New Study Abroad Program Aims to Give Russia a Boost in the Global Market

Moscow University

Moscow State University, Russia

Set to launch later this year, the Russian government’s newest higher ed idea is Global Education, a program that will sponsor 3,000 graduates to study abroad over the next three years in the “high priority” fields of social services, high technology, state and municipal government, and higher education management. In return, the students promise to work at home for three years after completing their studies. The idea is to invest in the future: these students will bring back from abroad new ideas for development and modernization, better equipping Russia to compete in the global market.

According to Alexander Rusinov, who will help implement the program, “The only effective way to attract a big number of highly qualified specialists to Russia in the next three years is to finance their studies.”

But the Global Education program has skeptics who fear corruption in the program and a lack of return on this investment, which sends money out of the country.

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Written by Ling Shu