Our University

This yeаr I passed my entrance exams successfully and ente­red Ivanovo State University. Our University is quite young. It was organised in 1974 on the basis of Ivanovo Teachers' Training Institute.

Now it has 9 faculties: the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry. They are natural sciences faculties. The Faculty of Economics, History, Philology, the Law faculty, and the Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology and Socio-Psychological Faculty (the humanities facul­ties).

The University has daytime, evening and extra-mural depart­ments, a preparatory department and post-graduate courses. The student body is about 5000 students now.

Our University trains research workers, school teachers and instructors for higher educational establishments and secondary technical school.

At their disposal the students have all kinds of laboratories lecture-rooms, study-rooms, a good library, some reading rooms and gyms. The laboratories are provided with the most up-to-date equip­ment. The students make different experiments there. From the lib­rary the students borrow any book, journal, periodical which they need for their studies.

I am a first-year student at the Faculty of Economics. As I work I take a correspondence course at the University. The programme requirements of an extra-mural education are similar to those for day-time education. But the differences are only in teaching procedure. Extra-mural students do not have regular stu­dies but are provided with all kinds of assistance, such as in­structions, oral and written consultations, not to speak of speci­al lectures.

According to the curriculum of the Faculty an extra-mural stu­dent fulfils a certain number of written assignments in different subjects and does practical work. He must write test works at various times.

Twice a year we have examination sessions. During the session we have practical classes, attend lectures and take tests and exams. To help the students the Dean's office provides consultations for them. We come to the consultation centre where experienced in­structors give us all kinds of consultations.

It is not easy to combine work and studies but much is done by the state to help part-time students. They are granted from 10 to 40 day's leave every year to take examinations and tests and for labora­tory work. Another 30 days are given for state exams. Besides this they get a four months’ paid leave to prepare their diploma work.