“Paper”: St. Petersburg State University decided to close the Liberal Arts program

The educational program "Free Sciences and Arts" will be closed at St Petersburg University. This is reported by the publication "Paper", citing a source.

The university has stopped enrolling applicants for this program and will instead accept students for the Arts and Humanities course, the source said. Students who have already enrolled in the faculty will continue to take the old program, but faculty suggest that the administration will purge staff and cut some courses.

Earlier, one of the teachers of the faculty, Viktor Mazin, also reported in his telegram that this academic year will be the last in the history of the "Free Sciences and Arts" at St. Petersburg State University.

In late spring, Russian universities began to change the heads of the faculties of liberal sciences and arts, as well as those associated with journalism. For example, Ernest Mackevicius, the host of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, became the head of the media department at the Higher School of Economics , and left the post of dean of the Faculty of Liberal Sciences and Arts at St. Petersburg State University. Alexei Kudrin, chairman of the Accounts Chamber,

It was also reported that the Synergy University closed the Faculty of New Media, and in early spring, Moscow State University abandoned the Political Journalism module at the Faculty of Journalism.