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High Cost of Moscow Diploma
***Third World student* in the former Soviet Union, many of them on meagre scholarship grants, have been hit hard by the changes sweeping the country.
FOR the third straight year Indian student Mltah Mtttra must eke out an existence on the paltry 166 rouble monthly stipend provided by the Soviet government to allow her to study at Moscow's Pushkin Institute
Mtttra is thankful for* the meagre sum. however Many of her feltow students from the Third World could not afford to return to their studies when their subsidies were cut and their tuition bills were sud denly charged in hard currency
Moscow schools and col-legrs have not been immune to the winds of change blowing through the country I'hey have been forced to find free mar ket answers to problems caused by the government's decision to slash funding to the foreign student pro gramme!.
These programmes were original!, devised to reinforce links with Third World and
communist states worldwide. But as the world abandons communism and the Soviet Union tightens Its belt, they have been the first to go
•We've had so many economic problems. said Sergei Ivanovich, vice^itrector of in tcrnattonal relations al Mos cow's Pushkin Institute, renowned for its Russian language programmes.
Ivanovich claimed his school earned one million dollars last year by Its new policy of charging US8435 a month in fees and not accepting rouble payments
The majority of students are now paying hard currency," said Geedika Sharan from Bihar. India, who started her Ph. D. In Russian literature at Moscow State University with the aid of a private sponsor this year. She says she Is one of the lucky ones. There are far fewer students from Third World countries." she adds.
A teacher at Moscow's International Lumumba Univ-
ersity. who asked not to be identified, said her division enrolled 800 students In the last academic year, most of whom came from socialist countries.
Hut this year, the roster showed 125 students only seven of whom attended the
first day of school in late Aietust
Foreign embassies and educational Institutes In Moscow support these figures and conclusions. Cuba sent 2.200
students this year — almost half last yaw's number - to study iq the Soviet Union. ACCorxiiilK tfi g||
al the Cuban embassy tn Moscow
Students from Impoverished Vietnam were hit particularly hard Bam years ago. 800 Vietnamese students attended universities here fewer than 300 are expected thia year, said educational director Chan Van Khung of the Vietnamese
It was a decision on the Soviet side to tower the num bers * said Khuna. whose gov ernment persuaded the Sov lets to keep paying the 180 rouble monthly stipends to Vietnamese undergraduates, though subsidies for poet graduate students have been cut
The winners among the former foreign students In the former Soviet Union arc the former East Germans who. should they wish to continue their studies in Soviet univer
atta-s Instead of transferring to the generously appointed German coltegra can claim full support from their unified government
"No student from the ex German Democratic Republic has to leave because of sup port ' said Enno Barker, press attache for the German em
Deaplte thia offer, fewer than 700 German students opted to study in the former Soviet Unton this year Every one of the Pushkin Institute's 150 East German students on last year's roster failed to turn up for the start of this academic year
The decline and fail of the communiat empire also means that a. Soviet degree Is no longer the job seeking advantage It once was In formerly Sovlet-eontrolled Eastern Europe.
Students find it no longer useful to study here under the changing political conditions." said Barker Some former communist countries like Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria have stopped their student exchange pn>grammes anyway
Ths Pushkin Institute, whose batten Walls and ditidy lit halls are a hangover from the Soviet era. Is one of the
with these tdeok^cal shifts
This year, one of Its three divisions welcomed 56 stu dents from the West and 181 students from other nations compared to last year's 32 westerners and 445 student, from what It then deemed as socialist countries
Victor Nikolaevich Petr enko. director of Russian language programmes for the state department of education, says his department's decline Is the direct result of the changes In former satellite countries, where Russian has definitely become out of fashion
The result is a International surplus of Russian teacher*, which add to the list of qual! fled people seeking teaching jobs tn the West and the hard currency Incomes worth a king's ransom at home. This is where the demand is nowadays." says Petrenko
-(IPS)