Manuel Antonio Barrantes: «They have a very high education standard here»

On February 17, Manuel Antonio Barrantes, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Costa Rica in The Russian Federation, visited RosNOU.

Mr. Barrantes and Vladimir A. Zernov, the rector of RosNOU, discussed the prospects of cooperation between Russia and Costa Rica in the education sphere and the possibility of mutually beneficial ties between Russian and Costa Rican universities. In particular, the ambassador expressed his willingness to promote cooperation between RosNOU and higher education institutions of Costa Rica.

After the meeting with the RosNOU rector Manuel Antonio Barrantes met with the students and professors from the RosNOU Department of Humanities and Foreign Languages and the Department of Business Technologies in Tourist and Travel Industry. He spoke about Costa Rica, its political system, culture, traditions, and answered numerous questions of those present at the meeting.

The ambassador got a remarkable impression of the University. He shared his impressions with the reporter of the RosNOU editorial site during an express-interview:

Q - Is it for the first time that you meet RosNOU students?

A - No, I have an opportunity of meeting them quite often when they come to our embassy for their practical training. By the way, at the moment two of RosNOU students are having such training at the Embassy. They are successfully working there.

Q - What is your impression about Russian young people?

A - I believe students of this University are eager to learn and discover something new, they are open-minded and inquisitive. I think this University provides a very high standard of education, they have highly professional teaching staff here, quite fastidious. The requirements are very strict and students strive for success.

So the Costa Rican ambassador got acquainted with RosNOU and he introduced us to Costa Rica.