the selected database, by their
topics

No

Areas of higher

education study

Dissertation

database at

Mongolian

Foundation

for Science

and

Technology

Journal of

Education

Summary of

academic

publications

at

Mongolian

University

of Science

and

Technology

Journal

of

Lavai

Journal of

Medical

Education Total

1 History 4 18 3 1 – 26

2 Philosophy 4 3 1 – – 8

3 Legislation 2 9 – 2 – 13

4 Management 24 44 33 6 46 153

5 Financing 1 4 2 – – 7

6 Curriculum

development

12 8 8 2 36 66

7 Didactic

methods

24 7 9 2 8 50

8 Evaluation 10 16 6 3 22 57

Total 81 109 62 16 112 380

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