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HIGHER EDUCATION
Higher Education has become an integral part of modern life not only in our country but all over the world. Today people place a high value on higher education. Some people are guided by their thirst for knowledge. Higher education for them is an intellectual springboard for the future. They go on for Higher Education to broaden their outlook, to expand their horizons. Others are interested in tertiary education under the impact of their thirst for advance. They understand quite clearly that graduating from one of the higher educational establishments will surely bring them distinct advantages while seeking employment opportunities and social mobility with the society. Unfortunately, there is a good deal of problems the Russian Higher Education faces at present. First and foremost, it is a lack of proper financing. Our government allocates so little money for the development of the system of higher education that more often than not many of our higher educational establishments do not meet the requirements they should meet. And this is not to say that all of them enjoy equal prestige nor that there are no material differences among them. There are publicly and privately funded higher educational establishments. Those, which are financed by the state budget, are generally regarded as quite satisfactory and provide only adequate education. Students attend classes, pass examinations and graduate as merely competent but not outstanding professionals. Very often the quality of teaching faculty and research faculties doesn’t meet the requirements. Besides, the amount of funding available for libraries and special programs is so tiny. There is noting to say about the curricula on this point. The sets of majors provided by our higher educational establishments are limited. They should be revised very often and renewed, but they are not. As a result it leads to “brain drain” of our students and, of course, affects sciences drastically. On the contrary, many of higher educational establishments, funded privately, have gained reputations for offering particularly challenging courses and for providing their students with higher quality of education. They offer the best libraries and facilities for scientific research. Access to a “mainframe” computer and to modern laboratories attracts leading scientists to the faculties of such universities. And students enroll to study with the experts. However, there is the other side of the coin. Not all strata of society are able to afford themselves to attend privately funded universities. The education is very expensive and students study on a fee-paying basis there. They have to pay a tuition fee. Fortunately, still there is an opportunity for the students of low-income families to study free of charge. Our higher educational establishments set quotas of students to be admitted on a free-of-charge basis. So, as the examinations are used as criteria for admissions, only the most talented students can get an opportunity to study on this basis. Of course, I consider it to be quite necessary that some changes of our system of higher education should be done. And the most important requirements Higher Education should meet are the excellent quality and the availability to people of different social positions. Only in this case Higher Education should be regarded as highly appreciated and prestigious.
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