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[00:01:57] Hello, this is the Fifth Studio program, my name is Yuri Bogdanov, today we will talk about
[00:02:00] the university admission campaign, our guest is the Minister of Science and Higher Education, Valery Falkov,
[00:02:04] Valery Nikolaevich, hello, good day, the admission campaign is
[00:02:07] in full swing, the first stage priority enrollment, as I understand it,
[00:02:11] ended on August 3rd, how can
[00:02:13] you comment on this stage? Well, 117,000
[00:02:17] people have already been admitted to Russian universities in
[00:02:20] accordance with the admission rules, these are as
[00:02:23] a rule our three main
[00:02:26] quotas, this is a separate quota, a special quota and...
[00:02:30] a targeted quota, and these
[00:02:33] categories of applicants are enrolled in a priority order, as
[00:02:36] for a separate quota, we are talking about participants of the special military operation, about children
[00:02:40] of participants of the special military operation, so this year we allocated
[00:02:42] 56,684 places,
[00:02:45] 41,811 people have already been enrolled
[00:02:48] at the moment, that is, the quota is filled a little more than
[00:02:52] 73%. At the same time, we see that the enrollment process
[00:02:55] for the targeted quota is better, the targeted quota is when...
[00:03:30] That is, these will simply be state-funded places, well, I would put it this way, how it looks in
[00:03:34] practice, it means that a whole range of applicants will have
[00:03:37] an additional opportunity to get a state-funded place, because in accordance with
[00:03:41] the current admission rules, all places that are not
[00:03:44] occupied by the targeted quota are transferred to the main competition, well, and
[00:03:47] accordingly, the number of state-funded places to which applicants are admitted, and tomorrow
[00:03:51] orders will be issued, it will be more by
[00:03:54] 6200 places. There are many questions about priority enrollment, please tell me, are there any
[00:03:58] adjustments planned in this regard?
[00:04:01] Yes, of course, we always very carefully analyze the results of the admission campaign
[00:04:05] every year, each admission campaign in its own way
[00:04:08] has its own peculiarities, so to speak, it is unique in its own way,
[00:04:12] various proposals are already being voiced today, we analyze all this, we look, and
[00:04:16] following the results of admission in September, we traditionally
[00:04:19] hold a big discussion with students,
[00:04:22] applicants, with the professional community,
[00:04:25] parents, and somewhere no later than November 1st,
[00:04:29] our order on the admission rules for the next academic year will be published,
[00:04:33] of course, we will take into account all the peculiarities of this
[00:04:37] year, and rectors participate in this discussion, of course, they
[00:04:40] play one of the key roles. Tomorrow, you said, is the main
[00:04:43] stage of enrollment, what to prepare for, what to expect? Well,
[00:04:46] tomorrow, firstly, this year we
[00:04:50] have a novelty, this year there are so-called days of silence, that is,
[00:04:53] today, when it is no longer possible to change an application, today orders
[00:04:57] are being prepared, and I would like to note
[00:05:12] regarding paid admission, but I would like to say that
[00:05:16] this does not in any way apply to universities
[00:05:20] that provide quality education, because generally this whole measure with
[00:05:23] regulating paid admission is aimed at combating
[00:05:26] low-quality higher education, of which there is still
[00:05:30] quite a lot. In this regard, we have identified 40
[00:05:33] specialties, directions, taking into account market trends, employer
[00:05:37] requests, taking into account our
[00:05:40] discussion with employer associations,
[00:05:43] in a number of universities, as a rule, these are non-core
[00:05:46] universities in relation to certain specialties, I have repeatedly
[00:05:50] named them, these are management, and economics, and
[00:05:53] law, and so on down the list, we
[00:05:56] set a ceiling for paid admission, and in many such universities where there was
[00:05:59] not proper quality, they simply did not allow
[00:06:03] admission to paid places, so the number of state-funded places is
[00:06:07] quite large, but taking into
[00:06:11] account priority enrollment, additional state-funded places
[00:06:14] will appear, we are now waiting for the orders
[00:06:17] themselves, the admission campaign is always a difficult matter,
[00:06:20] therefore, even after enrollment, of course, there are still
[00:06:23] master's and postgraduate studies, and admission to paid
[00:06:27] places, so all this will be completed only by the end of the year.
[00:06:31] What will be the trend with paid places?
[00:06:34] We will again consider paid places taking into account this year's
[00:06:37] admission
[00:06:40] and make a decision taking into account the opinion of employers. of labor, but all
[00:06:43] this will be determined in September-October, and
[00:06:46] we also want to look at the effect following the results of this admission
[00:06:49] campaign. What popular specialties and directions would
[00:06:53] you highlight in this admission campaign?
[00:06:55] Overall, it should be noted that the trend
[00:06:59] of interest of applicants is long-term, we have been
[00:07:02] observing it for 3-4
[00:07:05] years to engineering specialties, specialties in the field
[00:07:08] of information technology, although they have been leading for more than 10 years.
[00:07:12] In recent years, engineering specialties have again come to the fore, as
[00:07:16] well as specialties related to mathematics and natural sciences, in
[00:07:20] this sense, although the
[00:07:22] socio-humanitarian profile still shows a decrease in the number of
[00:07:26] applications due to inertia,
[00:07:29] but nevertheless it is still in the top 10. We have such areas as
[00:07:32] law, economics, they are in the top ten most demanded
[00:07:36] by applicants, but what is important to note is the specificity
[00:07:40] of this year, and... and by the number of
[00:07:44] applications we see that a number of, and this makes us very happy, a
[00:07:47] number of unique specialties, new ones, they
[00:07:50] are leading in terms of the
[00:07:53] number of applications in terms of the growth dynamics of
[00:07:56] such applications from applicants. Which ones, for example? Well, I wanted to list them: this is fundamental
[00:08:00] and applied physics, an absolute leader, the number of
[00:08:03] applications has increased by 2.5 times, well,
[00:08:07] in particular, last year there were 3,380, this year
[00:08:10] 8,648, of course. The number of applications in
[00:08:13] itself is not yet the final determining
[00:08:17] factor that this will be the most
[00:08:20] popular specialty, but nevertheless it speaks to the interest or
[00:08:23] indicates the interest of applicants, which is very important,
[00:08:27] from this such long trends are formed, aircraft and
[00:08:30] helicopter engineering, the number of applications has doubled,
[00:08:33] therefore, and this is a signal for us to allocate
[00:08:36] more state-funded places in subsequent years, technologies for light
[00:08:40] industry products have almost doubled. increased, which is also
[00:08:44] good news, nuclear reactors and materials, I would like to specifically
[00:08:47] mention, I think this is largely connected with artificial intelligence, we have
[00:08:51] such a direction as intellectual systems in the humanitarian
[00:08:54] sphere, 1.8 times, well, and of course, the construction of railways,
[00:08:58] bridges, transport tunnels, also, the number of
[00:09:02] applications will increase by 1.8 times, and urban planning, in
[00:09:05] general, not bad, I would say, trend, that is, in the dispute
[00:09:08] between physicists and lyricists, physicists now prevail, I
[00:09:11] would say.
[00:09:42] How is the admissions campaign going in the universities of the pilot project for the transition to a new
[00:09:46] model of higher education? Yes, thank you for
[00:09:49] this question. We have a pilot project by presidential
[00:09:52] decision, today 11 more universities have been added to
[00:09:55] it, a total of 17 are participating. 6 universities that
[00:09:59] have been confident since 2003 have been admitting only under the new
[00:10:03] rules for all programs since this year. All these
[00:10:05] programs are new, for them this is not the first year,
[00:10:09] so they are no longer... but what is important to note is that for the
[00:10:13] first time we have a fairly large coverage, this is
[00:10:17] 581 educational programs, more than 4000 state-funded
[00:10:20] places, and now we more clearly see the reaction of applicants and
[00:10:24] employers. to what we are doing, including to new programs,
[00:10:28] and well the competitions for new
[00:10:31] programs or for universities participating in pilots
[00:10:34] are off the charts, it is enough to cite the example of our legendary
[00:10:38] MIPT, where the number of applications increased by more than 50%,
[00:10:41] what happened, it would seem, but they abandoned
[00:10:45] old programs, such as short four-year bachelor's degrees, in
[00:10:49] new universities, in 11 universities of the pilot project
[00:10:52] this year they did not accept applications for bachelor's degrees at all. They accepted applications
[00:10:55] for new higher education programs, these are programs, as a rule, from five and above,
[00:10:59] 5, 5, 6 years, such programs allow for the training
[00:11:03] of full-fledged engineers, and they
[00:11:06] have a large practical component, a large
[00:11:09] fundamental component, well, and of course there were
[00:11:12] certain concerns about how applicants,
[00:11:16] employers, and their parents would receive you, well, by the number of
[00:11:20] applications, by the number of average scores, by the competitions, we
[00:11:23] now see that this applies not only to one university. This
[00:11:26] is a similar situation in Bauman, in the Far Eastern Federal
[00:11:30] University, in the Southern, in the Ural Federal
[00:11:33] University, which is huge in terms of admissions. The clearest
[00:11:37] situation, for example, in Bauman, we discussed the admissions
[00:11:40] situation thoroughly yesterday. They still have the old programs,
[00:11:42] four-year ones, and new six-year programs
[00:11:46] for training engineers in the same field, in the same specialty,
[00:11:50] so the competition is significantly different for the new
[00:11:53] programs, huh?
[00:11:55] The competition is much higher and there are more people willing to
[00:11:58] study in these programs, and of course, this is
[00:12:02] a signal for us and for universities that we are moving in
[00:12:06] the right direction, the number of such programs and the number of universities will
[00:12:09] gradually increase, but in the future, of course, we
[00:12:12] will cautiously move the entire higher education system, so to speak, onto new tracks. How does this fundamentally
[00:12:16] differ from specialist degrees?
[00:12:19] Well, there are quite a lot of differences, if you remember,
[00:12:23] there were also complaints about specialist degrees. The main thing I would say
[00:12:27] is that there is much more
[00:12:29] interaction with practice, with business, with industry, something that was always
[00:12:33] lacking, this balance between theoretical knowledge and
[00:12:36] practical skills. Remember, forget everything you were
[00:12:40] taught at university, now we will show you how to actually work. It is
[00:12:43] important that on the one hand, an applicant who comes to university,
[00:12:47] a student who leaves it, is broadly
[00:12:50] educated, higher education implies a certain level of
[00:12:53] culture, breadth of view.
[00:12:55] Not only their profession, but also these important aspects. On the other
[00:12:59] hand, they were well prepared, brilliantly, not only theoretically,
[00:13:03] but also ready to immediately join industrial
[00:13:05] activities and, of course, help the enterprise fulfill the most ambitious
[00:13:09] plans. You mentioned Bauman, I know among
[00:13:12] my acquaintances and relatives, there are those who want to
[00:13:16] enter there, everyone says that in some areas the competition is indeed very high, to the extent
[00:13:20] that people score a large number of points on the Unified State Exam, but nevertheless
[00:13:23] face the fact that they are not always able to get a state-funded
[00:13:26] place, how common is this
[00:13:29] situation? Well, it concerns approximately 10-12
[00:13:33] Russian universities annually, there is a fairly high competition,
[00:13:37] I draw attention to a number of areas, of course, this problem has
[00:13:40] a complex character, among other things, by the way, such
[00:13:44] competition for Bauman is also due to the fact that their material and technical
[00:13:47] base has significantly improved, a new campus,
[00:13:51] a separate long-term development
[00:13:54] program, new partners, and so on. There is no single unique
[00:13:57] measure, or solution. We, for our part,
[00:14:01] annually analyzing such cases, increase state-funded
[00:14:05] places for our leading universities in certain areas. On the other hand,
[00:14:08] universities themselves always work individually, and those students with high
[00:14:11] scores who, for a number of reasons, cannot get state-funded
[00:14:15] places, universities themselves massively provide them with grants, this applies
[00:14:18] to Bauman and Moscow State University,
[00:14:22] St. Petersburg State University, MIPT.
[00:14:26] Higher School of Economics, they have a whole program where they take
[00:14:30] talented applicants at their own expense and educate them, but
[00:14:33] of course, in the upcoming admission campaign, not only
[00:14:37] the admission rules, but also the number of state-funded places, we will adjust these circumstances,
[00:14:41] based on what the distribution of state-funded places occurs, and
[00:14:45] how this will happen in the future, in general it is a very complex and lengthy process, it
[00:14:48] stretches for almost a year, because the work on
[00:14:52] planning state-funded places begins long before... let's say autumn, when
[00:14:55] this will happen, but it is always based on
[00:14:59] the president's instructions in recent years, the distribution of state-funded
[00:15:03] places is based on a long-term and medium-term forecast for the
[00:15:06] labor market, which is prepared by the Ministry of Labor of the Russian
[00:15:09] Federation, and we, taking into account this forecast, taking into account trends,
[00:15:13] taking into account the requests of employer associations, the demographic
[00:15:16] situation, the capabilities of our universities, working closely with
[00:15:20] regions and relevant ministries, annually
[00:15:23] distribute state-funded places, not...
[00:15:37] annually requiring extreme concentration of attention, it is already
[00:15:41] underway and will be completed this year before the new year, including
[00:15:45] a careful analysis, study and consideration, taking into
[00:15:48] account the peculiarities of the current year, of the distribution
[00:15:52] of state-funded places not only by regions, but by specific universities. Do I understand correctly that
[00:15:56] the planning horizon is one year, and a more long-term forecast? No,
[00:16:00] we see the forecast until 2030, and what is happening
[00:16:03] today are forecasts of previous years, but you
[00:16:06] know how life does not stand still,
[00:16:10] new enterprises are opening, changes are occurring in the preferences
[00:16:13] of applicants, including what we observe,
[00:16:17] that in a number of regions today more applicants remain in their
[00:16:20] regions, due to the fact that universities are changing, they are becoming more attractive,
[00:16:23] consequently, there is more demand for state-funded places, because it is no
[00:16:27] secret that very often we encountered what, that in ten,
[00:16:31] in 10-12-15 universities located in Moscow and St. Petersburg
[00:16:35] there is an off-the-charts competition for certain areas. In regional
[00:16:38] universities there are not enough applications
[00:16:41] for state-funded places, this is not normal,
[00:16:44] this should not happen, and accordingly our
[00:16:47] task is not just to allocate state-funded places, but to work with
[00:16:50] universities so that applicants are interested in getting an education
[00:16:54] in their region, in fact, each region is interested
[00:16:58] in this, well, now, probably, there was also a tendency before that people came to
[00:17:02] large cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk,
[00:17:04] Yekaterinburg, but is there now an example? Maybe even
[00:17:08] a tendency for people from large cities to go to
[00:17:11] regional universities to study, you know, it
[00:17:14] has always been this way, and probably will be, large cities are always more attractive, about
[00:17:18] this, there with a
[00:17:21] long history and such a university complex or
[00:17:25] scientific and educational complex, but
[00:17:27] in recent years we see that
[00:17:29] the interregional
[00:17:32] situation with applicants moving from one region to another is
[00:17:36] changing. If earlier the main
[00:17:39] destination was two large agglomerations, then
[00:17:43] now, also using the capabilities of the SuperService "Apply to University
[00:17:47] Online," many applicants see
[00:17:49] the situation, see their chances, and choose
[00:17:52] other good Russian cities for higher
[00:17:56] education, Tomsk, Nizhny
[00:17:59] Novgorod, Khabarovsk,
[00:18:02] Vladivostok, Chelyabinsk,
[00:18:05] Samara, Saratov. and other cities where there are
[00:18:09] excellent universities, I could continue this list, we
[00:18:12] have quite a lot of good regional universities
[00:18:15] where they enroll, today,
[00:18:19] having looked and seen that there are state-funded places, the university is changing,
[00:18:23] of course, the place in the dormitory is very important, as we understand it, the atmosphere there,
[00:18:27] yes, interaction with employers, this is always a crucial life
[00:18:31] decision, entering a university, it determines the trajectory for many
[00:18:34] years to come, so of course it is a responsible decision. So this trend
[00:18:38] has been clearly manifesting itself in the last few years, that is, arrivals not only in Moscow
[00:18:42] and St. Petersburg, but in other large Russian regional
[00:18:46] centers, where there is good higher education. Valery Nikolaevich, thank you for this interview, thank you
[00:18:50] for participating in the Fifth Studio program, for answering questions live. Thank you very much,
[00:18:53] Yuri. Thank you, this was the Fifth Studio program, well, we will continue our information
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[00:26:06] yachts. The structure was designed taking into account the peculiarities of the
[00:26:09] Amur River. Anna Leonova will continue.
[00:26:13] This is how the foundation of a future berth wall leaves the workshop
[00:26:16] at the Khabarovsk shipyard. The shipbuilders are moving
[00:26:19] to the main stage with project R-420. This
[00:26:23] is still the working name of the debarkation points. Models are designed
[00:26:26] for the complex hydrological situation on the Amur. Those
[00:26:29] places where these debarkation points are serviced,
[00:26:33] there is a very harsh wind and wave regime, strong
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[00:26:44] the first order after a three-year downtime from the regional Ministry of Transport, two
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[00:27:03] 60 units are needed, it is clear that this program
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[00:28:08] The plant, in addition to these facilities, also has a large program for
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