A thousand students went to the rally in Tambov

Students of the Tambov State Technical University held a procession and a rally against the unification of their university and the Tambov State University named after Derzhavin. This was reported in his blog by the State Duma deputy from "Fair Russia" Dmitry Gudkov.

The action was agreed by the authorities. More than a thousand people came to the rally, Gudkov writes. According to police, the number of participants was about 800 people.

“For a long time I have not seen such living students. The city was really put on their ears,” Gudkov wrote. “At the rally, he met“ large people ”from the regional administration who did not expect so many protesters.” The deputy promised on Tuesday to write a request to the Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov about the situation around the merger of two Tambov universities.

Students' promotion is the result of manipulation, Livanov believes. "Students in Tambov are manipulated: reduction of scholarships, the number of budget places, there will be no reduction in the number of teachers and places in hostels," he wrote on Twitter. Livanov considers university unification “democratic” on the grounds that it occurred on the basis of decisions of scientific councils of both universities and the petition of the head of the region.

On September 18, Livanov signed a decree on the accession of TSTU to TSU, the New Tambov said earlier. According to the document, a technical university should become a structural unit of TSU. This was done in the framework of the reform of the higher education system.

The Ministry of Education and Science plans to tighten the requirements for higher education, said Deputy Minister Alexander Klimov in August. He believes that statelit in the field of education should provide students' rights to receive a quality education. The Ministry of Education and Science intends to collect data on the activities of state universities for their further reorganization. Experts must evaluate educational, research, international and financial and economic activities, as well as the availability of infrastructure of educational institutions.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev considers an excessive number of higher educational institutions in Russia. He made his statement at the end of July at a meeting of the open government, where the bill on education and the state program "Development of education" for 2013-2020 was discussed. “It is obvious that the total number of universities surpasses all the reasonable framework,” he said. “Carthage should be destroyed, a significant part of the universities that do not meet modern criteria should be re -profiled or closed.”

The number of students studying at the expense of the state should be halved. This was stated in May the day before appointing the Minister of Education and Science of Livanov. "As soon as we get away from universal free higher education, there will be mechanisms that will help to attract valuable personnel to enterprises," Livanov said then.