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RF Education Minister Wants to Draft Students
July 29, Drafting students will not ruin Russia’s science, Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrey Fursenko believes.
“I know people who served in the army during the war, returned and got a Noble Prize after that,” RIA Novosti quotes Fursenko as saying. At present, there’re too many ways to defer from the army. “Just 7 out of 100 call-up age people serve in the army today. Tomorrow it will come down to 1,” – the minister said.
“Each person has the right to education, and it’s in no way connected to the army. The minister may think whatever he wants, but he can neither deprive young people of the right to education, nor the right to live, spokesman of Soldiers’ Mothers Committee Kuznetsova said. Each Russian citizen has a right to choose his way. And yet, if we examined university entrants’ health, the problem would look differently. By statistics, 85% of youth at the age of 16 are rejected for health reasons. At 18 it’s 100%,” – Kuznetsova said.
At the same time, President Putin declared recently that too many Russians get higher education and their number should be reduced, as should be cut down the number of Russia’s universities.
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