The number of budget places in universities is to be increased by 45 thousand in the next two years in Russian Federation. At least 70% of them will be available in the regions that need young specialists. It means that more school graduates in the Vologda Oblast will get an opportunity to pursue their university degree free of charge.
Another vital issue, touched upon in the President’s Address, concerns the increase of university funding by 100 million rubles each year for the creating student technology parks, updating the educational and laboratory infrastructure and teaching programs. Today some Russian universities need financial and technical support to keep up with the rapidly developing technologies.
1 trillion 630 billion rubles will be allocated towards scientific research until the year of 2024 from the federal budget alone.
It is symbolic that all these initiatives were launched in the Year of Science and Technology.