"We are launching, together with the Ministry of Education, a cycle of continuous assessment of the heads of all higher educational institutions, including in order to identify the most active ones who will participate in the development of a new state program in the field of science and education," RIA Novosti quotes him. 

Earlier, Chernyshenko instructed the Ministry of Higher Education and Science to introduce the post of vice-rector for digital transformation in Russian universities.

It was also reported that the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, Oleg Smolin, in an interview with the NSN, assessed the consequences of distance learning.