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Almost a year after the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed on May 12, 2023 a decree on improving the system of higher education, the purpose of which is to ”qualitatively improve the process of personnel training to meet the long-term needs of various sectors of the national economy”, a seminar-meeting ”Personnel support of technological sovereignty” was held in Almetyevsk, in the south-east of the Republic of Tatarstan.

SCImago research group has updated its influential annual international ranking of scientific journals. The publication of St. Petersburg Mining University ’Journal of Mining Institute’ has become the best of 566 Russian journals indexed by the world’s leading Scopus database. It ranks first in the country in all three of its subject areas - geology, geotechnology and economics. In the latter two, ’Journal of Mining Institute’ became the only journal with Russian jurisdiction to make it into the first quartile.

Rectors Vladimir Litvinenko of the Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University and Hanoi University of Mining and Geology Hai Tran Thanh signed an agreement on international co-operation. In particular, the parties agreed to join efforts in such areas as training competent personnel for the mineral resources sector of the two countries, increasing academic mobility, increasing publication activity and a number of others.

Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University continues to implement a pilot project to improve the higher education system. It is aimed at improving the quality of engineering personnel training for the real sector of the national economy, which is impossible without increasing students’ motivation to build their future careers in production.

In the nineties and noughties, China literally flooded the world market with cheap goods. However, while twenty years ago their Abibas sneakers were laughed at, nowadays ”made in China” products often meet the highest quality standards. From a country with reverse engineering, the Celestial Empire has become a global leader in such areas as electronics manufacturing, automotive industry, artificial intelligence and computer technology.

In early April, a representative delegation from St. Petersburg Mining University paid a working visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe. Forpost has already written about the part of the trip that was devoted to familiarizing with the mining industry of this southern African country. Today - a detailed story about its higher education system.

Despite the fact that chemistry begins to be studied in the eighth grade and is indispensable in dozens of industries that are crucial for the economy, if an ordinary Russian is asked to name the names of great Russian chemists, the vast majority will limit themselves to Lomonosov and Mendeleev. Only a small part would add a third name - Academician Nikolai Kurnakov.

Russia is often referred to as a raw material country, giving this concept a negative meaning. They say that the subsoil is rich in minerals, but there are problems with value chains.

The oldest technical university in Russia took the sixth place in the international rating of the British agency QS. On Wednesday, April 10, it became known that Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Petersburg Mining University for the eighth time in a row entered the top 20 of the World University Ranking by Subject in the direction of ”Mineral & Mining Engineering” (Mineral & Mining Engineering).This year it took the sixth place in the world, in the first half-dozen also three Australian universities, Colorado School of Mines and Canadian McGill University.

In early April, a representative delegation from St. Petersburg Mining University paid a working visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe. The main objectives of the visit were to get acquainted with the higher education system of this South African state, the state of affairs in the field of geological exploration and subsoil use, and to identify practical ways of cooperation in the format of a roadmap for the medium term.