TOMSK, Sep 5 – RIA
Tomsk. Foreign students of Tomsk universities bring
about 10 billion rubles a year to the economy of the region, Governor of the
Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin told on Thursday on the TV channel
"Russia-24."
Earlier it was reported that
five years ago the contribution of foreign and non-urban students of Tomsk
universities to the economy of the region amounted to about 7 billion rubles
per year. According to May 2018, the share of foreign students of all forms of
study in Tomsk universities has increased from 5.1% to 18.2% in ten years, at
that time more than 10 thousand people from 68 countries studied in Tomsk. In
2019, 5,650 students became freshman students, 1,579 of them were foreigners.
"Today foreign students
bring from 9 to 10 billion (rubles) for the Tomsk region. Why? It is a fee (for
study), it is grandparents, dad and mom who also come with pies from abroad,
also rent apartments, take them to restaurants", – the governor said.
Zhvachkin specified that the
region plans to attract more foreign students to universities. In particular, a
large inter-university campus with 20,000 seats will be built on the left bank
of the Tom River for this purpose.
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As the press service of the
administration of the region explained RIA Tomsk, in this case it is not only
about revenues of budgets of the city and the region, as the annual spending of
foreign students will include expenses for clothes, food, entertainment,
clothes, housing and study.
Earlier it was reported that
the Tomsk authorities intend to form a world-class scientific and educational
center in the region within the framework of the national project
"Education," which, among other things, will specialize in the export
of education. In total, at least 15 SECs should be established in the Russian
Federation until 2024 on the basis of integration of universities, scientific
organizations and enterprises of the real sector of the economy.
About the
Education national project
Now the Education national
project is implemented in the Russian Federation. Its key purposes are ensuring
global competitiveness of Russian education, inclusion of the Russian
Federation to number of 10 leading countries of the world on quality of the
general education, education of harmoniously developed and socially responsible
personality on the basis of spiritual and moral values of the people of the
Russian Federation, historical and national and cultural traditions.
Includes 10 projects:
"Modern school", "Success of each child", "Support of
the families having children", "Digital educational
environment", "Teacher of the future", "Young
professionals", "New opportunities for everyone", "Social
activity", "Education export" and "Social elevators for
everyone".