The phrase "free education" has long beenturned into a humorous expression. In the new socio-economic conditions in which our country has been living since 1991, the right to study exists, but no one guarantees that such services will be provided completely free of charge.
Consider the question of the right to such training in high school.
So, is there a hope for modern high school graduates?
Of course, there is such hope. Many of the graduates of this year and of the following years will study in budget places, receive a long-awaited scholarship. Many, but not all.
After all, a completely free education of the Russian Federationprovided only in schools, and even then there are paid additional educational services. In colleges and universities, it is also possible to study for free, but not all who wish are in such places.
If you have a benefit (you are disabled, orphan, sonor the daughter of Hero of Russia), then you get a university to a budget place easier, but if you do not enter the number of beneficiaries, everything becomes much more complicated, and you act on a common basis.
And to enter a university on a budget place on a general basis is very, very difficult.
But about everything in more detail.
All about budget places in universities
Every year the Ministry of Education determinesthe number of budget places in higher education institutions of our country. As is known, such places suggest that an applicant who enrolls at a university will receive his education completely free of charge (that is, without investing his personal funds in it), and also the state itself will pay him even a small financial incentive (in other words, a scholarship) .
However, if the applicant does not pick upthere are enough points for admission to a budget place, he can study in the paid department, paying each semester a certain fee for his studies at the university (of course, he will not receive any scholarships).
It would seem that budget places in universities - this is the real free education. However, everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance.
After all, then our education system would be just perfect, and this is far from true.
Number of budget places
The number of budget places is calculated by the number of school graduates. It is equal to about half of all eleventh-graders in the country who leave the walls of high school.
At the same time, not every second school graduateas a result, it enters a budget place in a higher educational institution, because, apart from yesterday’s schoolchildren, there are college graduates as well as graduates of past years. As a result, nationwide competition for budget places amounts to an average of 4-5 people per seat. For some specialties, the competition is less; for others, it is many times larger and reaches 20-30 people per budget place.
It all depends on the prestige of a particular specialty.
Therefore, with such “arithmetic”, it becomes much more difficult to get free education at a university.
Number of budget places in full-time and part-time offices
It should be noted that the number of budget places for full-time and part-time offices, as a rule, is different. Higher education institutions distribute more places to full-time departments, fewer places to correspondence departments.
It also happens that correspondence education for free is impossible to obtain at all. There are specialties in universities, but they are fully transferred to a paid basis.
The only thing that can advise the applicantit is to collect as much useful information as possible. Already in spring, the exact number of budget places is always known. All universities have their own sites, where you can always find a page for applicants. The admission plan is always posted on this page.
Отсюда совет – если хотите получить бесплатное education, make every effort to achieve your goal. Find out in advance the number of budget places for a particular educational profile and calculate your strength.
What specialties can you enroll for free?
There is a fairly large number of specialties in universities, which are considered to be non-prestigious, so the competition for them is small.
Trends, of course, change over time, but in general such professions always exist.
For example, in every fifth or sixth majorThe university has a teacher’s specialty, which involves training with the qualification “Russian language teacher”. And there is another department, after graduating which you can get a diploma, not a teacher, but a philologist or journalist. Of course, the last two professions are considered more prestigious, and therefore there is more competition for their budget.
The same can be said for others.professions: zootechnics, a specialist in socio-cultural activities, a librarian and others. Here to enter a budget place for a graduate with an average score of the Unified State Exam will not be difficult at all.
But, for example, becoming a lawyer or an economist for free will be much more difficult. And as an expert in international law - and even more so ...
What is the target location?
However, there is another opportunity to get a higher education for free. It is connected with the receipt of the so-called "target" place.
What is this about?The fact that between the employer of the potential applicant and the university is an agreement according to which the employer pays for the training of a young student, and then he has the right to demand that the specialist should work with him for a certain number of years. Often, such an employer is the state itself represented by ministries and departments that need specialists of a certain kind of training.
For example, doctors are needed for a subject of the federation (theirnow acute shortage). A quota of 30-70 target locations is allocated to this subject. The applicant enters the university and studies on a par with the other students, but after receiving the diploma he is obliged to work for several years in the public medical institutions of the subject, thanks to which he received his target position.
Otherwise, the student is obliged to reimburse the state for its full tuition.
Can I get professional retraining for free?
Some young people who already have a higher education, over time, realize that the profession does not suit them.
But they have already received a higher education onceeducation is free. They have a need to undergo professional retraining with the right to engage in a new type of professional activity.
Is it possible?Yes, it is possible, however, if the budget places in higher educational institutions are still preserved, then additional professional education is offered exclusively as a paid type of educational service. Therefore, such a person, in fact, has two ways to solve his problem.
The first solution: pay for your education yourself.
Second solution: try to get this training paid by the employer.
In fact, there are cases whenemployers are interested in raising the level of professionalism of their employees and even giving them the opportunity to get the right to engage in a new type of professional activity.
This can be used to get a professional retraining diploma for free.
Can I get a second degree without pay?
Unfortunately, according to our education lawcountries can not get a second free education at the university. The state guarantees only one education. Immediately make a reservation that we are not talking about continuing education, for example, in graduate school or graduate school.
But twice to study at the undergraduate degree for free or to stay twice in the magistracy already, alas, will fail. This applies even to those cases when the acquisition of the first higher education was also paid.
Is it possible to transfer from a paid office to a free one?
Многие студенты, которые поступают на платные branches of universities, sparing their material resources, and sometimes simply not having enough of them, tend to transfer from a paid branch to a free one.
Thus, they want to get a higher education for free, just starting not from the 1st year, but a little higher.
Is it possible?
In general, this is possible, but there are certain nuances that you need to know.
Firstly, a budget place can pay studentget only if the university has vacant budget places. Simply put, if one of the state students was deducted. Further, it is necessary that his translation be agreed with the group's curator, the dean of the faculty. Many universities prescribe the rules for transferring from a paid department to a budget, indicating that such a student candidate for a budget place should be an excellent or good student, should show himself at his best, his teachers should respond positively to him, etc.
If you received a secondary education for free, is it possible to enter a university on a budget?
Yes, such a procedure is possible.Secondary special and secondary vocational education will not prevent a young person from continuing his studies at a higher educational institution. Moreover, college graduates today have the opportunity that school graduates are deprived of: they can enroll in universities without the unified state examination, passing only entrance exams.
Moreover, practice shows that such applicants get higher scores on entrance exams than school graduates, so they are more likely to get a budget place.
What can help an applicant to get a budget place?
Well, firstly, good knowledge in the field of those scienceswhich he will have to study. A high USE for a modern school graduate is a “real ticket” not only for a budget place, but also for a prestigious university.
Secondly, the applicant needs to show real wit, carefully study all the specialties offered in universities, find out what the competition is for these specialties, etc.
Thirdly, the applicant must know histhe rights. Now, quite often members of admissions committees refuse to accept documents for budget education due to artificial reasons. This is done in order not to allow “people from the street” to budget training. Therefore, the applicant and his parents must firmly know all their rights and be able to defend them.
Are there any other opportunities to achieve a budget place?
Basically, all the way to the budget place were uslisted above. There are, however, a few more ways. For example, there are free contests of the Ministry of Education. The prize for winning them often becomes the right to a budget place in a particular university. Also, in rare cases, a higher education institution may take a promising student not to a budget place, but to a place that he himself will finance from his own internal funds.
Thus, in general, everything depends on the will of the university leaders themselves and the responsible secretary of the selection committee.
What conclusions can be made?
На основе вышесказанного можно заключить, что get an education for free in modern conditions is possible. However, this requires a lot of effort. It is also necessary to have high performance in school, to be able to navigate the modern labor market, to choose the right specialty and the right university.
In fact, today, despite significantachieving progress, a person who dreams of knowledge and an academic degree, is also difficult to prove his worth, as in the times of M. V. Lomonosov. What the Russian genius did not survive in order to receive the proper degree of education: deprivation, hunger, and cold. Meanwhile, he also studied at public expense, that is, in modern terms, he occupied a budget place.
His example proves that whoever wantsstudy, will be able to get a higher education for free. Therefore, everything is in our hands: our successes, and our failures. You just have to boldly go forward and not be afraid of anything.
