Russia will send its geniuses abroad

By Maria Snytkova. Modern Russia lacks personnel, and there is no place to create them. The Russian labor market is flooded with poorly educated managers, and professions that require knowledge and responsibility are not popular. In order to encourage potential engineers, doctors and scientists to not work as managers, the authorities decided to pay them to study abroad.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree aimed at strengthening the human resource capacity of the country. To improve the situation with the lack of specialists in such important for any country professions as engineers, doctors, scientists, and so on, it was decided to stimulate Russian students by sending them to graduate schools abroad. Students who earned bachelor's degrees in Russian universities may enter leading universities included in the three world rankings (The Times Higher Education, Shanghai University and Quacquarelli Symonds), and be eligible for financial support from the government. There is only one caveat - after graduation they must go home and find a job. More...