Science and technics

The Celestial Empire promptly coped with the second wave of the epidemic and is returning to its previous way of life. How much has it changed? Has unemployment risen? And has the pandemic affected the level of cooperation between scientists from Russia and China? These and other questions Forpost.ru addressed to Xiaowei Feng, a researcher at the State Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining of the University of Mining and Technology, located in Xuzhou City.

The Mining University’s journal, which has turned 113 years old this year, is now recognised internationally.

Socrates, arguably the world’s most known philosopher, was executed by poisoning - he drank a mixture containing poison hemlock. At that time death penalty alongside with ostracism, a procedure in which any citizen of ancient Athens could be expelled from the state, were among the most popular methods of punishment. If the majority voted in favour of the sentence, a person had no other choice but to leave or die. Quite often, people who ended up in exile or sentenced to death were later acknowledged as the national pride. There is a chance something similar is happening with hydrocarbons today.

Most Russian educational institutions have bravely reported on a successful transition to online learning. However, reality turned out to be slightly less glowing than officials and heads of educational institutions imagined. Forpost-sz.ru decided to look into the problems that handicap efficient remote communication between teachers and students; whether or not will this format muscle out traditional lectures and classes after the pandemic, and who really has benefited from the forced flight into the digital space.

In 2012, when oil prices were at historic highs, Aberdeen managed to surpass London, ranking first in the number of multimillionaires per 100.000 residents over the UK.

The global pace of digitalisation is enormous, but European post-graduates in mining do not lag behind the trend - as of now, the most demanded innovative solutions in the EU are the ones that simplify work processes through the use of information technologies.

The network of foreign partner universities of Russian scientific community is set to increase further.

This September, a new academic year has begun and, with the start of the new school year, traditional discussions on the role of education and universities in Russia have once again resumed.

A number of Finnish universities is keen on cooperating with higher education institutions of St. Petersburg. Why would they do so?