Entrance examinations to higher and secondary vocational schools began in Turkmenistan, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported.

Entrance examinations are held at different times for each region. In each university, they are their own. In total, the campaign for the recruitment of first-year university students will end closer to mid-August.

The first happy owners of freshman status will be applicants who have successfully passed the entrance exams to the Oguzhan University of Engineering and Technology. In this innovative university of the country, the introductory campaign will end even before August. Literally, on the first day of the last summer month, the names of the first-year students of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan will be known. A later, representatives of creative universities - the Turkmen State Institute of Culture, the State Academy of Arts of Turkmenistan and the Turkmen National Conservatory named after Maya Kuliyeva will join the number of happy holders of student cards.

As is known, on the eve of the current entrance campaign, two new universities were established on the basis of the Turkmen State Institute of Transport and Communications and the Institute of Public Utilities - the Institute of Telecommunications and Informatics of Turkmenistan, respectively, as well as the Institute of Engineering, Technical and Transport Communications of Turkmenistan. Also, the National Institute of Sport and Tourism of Turkmenistan, which is now called the Turkmen State Institute of Physical Culture and Sports, has changed its status. The direction of training highly qualified specialists for the tourism industry now operates in the Turkmen State Institute of Culture.

In the current introductory campaign in the higher educational institutions of the country, the number of potential first-year students increased by 33 specialization vectors. Recruitment to new areas of training, including goes to the Turkmen National Institute of World Languages ​​named after D. Azadi, the Turkmen State Institute of Economics and Management, the Turkmen State Institute of Finance, the Turkmen Agricultural Institute, the State Energy Institute of Turkmenistan, the Turkmen State Institute of Culture, Engineering and Technology University n/a Oguzhan.

Moreover, new specialties appeared in the curriculum of the Oguzhan ETU. This is applied mathematics and computer science; cellular and molecular biology; genetics and bioengineering; chemical engineering; digital economy; digital infrastructure and cybersecurity; mobile and network engineering; animation and graphic design; innovative economy; personnel Management; physics of modern technology.

The second place in terms of the number of new areas of training is the Institute of Telecommunications and Informatics of Turkmenistan, where for the first time the recruitment into the following specialties has begun: information systems and technologies; software engineering; computer software; Applied Informatics; business Informatics; Information Security; industrial electronics; electronic security systems.

Quite a lot of volunteers to gain and qualification of a specialist of an average link. Everywhere in our country operates a wide network of secondary vocational schools. These include, among others, specialized or vocational schools of financial and economic, banking, construction, medical, and pedagogical profiles. Educational institutions that train middle-level cadres for the sphere of culture and the arts, the oil and gas industry, energy, trade, the agricultural sector of the national economy, publishing, the tourism industry, and maritime and railway transport are popular among young people. Intense competition among applicants wishing to join the ranks of aviation personnel who are trained in the school at the Agency "Turkmenhowayollary".

On the basis of these educational institutions, yesterday's senior schoolchildren of general education schools acquire the knowledge and skills of the cherished professions that are in demand in various areas of our country's life. According to statistics, many of the graduates of secondary specialized or vocational schools in the future decide to continue their education in the next stage, enrolling in higher education institutions.

In the country as a whole, the introductory campaign in secondary and higher vocational schools will last until the end of the second decade of August.