Within the framework of the educational tour to the southern cities of India, scheduled to be held in 2016, from 30 April to 1 May 2016 RACUS organization took part in «Times education boutique 2016» international educational exhibition in the international exhibition center in the capital of Tamil Nadu state – Chennai, city with more than 4 million people.
According to the historical traditions that go back to the Soviet Union history southern states of India in particular had traditionally warm attitude towards the Soviet Union and its successor – Russia and maintained strong ties with our country in the industrial, military and educational spheres. This is confirmed once again by the fact that the latest annual international educational exhibition «Times education boutique 2016» had a great success, and the stand of the group of Russian State Universities – RACUS attracted particular attention. Educational exhibition devoted to the various opportunities to obtain higher education is a place of unity of schoolchildren dreaming to get prestigious higher education, their parents, exploring different possibilities for successful future of their child, as well as educational institutions from around the world, offering hundreds of career choices. Yet again the exhibition combined a whole range of opportunities for education, training programs, educational institutions and various courses for the applicants as well as the opportunity to communicate directly with the representatives of various educational institutions, not only in India but also abroad. This educational exhibition is the biggest educational event in India for more than thirteen years in a row. Each year representatives of the Ministry of Education of India, Council of Indian states for senior secondary education, representatives of renowned universities of the country are involved in the opening ceremony, as well as giving lectures and seminars on the basis of this exhibition, which attracts large number of applicants and their parents from all over the country. This is where Indian school graduates learn about Indian and foreign universities that open their doors to them. Higher educational institutions of such countries as Russia, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, the Philippines, Hungary, the United States were represented at the exhibition in 2016 in addition to the local universities.
Quality Russian higher education has been traditionally in a great demand among Indian applicants as evidenced by the great interest to the Russian stand, that represented leading Russian State Universities, members of the RACUS group, which annually participates in various international educational exhibitions in India for popularization of Russian higher education among the local youth. Once again the stand of the group of Russian state universities – RACUS stood out from the others in size and colorful decoration, as well as had the greatest popularity among the visitors of the exhibition – young people and parents. Visitors of the stand of the group of Russian State Universities – RACUS are the representatives of the progressive Indian youth, who would like to get prestigious and affordable higher education to obtain competitive knowledge in one of the universities, members of the RACUS group, which will allow them to be in-demand experts on the labor market of India. Many Indian applicants took advantage of a unique opportunity to obtain necessary information about the admission to higher education institutions, members of the RACUS group, directly from Avbakar Nutsalov, General Director of the RACUS organization, who headed this year's educational tour to India. Despite the fact that «General Medicine» at Tambov State University and Astrakhan State Medical University has been traditionally the most popular specialty among the applicants, this year engineering, computer and aircraft specialties, such as «Computer Science», «Aircraft Engineering», «Organization of flight operations (Pilot)», «Mechanical Engineering», «Oil and Gas Engineering» and others, that are taught at such universities as Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Federal University of North Caucasus, North-Caucasian State University for Mining and Metallurgy, have been in special demand.
More than 6000 people visited the international educational exhibition. All the visitors of the stand of the group of Russian State Universities – RACUS have received souvenirs and colorful brochures, booklets, flyers with information about the opportunities of getting higher education on more than 500 specialties / programs at Russian State Universities, members of the RACUS group, as well as invitations to get individual consultation and apply for studies at the representative office of RACUS organization in India in Chennai.
Participation of RACUS organization and Russian State Universities, members of the RACUS group, in such educational activities contribute to the popularization of Russian higher education in India, maintenance of high intensity of political, cultural and educational cooperation, which is a characteristic feature of Russian-Indian relations, as well as have a positive impact on the development of bilateral relations between the two countries and of the export of educational services.
RACUS organization looks forward to further comprehensive development of the relations between Russia and India and further strengthening of the position of Russian higher education on the education market of India!