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Russia's higher education institutions should be optimized - expert.
MOSCOW, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - The results of this year's enrolment campaign proved the need for optimization of Russia's higher education institutions, said Lyubov Glebova, the head of the country's educational watchdog, Rosobrnadzor.
"Today this system is redundant and cannot ensure good enrolment and
graduation," she said.
Glebova noted that "according to the forecast, this year the half of
our state universities' non-budget seats was left vacant."
The government "extended similar funds to the budget-financed seats as
it did last year," she said. "The funds were redistributed in favour of
technical professions and much less funds were injected into economics and
law."
The top educational official added that this year the demand for
technical professions considerably increased.
This year's restrictions exerted a positive effect on the enrolment
campaign. Under the new rules, an enrolee can apply to no more than five
universities and three faculties at once.
"Last year universities complained that children file documents to
hundreds of universities at once, which results in chaos, this year we had
a different experience," she said.
The federal data base of the unified state exam registered over 4,000
violations, when boys and girls applied to more than five universities and
these cases will be inspected, Glebova said.
.Around 150 people remain missing in South Ossetia.
TSKHINVAL, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - Around 150 people are reported
missing in South Ossetia, the republic's ombudsman, David Sanakoyev, said
in a statement issued on the International Day of the Disappeared marked
on August 30.
"Around 150 residents of South Ossetia are considered missing. Of them
140 people disappeared during Georgia's aggression in 1989-1992 and
another seven people in 2008," he said.
"We discuss this problem during the Geneva consultations, the Council
of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, directly
participates in resolving the issue. The International Committee of the
Red Cross also actively works," Sanakoyev said.
In the near future independent experts of the Council of Europe will
deliver a report investigating the cases of those disappeared in South
Ossetia, he said.
.Around 170 tourists, including six Russians, trapped on China island.
BEIJING, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - Over 170 tourists, including six
Russians, were trapped in East China's Zhejiang province as tropical storm
Kompasu approached, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
The tourists, mainly Chinese, arrived on the Nanji Island on a
sightseeing tour on Friday and planned to return to the mainland on the
same day, but ship services were cut off as Kompasu triggered heavy winds
on the sea.
Torrential rains that were brought by the tropical storm moving from
the East China Sea hit practically the whole East China.
Weather forecasters say tropical rains will continue until Friday and
in some regions gust winds will reach up to 32 meters per second and may
bring rainfall of 300 mm.
All ships and fishing boats in the sea off Fujian and Zhejiang have
been advised to take shelter from storms.
.School buildings should remain under Ministry's control - Fursenko.
MOSCOW, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - All school and academic buildings even
those that are not used for intended purposes should remain under control
of the education system, Russian Education and Science Minister Andrei
Fursenko said in an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily published
on Tuesday.
"We need to take into account that the demographic situation in the
country will change," he said. "By 2016-2017 the number of school children
will begin to grow."
"At present, we can use these idle facilities for placing additional
education institutions and full-time schools," he said.
"Until we are "in a demographic pit", we have an opportunity to spend
money not on supporting outdated schools, but on reorganizing the system
and creating a modern school infrastructure that will be able to ensure
normal education conditions for all children," Fursneko said.
"By the way, in regions that took part in the comprehensive projects
on education modernization such schools account for 65-70 percent. One
third of the country's students go to such schools," the minister said.
During this year's inspections over 70,000 fire-fighting security
violations were registered in schools, although practically all schools
are equipped with fire-fighting systems, he said.
"We need to conduct regular fire-fighting trainings of teachers and
students. Unfortunately, we have not a serious attitude to this problem,"
Fursenko said.
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"Today this system is redundant and cannot ensure good enrolment and
graduation," she said.
Glebova noted that "according to the forecast, this year the half of
our state universities' non-budget seats was left vacant."
The government "extended similar funds to the budget-financed seats as
it did last year," she said. "The funds were redistributed in favour of
technical professions and much less funds were injected into economics and
law."
The top educational official added that this year the demand for
technical professions considerably increased.
This year's restrictions exerted a positive effect on the enrolment
campaign. Under the new rules, an enrolee can apply to no more than five
universities and three faculties at once.
"Last year universities complained that children file documents to
hundreds of universities at once, which results in chaos, this year we had
a different experience," she said.
The federal data base of the unified state exam registered over 4,000
violations, when boys and girls applied to more than five universities and
these cases will be inspected, Glebova said.
.Around 150 people remain missing in South Ossetia.
TSKHINVAL, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - Around 150 people are reported
missing in South Ossetia, the republic's ombudsman, David Sanakoyev, said
in a statement issued on the International Day of the Disappeared marked
on August 30.
"Around 150 residents of South Ossetia are considered missing. Of them
140 people disappeared during Georgia's aggression in 1989-1992 and
another seven people in 2008," he said.
"We discuss this problem during the Geneva consultations, the Council
of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, directly
participates in resolving the issue. The International Committee of the
Red Cross also actively works," Sanakoyev said.
In the near future independent experts of the Council of Europe will
deliver a report investigating the cases of those disappeared in South
Ossetia, he said.
.Around 170 tourists, including six Russians, trapped on China island.
BEIJING, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - Over 170 tourists, including six
Russians, were trapped in East China's Zhejiang province as tropical storm
Kompasu approached, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
The tourists, mainly Chinese, arrived on the Nanji Island on a
sightseeing tour on Friday and planned to return to the mainland on the
same day, but ship services were cut off as Kompasu triggered heavy winds
on the sea.
Torrential rains that were brought by the tropical storm moving from
the East China Sea hit practically the whole East China.
Weather forecasters say tropical rains will continue until Friday and
in some regions gust winds will reach up to 32 meters per second and may
bring rainfall of 300 mm.
All ships and fishing boats in the sea off Fujian and Zhejiang have
been advised to take shelter from storms.
.School buildings should remain under Ministry's control - Fursenko.
MOSCOW, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - All school and academic buildings even
those that are not used for intended purposes should remain under control
of the education system, Russian Education and Science Minister Andrei
Fursenko said in an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily published
on Tuesday.
"We need to take into account that the demographic situation in the
country will change," he said. "By 2016-2017 the number of school children
will begin to grow."
"At present, we can use these idle facilities for placing additional
education institutions and full-time schools," he said.
"Until we are "in a demographic pit", we have an opportunity to spend
money not on supporting outdated schools, but on reorganizing the system
and creating a modern school infrastructure that will be able to ensure
normal education conditions for all children," Fursneko said.
"By the way, in regions that took part in the comprehensive projects
on education modernization such schools account for 65-70 percent. One
third of the country's students go to such schools," the minister said.
During this year's inspections over 70,000 fire-fighting security
violations were registered in schools, although practically all schools
are equipped with fire-fighting systems, he said.
"We need to conduct regular fire-fighting trainings of teachers and
students. Unfortunately, we have not a serious attitude to this problem,"
Fursenko said.
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