2014 Enrolment Campaign Results Announced

Senior Deputy Head of Internal and HR Policy Dept. of the Belgorod region and BelSU First Vice-Rector answered the questions on the enrolment campaign results at an Interfax press conference.

According to Olga Pavlova, Senior Deputy Head of Internal and HR Policy Department of the Belgorod region, on the most part, the 2014 enrolment campaign plan was fulfilled, though it was considerably challenged by a 7.5% decrease in the number of school leavers, and new rules, introduced by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

All the institutes and universities of the region reduced the enrolment to subject specialisms with majors in Jurisprudence and Economics, and thus completed their obligations under the agreement with the region’s Internal and HR Policy Department. This measure was taken to change the current situation on the labour market where the amount of qualified managers, economists, and lawyers considerably exceeds the demand for.

To fulfil the undertaken obligation, Belgorod National Research University raised the tuition charge, and left the required grade point average unchangedly highthough this year the results the Unified State Exam (the final exam Russian school leavers take) are poorer than the year before.

This year, according to Tatiana Balabanova, BelSU First Vice-Rector, BelSU accepts over 5 000 students (including undergraduate, postgraduate, master’s degree students, interns and residency training students). To 2604 of 5000 students,state-subsidized education will be provided. The most demanded subject specialisms among this year’s applicants were ones with majors in Economics, Jurisprudence, Medicine, and Pedagogy.

Demand on the degrees in Pedagogy also raised among applicants for vocational secondary education.

Olga Pavlovaannounced the plans the region’s Government had elaborated for the coming academic year which include introducing academic programmes matched to the universities’ ones, so that universities could enrol the students that complete professional and vocational education immediately as sophomores.

The journalists also managed to find out more on the issues related to the applicants fr om the Ukraine, who chose to enter universities of the Belgorod region. The most of the applicants were enrolled to Belgorod National Research University, wh ere for Ukrainian students and applicants a 150-place quota had been initially allocated, and then was increased up to 440 places, and was completely filled. Tatiana Balabanova once again drew the attention to the fact that these places were allocated separately from the number state-funded of places for Russian students. Over 100 students from Ukraine already live in the BelSU’s dormitories, though to provide adequate conditions for them, the University will need help of the region’s Government, which has already provided such help to Belgorod State Technological University n.a. V. G. Shukhov. Olga Pavlova says, the help will definitely be provided to BelSU to avoid any reason for social tension.

The newly enrolled students will start moving in the dormitories from the 25th of August 25.