On May 11, the chairwoman of the State Duma’s family affairs committee, Nina Ostanina, submitted to the lower house of parliament a draft law on the right to enroll fighters in Ukraine in educational institutions higher without entrance examination. However, as the Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education told Russian media, measures allowing veterans of the military operation to enter universities on preferential terms are already in place in Russia.
Oleksandr Mazhuga, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education
“At the moment, we have already implemented such a standard. In accordance with the Education Law, veterans have the opportunity to enter higher educational institutions within the framework of a special quota, if this is the first higher education. To obtain a veteran’s certificate, a participant in a special operation must contact the military registration and enlistment office. This procedure has been worked out, we have consulted the Ministry of Defense and everything is now working very well.
Also, with this document, a participant in a special operation goes to a higher educational institution, submits documents, registers outside the open competition.
We analyzed the admission campaign last year, when such an opportunity already existed, and we saw that, for example, if the quota for certain areas was 20 people, generally 10% of the total number of enrollment targets in direction and specialty, so there was interest, but no more than two or three people per university.
Time will tell (if there will be demand). The main thing is that now there is such an opportunity, it existed before. The higher education institution is responsible for the quality of education, it already depends on how the higher education institution implements its educational programs and the intensity of the student’s demand . It does not depend on how a person acts, but on how the learning process takes place.
Ksenia Goryacheva, First Deputy Chair of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education
“We have already drafted a bill offering SVO participants a special format for admission: it does not require applicants to pass the Unified State Exam, but provides for the passing of internal university exams.
Getting educated and fulfilling oneself professionally is an important step in socializing and returning to a peaceful life. It is our duty to provide NWO participants with such an opportunity. However, doing this without any entrance exam may even be harmful, not beneficial.
During the preparation, the future student understands what disciplines he will study, what knowledge he will acquire, learn more about the profession. Preparing for admission and passing entrance exams is also a test of motivation, including for oneself. If you do away with entrance exams altogether, you risk having demotivated students who don’t understand what kind of profession they are getting. And that means either losing a student while still studying or, if he can complete his studies, having an unprepared employee.
In my opinion, of course, it is important to provide additional benefits for admission to SVO participants. However, do not oversimplify the procedure.
Earlier, Deputy of the State Duma, head of the Committee on Family, Women and Children, Nina Ostanina said that she had prepared a bill providing for the possibility for participants in the operation special to enter secondary and higher educational institutions without entrance examination, only on the basis of the results of the interview. Such a benefit, as designed by lawmakers, should be valid for three years from the date of demobilization of SVO members. The specialties and fields to which the program will apply must be approved by the government.
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