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Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University was visited on a working trip by Olivier Houzé, President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). This organization is engaged in identifying advanced technologies in the field of hydrocarbon field development and operation, as well as attracting managers and engineers of the oil and gas industry to work on projects worldwide — including graduates of specialized universities. The purpose of the visit was to develop mutually beneficial cooperation.

The admissions campaign to Russian universities has concluded. This year, Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University enrolled 2,355 new students. For the second year in a row, its applicants entered not bachelor’s programs, but programs of “Higher Engineering Education”, specifically designed to replace the now nearly abolished Bologna system.

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become a familiar phenomenon and has firmly entered everyday life. A bot can answer almost any question, explain a difficult topic, paint a portrait, create a music video, and even compose a song or a poem. Education has not remained untouched by this trend. In fact, neural networks first appeared in the mid-20th century and have been evolving for several decades.

In the first year of the oldest higher technical educational institution All 1944 budget places have been filled in Russia, and 68 more people will study at the expense of the university’s own funds. As its rector Vladimir Litvinenko noted, the main distinguishing feature of this summer was an increase in the level of competition, which suggests an increase in the popularity of engineering specialties among applicants and their parents.

As you know, the pilot project to improve the higher education system, which is currently being implemented within the walls of the first technical university of Russia, is based on a sharp increase in the time allowed to master fundamental knowledge and gain practical work experience in production. The upgraded curricula, in particular, assume that the first internship is mandatory at the end of the second semester.

A delegation from the Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University paid a working visit to the Belarusian city of Polotsk, where it held a number of meetings with representatives of the local business and scientific and educational community. The parties discussed the most promising areas of co-operation, including academic exchange of students and teachers, as well as the creation of needle coke production at the Naftan Refinery using the technology developed by the scientists of the Russian university.

Last spring, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the improvement of the higher education system, the aim of which is to qualitatively improve the process of personnel training for the long-term needs of various sectors of the national economy. One of the six participants of the pilot project was the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University, whose first-year students are already studying under the new curricula as part of the transition to basic higher engineering education.

Vladimir Litvinenko, Rector of Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University, stated the need to increase the differentiation of monthly payments to students and teachers. He called encouragement of those who honorably show themselves in their work and extracurricular activities, including material, an integral part of the university’s ideology. Forpost decided to find out the details of the innovations and understand their conceptual meaning.

One of the conceptual features of the process of modernization of higher technical education in Russia is a sharp increase in the time allocated for industrial practice. Whereas in the case of bachelors it is conducted only once during the entire period of study, at the end of the third year, for two to three weeks, the modified curricula envision an increase in its duration to a total of 10 months.

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