CHOICE OF PROFESSIONAL CAREERS BY STUDENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060019-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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ClASSIFICATIOP; SyCRET _
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORIIOIATION REPORT
COUNTRI' USSR
SUBJECT Choice of F?o^essional Careers by Students
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DATE DISTR. /d lAlq 1954
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T!iIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. This report vrill discuss tho eonditiona influencing students' choices of
careers a::d, in particular, influencing tham to specialise in either
purply s~`..e~at.Pic fields or in praoticaL work.
2. First of all one must keep in mind that the indivldunl has no say as to
his frture in the USSR and if he should get to specialize in afield of
his ov:n choosir. it is simply because his wishes happen to oorreapcnd
~vith t:ie wishes of the govornmont. linen a man ie sent to study in afield
not of his ovm choosing, it does not mesa neneasarily, that he will become
an ine_f:.cient expert. The teaching atatt of ncN higher educational in-
stitution will always try to instill is the student a liking for a par-
ticular pz?ofossion and tY.us some students gill develop an interest in the
given profession. Tt:ose who do not develop this interest, cf courao, will
simply put in t}:eir time on the jo3 and never try to advaneo themselves or
their profession. Occasionally, these "unaueoesstul ones", manage, by some
means or other, to deviate i}om their protession sad bsoome'saleamsn in
stores or oaf eteria or restaurant mana6~-;, etc,
3. Individuals who manage to he aasigaed~to fields which they likes, ?aslly
ht9rtnms =~p8r w auu SC1ent1f10 workers. :heteachinc staff m~in4ly OL'?wI=
"-??s the aai,aiiitiea of the individual student a~ tries to concentrate
attention on the training of the student showfa` the greatest talent,
vrhether it be in scieatifie researeh or in Practical work. These students
are invited to join scieatitio circles, to work on apeciai pro;jeots !4nd to
assist the instructors is their ?cientitio wort. ?he very best graduate
students and a few of the besEproduotian workers are chosen evorv year to
work toward n graduate degree. The nia>ssr et such individuals is very
small -usually from tour tc IO parsons, depandiag oa the institution.
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might get into that typs of work by one of the follmr!ug moans:
(a) Ho may apply for csndi~aoy far an adv~u:red dec;reo by submibtles6
one or several scientific projects 1ti?;,ich he has worked out himself aid
taking an entrance examination in his soHCialty, a foreign iangunge aid
the principles of Marxism and I+oninism.
(b) Ile may engage in research work while ;~: ihH job by joining a
solentifio engineer-technical soaie~y.
5. The morchant snd river i;At; offers gradu::'c courses in the followia~ in+
etitutiones
Tt+e nrct`.:~^.?,~ st~;dents h4io graduate in fields o?~ ?:heir own choosing, are
assigned to production and other places of rmrk and, althougY: the; uenally
havo no choice as to place of work, some of the better students or good
committee Ivor:=ers arH allowed to state their preferonces. If a man ie aa?
signed to produotion work but shows an sotitude for *e~?~~rch work than 1
(a)
Odeasr. c.itute for L`,erc;i~nt Float $gineers
(b)
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