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On Tuesday, March 5, in the public reception room of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, Rector of Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko, who is also a proxy of the head of state, held a meeting with students of Izhora College and representatives of the Youth Parliament of St. Petersburg. He recalled that during his address to the Federal Assembly on March 1, Vladimir Putin emphasized the issues of science and education, and stated the need to take additional measures to ensure that ”today’s teenagers become professionals in their field”.

Etienne Ségda is a student at Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. He comes from a small country in West Africa called Burkina Faso. It ranks only 206th in terms of GDP, although it is a major exporter of gold, marble and manganese. Natural resource extraction is done mostly by foreigners.

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.

The number of people who left Russia after the Civil War of 1917 reaches 2.5 million. For the most part, they were military, scientists, doctors, teachers, engineers, in general, intellectuals - creative, humanitarian and technical. A year later, the Soviet authorities faced a personnel famine and announced an amnesty for ”persons who had participated as ordinary soldiers in White Guard organizations.” All those who had been ”deceived or forcibly drawn into the struggle against Soviet power” were forgiven. The state needed educated people capable of raising the ruined industry.

On Wednesday, February 28, Rector of Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko, who is also a proxy for Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, held a meeting with students of St. Petersburg State Agrarian University, which is located in Pushkin. The topic of the meeting was ”State policy in the field of engineering education”.

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.

25 school principals from different Russian regions received incentive grants of 50 and 100 thousand rubles for popularization of engineering education and active cooperation with the Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University, where a pilot project on modernization of the system of personnel training for the national economy is being implemented today. The ceremony was held within the framework of the All-Russian methodological seminar ”New Approaches to Secondary Education in the Interest of Forming the Country’s Technological Leadership”.

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Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University

The spring semester has begun in Russian higher education institutions. The corridors and classrooms of Russian universities are gradually beginning to fill up with young people who have returned to their alma mater after a short vacation. Many of them took advantage of the pause in classes to fly to their native lands and meet with friends and relatives. And someone even decided to combine pleasant with useful and went to the school where he used to study.