TSU has become the organizer for the Russian Language Olympiada in Vietnam. Vietnamese graduates who will study in Russia for free are annually selected based on the results. For the first time, the Russian Center for Science and Culture of the city of Hanoi (Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in Vietnam) decided to conduct the Olympiada remotely because of the coronavirus, and TSU was chosen as the partner. Thus, Vietnam held its Olympiada outside of the country for the first time.
Each year, the Russian Federation government allocates 10,000 quotas for international citizens in Russian educational institutions. Vietnam traditionally leads in the number of allocated study places. The recruitment operator for who will study on quotas is Rossotrudnichestvo.
According to the decision of the selection testing working group, which included representatives of 8 leading Russian universities in Russian as a foreign language, in 2020 the Olympiada was held on the platform of Tomsk State University, as the website of the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in Vietnam reports.
180 high school students from Vietnam registered to participate in the Olympiada, of whom 53 reached the final. All of them will receive quotas for study in Russia and will also be able to apply for a Vietnamese scholarship, which covers air travel, medical insurance, and a monthly stipend.
The Olympiada took place in three stages: reading tests and listening tests were checked automatically on the remote testing platform developed by the TSU IT department. At the third stage, three commissions, consisting of teachers of the Faculty of Philology, gave an oral examination in speaking and summed up the results of the Olympiada.