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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.

One of the problems hindering the reduction of the shortage of personnel in the real sector of the economy, he called the excessive ”digitalization” of the consciousness of young people.

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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Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University

The Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University continues to implement a pilot project to improve the system of personnel training for the national economy. One of its characteristic features is the enrollment of students exclusively in the specialties of basic higher education with a study period of 5.5 years. In other words, bachelor’s degree is no longer included in the university curricula.