From the 9th of February till the 24th of February 2017 RACUS Organization took part in two international educational fairs which had a great success in South Africa. The international educational fairs were held in the province Guateng, namely in Soweto and in the suburbs of Johannesburg – Aleksandra. These educational fairs attracted plenty of high school seniors interested in getting higher education abroad. Traditionally, the Head of RACUS representative office in South Africa Mr. Kum represented Russian higher education to the guests and participants of the fair, showed videos and informational slides about Russia and Russian state universities entering group of RACUS aimed at promoting Russian higher education in 2017. Mr. Kum told about great variety of specialties (more than 500 medical, engineering and technical, economic and humanitarian specialties) that South African students excited to study in Russia show their interest to. Annual growth of students from South Africa studying at Russian state universities entering group of RACUS serves as the best proof that they had made the right choice. Comments from current students as well as from their parents provide strong support and helps to rise interest towards Russia as a place where to study and to get high quality knowledge and experience in the chosen specialty. During the international educational fairs the employees of RACUS representative office in South Africa told about the application procedures, about all steps in preparation of all documents in order to forward them to one of the chosen by the candidate universities and getting Russian visa for studies. All fair visitors were invited to RACUS representative office in South Africa to get individual consultation and to apply for studies to Russian state universities – members of RACUS group.
