Tiraspol, 15 April. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The acting rector and vice rector of Ivan Fedorov Moscow State University of Printing Arts (MSUPA) accompanied by Rossotrudnichestvo representatives to Moldova visited Pridnestrovie, the education ministry's press service reports.
The organisation of entrance exams for Pridnestrovian entrants was discussed at a meeting with the ministry's leadership. «We cooperate with compatriots from other countries and are glad to have come to Pridnestrovie. We are ready to offer Pridnestrovians more than 30 specialities, including the whole contemporary spectre of media sphere and book publishing. On 1 September after our merger with Moscow Machine-building University a new university will appear — Moscow Polytechnical University. Hence, our opportunities for training specialists will extend from humanitarian engineers (a new notion), technological engineers to the science and technology of new materials," said MSUPA's acting rector, Konstantin Antipov.
The guests have announced they are ready to grant 40 bachelors' and 14 masters' scholarships to Pridnestrovians. Today they are planning to meet Pridnestrovian schoolchildren at PSU.
«We support your aspirations for conducting career-guidance work. But also we'd like to outline plans regarding other cooperation issues. Thus, we'd be glad to continue the project for providing Pridnestrovian education facilities with educational books. This academic year with the assistance of the Russian Federation we have managed to deliver 517,200 new textbooks to schools. Bur we are still in need of some textbooks, scientific and methodical literature. Besides, we ask you to assist in raising the proficiency level of our university teachers here because of additional problems we face when going abroad," noted the education minister, Tatyana Tsivinskaya.
MSUPA's leadership has expressed confidence that in the age of distance technologies it is possible to provide an access to many resources to Pridnestrovian teachers, and Russian specialists can also come to Pridnestrovie. «As for learning and teaching base, we may help to establish contacts with the libraries of Russian universities and get in direct contact with the Union of Book Publishers», underscored Konstantin Antipov.
The sides have also discussed the possibility of signing a cooperation agreement.
