From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/30/2007 3:00 AM
22/07/2007
Chechen youth less interested in study abroad
Caharkala / Agency Caucasus - Subjection to mistreatment, discrimination and attacks is no longer a drive behind the Chechen youth for enrolment at foreign universities. There is an explosion this year in applications to Chechen universities.
Vaha Magomayev, a head official from the Chechen State University, said that there are a large number of student applications this year to the university: “There was not over the recent years such a large number of applications.” Magomayev pointed to plans to allow a total of 2 300 new students to be enrolled in 2007. “Schools of law, economics and medicine are the most popular ones. There seems to be a slight interest among students in agriculture and technique, two areas of significance to the country.”
A statement from Bekhan Hazbulatov, Director of the Chechen State Pedagogy Institute, points out to a similar case: “Most Chechen young people would choose enrolment in colleges or universities abroad between 2003 and 2005. Students are, however, eager to study in Caharkala even if they have the chance of studying abroad.”
A further statement said that most students who went abroad to study chose enrolment at universities in Moscow and North Caucasus, causing other universities a grave failure in their attraction of sufficient number of students.
There is not any official statement or analysis of reasons behind the unwillingness of Chechens not to study abroad. However, a student who managed to enrol at the Chechen State University spoke in words that hinted at the possible reason:
“I did not want to study at a university in a different city, because I feared that my nationality would cause me to suffer from bad treatment over there. I am ready to study at one of the most prestigious universities here. I know people who went abroad and suffered extensive mistreatment because of their nationalities. If I went abroad to study, I would also be exposed to the same kind of treatment.”
A different student spoke of his family as one form of hindrance to his plans of studying abroad: “My family is worried about my security while I am abroad, because there are students I know who experienced difficulties while they studied at Russian universities. They were subjected to frequent abuses with the most likely result of suffering trauma.”
Apart from the State University and the Pedagogy Institute, there is the Oil Institute in Chechnya. In addition, there are branches here of several other universities.
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