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The “Professionality” project was launched in 2022 to synchronize the personnel needs of enterprises with the capabilities of the secondary vocational education system. Since 2025, it has been implemented within the framework of the national project “Youth and Children”.
The average competition for one budget place in professional colleges and technical schools has reached almost 5 people, which indicates the demand for the project among young people, said the head of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kravtsov.
“Professionality” is the driving force for the development of the secondary vocational education system, which is confirmed by the results of the current year’s admissions campaign: more than a third of applications to vocational education institutions were submitted to its programs. The average competition for one budget place reached 4.9 people, which indicates the demand for the project among young people,” said Kravtsov, as quoted by the department’s press service.
He noted that the project meets the needs of the Russian economy. Strengthening the interaction of colleges with employers brings results: partner enterprises receive motivated and well-prepared students who are ready to immediately enter production.
The admission campaign to colleges and technical schools started on June 20 and lasted until August 15. If there are free places in educational organizations, the acceptance of applications is extended until November 25.
The federal project "Professionalism" was launched in 2022 and is aimed at synchronizing the personnel needs of enterprises with the capabilities of the secondary vocational education system. Since 2025, it has been implemented as part of the national project “Youth and Children”.
Since 2022, clusters of secondary vocational education have been formed annually within the framework of “Professionality”. In 2026, 95 clusters will be created, with more than 3.15 thousand partner enterprises involved in the work.

For the programs of the federal project “Professionality”, 1.4 million applications were submitted for the 2026 admissions campaign, about 300 thousand students have already been enrolled, which is 51 thousand more than in 2025. The most popular majors were Nursing, Tourism and Hospitality, and Vehicle Maintenance and Repair.

In the 2026 admissions campaign, 4.2 million applications were submitted to colleges and technical schools in Russia, of which 1.4 million were for programs of the federal project “Professionalism,” which is 380 thousand more than in 2025. About 300 thousand students were enrolled, exceeding last year's figure by 51 thousand.

MSLU Rector Irina Kraeva said that spelling errors on the Unified State Exam 2026 in the Russian language are caused by weakening of schoolchildren’s spelling vigilance, active communication in instant messengers and the predominance of clip reading. Participants often made mistakes in spelling roots, prefixes and suffixes, writing for example 'mentioned' or 'created'. To correct the situation, new approaches have been proposed: working with the morphemic structure of words, algorithmization of rules and a conscious attitude towards digital practices.

Over the past five years, the number of foreign students in Russian universities has increased by 25%, more than three quarters of them study on a paid basis, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Education and Science Konstantin Mogilevsky in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Participants in the Unified State Exam 2026 in the Russian language often made mistakes in the spelling of roots, prefixes, suffixes, endings and other spelling norms, including the spelling -n- and -nn-, “not” and “ni”, as well as continuous, separate and hyphenated spelling of words, according to the methodological recommendations of FIPI.

The head of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kravtsov, said that the Unified State Exam tasks are completely synchronized with the unified programs in which schoolchildren study, which eliminates questions about the inclusion or exclusion of topics in the exam.