MOSCOW, October 19. /TASS/. A federal program, Global Education, that makes it possible for Russians to receive education at the world’s leading universities free of charge has been presented at the University of Tyumen, Western Siberia, the university’s press service said on Friday.
The Global Education program is being implemented by the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, which was commissioned by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. The program furnishes Russian nationals with a possibility to study at the world’s leading universities free of charge in case after graduation they get a job with a company on a designated list and work with that company for at least three years.
"At a meeting with the rector of the University of Tyumen, Valery Falkov, Global Education graduates employed by the university, their research advisers, laboratory and department heads noted that participation in the program helped promising young specialists realize their research potential. The rector stressed that since the launch of the project the university had been sending its best graduates to study abroad and had been giving jobs to the winners of grants under this program who obtained degrees of the leading universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden," the press service said.
The rector also noted that an association of scholarship holders under federal programs of training abroad had been set up at the University of Tyumen. In his words, the association is seen as a regional platform for experience exchange between graduates from foreign universities.
According to Anna Getmanskaya of the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, the University of Tyumen is now one of the most promising employers for Global Education graduates.
"It demonstrates high standards of work with promising specialists, thus seriously helping achieve the program’s strategic goals," the press service quoted her as saying.