Security Academy Seeks to Admit Students From Ida-Viru
The Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (EASS) is not interested in moving to Ida-Viru County, but seeks to admit students from the region, says Councilor for the Academy Priit Männik. The prospective students, however, are not interested in returning to Ida-Viru.
The academy has been offering preliminary vocational training in two upper secondary schools in the town of Kohtla-Järve. In addition, April 25 was designated the Public Defense Day at the Kohtla-Järve Russian upper secondary school, reported ERR.
The Estonian and Russian upper secondary schools in Kohtla-Järve have been teaching public defense classes for a year now. On the Public Defense Day on April 25, the academy provided information about all its programs. According to Councilor Priit Männik, the EASS sees no need to move to Ida-Viru County, but is interested in students who come from that region.
"We would be very interested in admitting students from there. So we started offering preliminary vocational training at the Järve Gümnaasium and the Järve Russian upper secondary school in order to provide information about our programs and to encourage highly motivated candidates to come and study at the EASS. We are interested in students who come from this region, not in moving. Moving will not give anyone a professional education, quality teaching staff will do that," explained Männik.
Potential students are not keen on the Academy's possible move to Ida-Viru County either.
"I would still rather study in Tallinn, because it is a bigger, developing city that offers more opportunities than we have here," said Valeri Rantalainen who attends the Russian school and would rather not return to Ida-Viru County following his studies.
"I am drawn to the big city. A small town also offers fewer opportunities. If I study at a university in a big city, I can do my practical training there and establish professional contacts. After studying in a big city, it would be boring to return to a small town. I do not want to come back," said another student at the same school, Marina Rõbalova. She considers Narva to be too small as well. Tallinn is drawing young people away from their homes in Ida-Viru County.
Sigrid Maasen