«In RUDN students get very high-quality education», - Minister of Education of Burundi
During the visit, high-ranking representatives of the Republic of Burundi held talks with RUDN Rector Vladimir Filippov, and also met with students from Burundi of Moscow universities. The delegation expressed its readiness to develop cooperation with RUDN University.
«In RUDN, our students get very high-quality education. We would like to sign a memorandum of cooperation with our leading university. We are interested in increasing academic exchange of students and academics. Also we have many people who want to learn Russian - maybe we will be able to open the Center for the Study of Russian in Burundi», the Minister said.
The parties noted mutual interest in training professionals in engineering, agrarian, socio-humanitarian and medical specialties. Special attention is paid to geology, veterinary medicine, agronomy, pharmacy and international relations. A preliminary agreement on joint preparation of a working program of cooperation with the leading university of Burundi for 3 years was reached, experts working out concrete proposals for cooperation.
«PFUR is a comprehensive university with a large campus and a developed system of work with foreigners. It is easy for students to support each other in studies, after class and in everyday life,» said Vladimir Filippov, RUDN Rector.
All in all RUDN has trained 77 professionals for the Republic of Burundi, one third of which (26 people) are engineers. Currently, 16 citizens of this country are studying at the university, and the student association is headed by Edmond Nzoikorera, Master student majoring in mathematics. It is expected that in the next year at least 40 students from Burundi will come to Russia.
RUDN University is the only university that represented Russia at the international educational exhibition “EDUGATE 2023” in Egypt, which brought together 90 leading universities from 12 countries from Algeria and Morocco to the USA and Germany.
In August, a delegation from Ghana met with the Russian Union of Potato and Vegetable Producers, an industrial partner of RUDN University. Representatives of the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly (Ghana), led by the mayor of Accra, visited the agricultural company “Virgin Alliance” in the Tula region. The excursion was organized by the Agricultural and Technological Institute of RUDN University.
While someone is on summer holidays, RUDN students of economics keep studying. They went to hot Zambia at the invitation of the Graduate School of Business of the University of Zambia for two weeks of the summer school “Russia-Zambia: Economic Opportunities and Prospects”.