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higher educational management and its most important problems, such as “Current
context of legal coordination of higher educational innovation” by Gonchigdorj,
“Psycho-social basics of education management” by Begz and Badarch, “Innovation
of lecturer and student’s responsibility and rights” by Batrinchin and Baterdene,
“Priority problems of higher education content and technology” by Vanchigsuren,
“New integration model of education and research in field of agriculture” by
Tumurjav, and “Current situation and future trends of Mongolian private HEIs” by
Dashnyam, were published in 1995.
In Mongolia, several academic journals that include peer-reviewed, research-
based, discipline-specific articles, not focused specifically on higher education, are
published every year. In the journals articles on higher education are occasionally
included, except the journal of Medical Education. Innovation in higher education
in Mongolia, led by state-owned universities, particularly the Mongolian University
of Science and Technology (MUST), has resulted in numerous changes in manage-
ment, curriculum development, methods, and evaluation of training in HEIs.
Therefore, the annual academic publications summary of the faculty members and
researchers of the MUST constitutes a reasonable source of information in which to
find research articles that are related to higher education. We currently do not have
a journal that specifically focuses on higher education research; the Mongolian
Association for Higher Education Research is trying to create peer-reviewed scien-
tific journal on it.
The Research Focus of Higher Education
Classification of educational studies, in which educational management, theory and
history, philosophy, and sociology were included, has been approved by the MECS
(MECS, 2010). Since 2014, the ISCED (2013) has been introduced, and research has
been divided into educational studies, education management, education technology,
and didactic methods (MECS, 2014 ). The Mongolian Foundation for Science and
Technology (MFST) was established in 1993 and created a database of Mongolian
researchers’ achievements, dissertations, publications, and articles in science and
technology. By the end of 2014, 5015 scientific publications (including dissertations)
were included in this database (MFST, 2015). Upon reviewing dissertations in the
MFST database using the keywords “higher education” and “higher education
research,” we identified 81 dissertations related to higher education research from a
total of 1742. We divided the research topics and objectives into history, philosophy,
management, curriculum development, methodology, and evaluation of higher
education in Mongolia. Looking at these categories, the majority referred to higher
educational management and administration (24 dissertations) and didactic methods
and technology (24 dissertations), along with some other popular topics, such as
curriculum development (12 dissertations) and training evaluation (10). In catego-
rizing according to professional field, publications related to general higher educa-
tion (36), philology (12), and medical education (11) were common.
N. Sumberzul and S. Oyunbileg