Education in Russia

Every citizenof our country has the right to education. Every boy and girl must get secondary education. Children under the age of three attend nurseries. Children from 3 to 6 attend kindergartens. They go to school at the age of six or seven.

After finishing 9 formsof a secondary school young people can continue their educationin the 10th and the 11th forms or go to colleges, vocational and technical schools. Then they can start working or enter a university, an instituteor an academy.

After finishing the 9th and 11th forms children must pass National Exams to enter a university or a professional college. A student can pass Russian, Mathematics, Foreign Language, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Literature, History, Social Science and Computing Science. Russian and Mathematics are required.

Educational establishments of higher learning train specialists indifferent fields. After 4-5 years of studying students graduate with a Bachelor's degree and then after another 1-2 years they can earn a Master's degree.

Many educational establishments of higher learning have extra-mural departments, distance education and graduate courses which give Master’s, Candidate and Doctorate degrees.

Education in our country is freeat most schools. There are also private primary and secondary schools where students have to pay for their studies. At many colleges, institutes, academies and universities there are also departments where students have to pay for their education. Most of full-time students get scholarships.

Vocabulary

to get secondary education – получать среднее образование

attend – посещать

nurseries – ясли

a kindergarten – детский сад

a vocational school – профессиональное училище

a technical school – техникум

to enter a university – поступать в университет

National Exam – ОГЭ, ЕГЭ

required - обязательный

to train a specialist – обучать специалиста

Bachelor's degree – степень бакалавра

Master's degree – степень магистра

have to pay – должны платить

an extra-mural department – заочное отделение

distance education – дистанционное обучение

graduate courses – магистратура, аспирантура, докторантура

a private school – частная школа

a primary school – начальная школа

to get a scholarship – получать стипендию

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