The introduction of a special unified state exam for applicants to pedagogical universities will only further discourage the few who already want to enroll in this field. The new order of the Ministry of Education was criticized by the Education Ombudsman Emmett Wolodarsky in an interview with NSN. "The ministry came out of the fact that if a candidate enters the field of pedagogy and chooses, for example, to major in chemistry, then he must not take social studies as a subject. The logic is absolutely correct, but now, when the pedagogical field is not one of the popular ones, it may scare the already small number of people who choose the teaching professions," the expert noted. The ministry explained the tightening of acceptance by the need for future teachers to "know in depth what they will learn". According to Volodarsky, increasing the number of entrants to teacher training universities can only be done by raising the prestige of the profession, which can be achieved by providing material and social protection to teachers.

The introduction of a special unified state exam for applicants to pedagogical universities will only further discourage the few who already want to enroll in this field. The new order of the Ministry of Education was criticized by the Education Ombudsman Emmett Wolodarsky in an interview with NSN. "The ministry came out of the fact that if a candidate enters the field of pedagogy and chooses, for example, to major in chemistry, then he must not take social studies as a subject. The logic is absolutely correct, but now, when the pedagogical field is not one of the popular ones, it may scare the already small number of people who choose the teaching professions," the expert noted. The ministry explained the tightening of acceptance by the need for future teachers to "know in depth what they will learn". According to Volodarsky, increasing the number of entrants to teacher training universities can only be done by raising the prestige of the profession, which can be achieved by providing material and social protection to teachers.