Competition on foreign training is not always high. For example, in IREX it usually exceeds 10 persons for a place, and in the presidential program makes no more than three persons. Despite the fact that  some American and European organizations co-operate with regional high schools, the wireless telegraph (lecturers speaking another language inform on competitions or those who has already visited on training) operates. Organizers of the presidential program have found money for small movies in mass-media and "external" advertising. At last, thre is data of competitions on the Internet.

At the same time activity of funds in distribution of the information about free MBA courses or free education all the same leaves much to be desired. Besides not everybody dares to submit documents on competition among those  who knows about it and corresponds to criteria. Grants are calculated basically on representatives of small regions, and in a province there is  a stereotype that competition is a  simple formality, all the same money is everything and only students from local Univercities can count on them.
 

And is is partially true. The programs with open competition are only a top of an iceberg of the grants intended for international students. Representatives of other western organizations simply address to the heads of known high school, the state body or public organization with the request to generate the list of candidates for this or that trip. And who forms this list it is  easy to guess. Open competitions are avoided, for example, by the program «TASIS» for which account the author of these lines studied in Europe twice. In the first case it was a two-month study and visiting of editions of mass-media in Italy, in the second - three-week courses on the international journalism at first in Belgium, then in Italy. Candidates for both programs named by the heads of journalism faculty of the Moscow State University and the Union of journalists. The similar scheme of selection of candidates is in the program «Open world» of the American councils, counted on «potential young leaders» in an education sphere, the youth policy, public health services and other spheres. Candidates for a trip «the nominating organisations» (offer bodies of the federal and regional power, public organisations), and also those who already participated in the program. There are no accurate criteria of selection: it is possible to name a «the young leader» everybody. The main thing about it is convincingly to write about it in application form.